As Khizr Khan said this sunday morning on CNN:
I honestly couldn't agree anymore with this quote. Everything Oath2order said in his long post is just scratching the surface of why I support democrats and want Hillary as president. If you're agreeing with the things Donald Trump says,
then you haven't read into enough about the election to know why Hillary is the better choice.
She has had mistakes, nobody is perfect. I am a
Type 1 diabetic. If Mr. Trump gets elected, the first thing he wants to do is eliminate the affordable care act. With a republican congress, theres a very high chance that he will try to get rid of it. Why do they want it gone? Because the republicans think its all socialism when its actually helping people with me with health conditions that are uncurable.
If you have read about this history of
Medicare, its the system that makes retirement possible for the elderly. In the 1930's medicare didn't exist and elderly relied on their sons and daughters to take care of them. The life expectancy for the elderly was
61 for white americans and
48 for african americans.
Now, enter Obama with the affordable care act almost 80 years later. If you were diagnosed with cancer as an elderly back then, you wouldn't be able to afford to get treatment for since there wasn't affordable insurance. Instead, people would just go to the hospital and be hospitalized, costing over
100,000 dollars in debt. They would get treatment, but they wouldn't be able to afford it and just be forever in debt, causing distress to doctors as well. With the affordable health care act, you would be able to afford these things.
Now enter Hillary clinton. Now, if a
Child living in poverty wasn't to get the care they needed, they wouldn't be in good condition.
Hillary Clinton recognized this and set up something called "SCHIP". Standing for "State Children's Health Care Program". Which helps children and families give their child the care it needs.
She got care for over 6 million kids. If you don't believe me that hillary clinton has the credit for inventing this, click this website:
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/giving-hillary-credit-for-schip/
Now let me tell you my story now that i've told you everything. I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2012, new years eve at the age of 11 and my family is lower middle class. If it weren't for SCHIP and the affordable care act, my parents wouldn't be able to afford to get me diagnosed, nor be able to take me to get check ups, get shots, and everything thats needed for that. Without the affordable health care act and medicare/medicaid, my family wouldn't be able to afford a private healthcare plan. Even after my family got me diagnosed they still get me insulin to keep me
ALIVE with the afforable care act.
There are people in poverty who can't even afford to get insulin without the care act when it should be for free.
So if Medicare, SCHIP, and the Affordable health care act never happened, I would probably either-
A: Cause my family to be in over +100,000 dollars in debt because we couldn't afford to get me the basic materials to keep me alive
or B: Eventually die because I wouldn't have the care I needed.
So there you go. Thats why I have to support democrats and in the time now more than ever do I support Hillary Clinton. You have pigs like Donald Trump who wants to abolish the affordable care act just because he thinks the entire thing is "socialism".
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Oh and before I forget, you can read about Medicare in this website:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/health/medicare-past-present-and-future/16235/