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Tony_FLADEM

(3,023 posts)
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 05:27 PM Oct 2012

Obamacare is the reason reader will vote Democrat

I didn’t always vote as a Democrat. I am a retired Navy combat veteran. My extended family is large. Its members work regularly and hard. Many are veterans. Some own businesses or are self-employed. Some are wealthy. Most are not. We all pay taxes. We don’t all understand our need to protect what we have.

Without Social Security, Medicare, the VA and Medicaid there would be no health care available to most of the elderly and working poor.

Without Obamacare, insurance companies will commonly deny health coverage. With Obamacare these laws protect a three-year-old with stomach cancer, a 33-year-old with a recently removed brain tumor, a 49-year-old with an immune disease, and an 83 year old with stage four congestive heart failure. Do you know that if Romney block grants Medicaid to the states two-thirds of the elderly could lose nursing home care? Mitt Romney can’t be trusted to protect us. He said so himself. The neutral fact checkers disagree with what he says about Obamacare. He will repeal this great health law and eliminate Medicaid and Medicare, as we know them.


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