Read This Heartfelt Letter From the Daughter of Uninsurable Mother With Breast Cancer

To Tea Party Senator Mike Lee

Dear Sen. Lee,

I’m writing to introduce you to this lovely lady – my mother and your constituent.

Angie_Welling She’s a 16-year breast cancer survivor and a true member of the middle class. She has worked hard her entire life, having more jobs than I – or even she – can count. (I know because we tried one time.) She’s always followed the rules, paid her taxes, volunteered her time and given what disposable income she could spare to people and causes that make her country and state, and yours, a better place.

She’s raised three wonderful children (if I do say so myself!) who are also hard-working and contributing members of society. None of us are wealthy, but we are financially stable. And we, too, follow her example to share what we have with others.

Mom is also – and I’m sure you saw this coming – uninsured. And uninsurable. Her “pre-existing condition” (the cancer that took her right breast) prevents her from obtaining health insurance.

About once a week, Mom wakes up in the middle of the night, choking and gagging. She usually spends the rest of the night vomiting, and the entire next day recuperating. She thinks she has something called a hiatal hernia, but isn’t sure because the diagnostic tests are too expensive. And forget about treatment.

(My grandma had a hiatal hernia. As a federal government retiree, her insurance covered surgery. I suspect yours would do the same, if you were similarly afflicted with this unpleasant condition.)

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