Poor Republicans would rather take welfare than lay down and die. PROOF!

[LJ_Reloaded]

Remember when I said that when their backs are to the wall and they can't afford to save their sick kid, Republicans would take the very welfare that they hate?

Welp, folks

I was partially right. Republicans, at least, won't give their own lives and take one for the Capitalist team.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/08/health/obamacare-cancer-survivor/index.html

Hartford, Wisconsin (CNN)Tiffany Koehler was raised in foster care, is biracial, a veteran and a cancer survivor.

She also is a former candidate for the Wisconsin state legislature. She ran as a Republican and once was anti-Obamacare. Today she says she supports it -- mostly.
Her biggest objection remains the mandate that individuals must obtain health insurance coverage. "We all want to thrive," said Koehler, "and make America great again, as (President Donald Trump) says, but we can't do that if we're struggling to pay bills."

"People have to be able to get to their doctors. People have to be able to get their medicine," said Koehler, "and out of any country in the world we should be doing it."

Two years ago, after losing her job, she did something she always had wanted to do; she ran for a seat in the Wisconsin State Assembly. She lost, and in the aftermath of that disappointment, got some awful news -- she had cancer. Koehler had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

"I was Stage 4. My prognosis was poor. I wasn't supposed to survive," she said.

When she lost her job she got health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace. But she soon found that the $400 monthly bill was too high for someone who was unemployed.

So she dropped Obamacare and opted for Medicaid, under Wisconsin's BadgerCare Plus program. It's the only state in the US to adopt federal guidelines for Medicaid expansion but not accept federal money.

Koehler, recently was diagnosed with a thyroid condition possibly related to her cancer and still has three years of monitoring before she can be declared cancer free. In all her care and treatment so far has cost more than $1 million.

She has a message for Congress and President Trump as they press ahead with repealing President Obama's signature legislation. "They can be celebratory in Washington" but, she said, "it's going to have real-life implications and they have to realize that."

Natural selection and blaming the poor is for all the other schmucks out there. When it's your ass that's on the line, guess what, that tune changes quick, don't it!

Nothin' like a COME TO JESUS moment to effect a change of heart