'Without the Affordable Care Act, today I would be bankrupt or dead.'
Twelve Years Later, Surviving Cancer, and Attacks on the Affordable Care Act
The AFL-CIO sent me to Arkansas as a campaign staffer in 2009, to learn how to do communications work and push for labor law and health care reform under the first unified Democratic federal government in a generation. The day after my first chemotherapy treatment, while I recovered on my couch and contemplated how bad things could get, Republicans in the US House voted to repeal the ACA. I was so drained.
Ordinary people can be capable of extraordinary things when our very existence is at stake. There was a whole generation of Americans that wouldn’t have been alive prior to the ACA. We refused to be quiet, we refused to be ignored; we protested, we rallied, we attended town halls, we bared our private wounds in public in order to be finally seen. At last in a late night vote that summer, I watched John McCain answer our cry and put a stop to repeal in the Senate.
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