She voted for Trump. Now she fears losing the Obamacare plan that saved her life.

[Cattledog]

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-obamacare-trump-voter-20170224-story.html

Kathy Watson was anxious about her health coverage even before she woke up gasping for breath last month and drove herself to the emergency room with a flare-up in her heart condition.

After struggling for years without insurance, the 55-year-old former small-business owner — who has battled diabetes, high blood pressure and two cancers — credits Obamacare with saving her life.


Watson also voted for Donald Trump, believing the businessman would bring change. She dismissed his campaign pledges to scrap the Affordable Care Act as bluster.

Now, as she watches the new president push to kill the law that provided her with a critical lifeline, Watson finds herself among many Trump supporters who must reconcile their votes with worries about the future of their healthcare.

[toddwv]

1. I truly feel for her

but what a dumbass.

Here's hoping she gets the care that she needs.

[Drahthaardogs]

36. I don't. She decided to lay with a dog and now regrets fleas.

Your vote has a consequence. Sorry you missed thst

[liquid diamond]

63. I don't. I hope she and her kind suffer.

[Zorro]

65. Gonna be a lot fewer Republican voters this next election cycle

[liquid diamond]

67. Good.

I'm tired of these stupid racist whites fucking up other people's lives.

[marybourg]

2. Well, he certainly brought change.

Our democracy may never be the same again.

And, oh yea, he said he was going to "change" your insurance into no insurance. But you voted for him anyway.

[kimbutgar]

3. Stupid is as stupid does

[Vinca]

4. I guess she voted for the freedom to die.

[Jim Beard]

5. I know several more just like her. Good looking Blue Heeler!

[LonePirate]

6. That's like someone tying to pet a rattlesnake and then being surprised when they are bitten.

[TBA]

10. Best analogy I've heard in awhile.

[Generic Other]

46. THE SNAKE

[StarryNite]

50. EXACTLY!!!

This song so often comes to mind for me! She knew he was a snake, what the hell did she think was going to happen???

[liberalmuse]

7. I'm saving my sympathy...

for people who are being targeted by the racists who voted for Trump. I swear to God people like this have not been paying attention to what Republicans have been doing since the 80's and now they're surprised? They could care less when the Republicans screw others, but when its them, they sob the loudest.

And Donald Trump has been a colossal asshole since the sperm hit the egg. There was no mystery about who he is and what depths he'll stoop to.

Edit: biology

[narnian60]

24. +1

[bunnies]

8. These fucking people infuriate me.

She voted for this. Now it's "poor me, I got what I voted for".

Cry me a fucking river. We ALL got what YOU voted for.

[msanthrope]

9. I hope she's still alive to vote Democratic in 2018. nt

[COLGATE4]

15. If she's alive in 2018 you can bet your bottom dollar

that she'll vote for the Rethugs again. You can't fix stupid.

[trc]

30. Truth. n/t

[jaysunb]

44. +1 n/t

[Hoyt]

11. My guess is that she thought Trump would take care of ignorant white wingers like her.

[nadine_mn]

58. you know like Jim Crow laws, white folks get grandfathered

in and don't lose anything - whereas everyone else gets screwed over.

Trump never backed away from his claim that "obamacare was a disaster" so why is she surprised?

[orwell]

12. All I can say is...

[Initech]

14. I'll add a few more:

[GaYellowDawg]

13. I wonder how she feels about email servers now?

I'll bet she really regrets she has but one life to give for Republican lies.

[LisaL]

16. Well, she is gonna get her change. Probably not the change she wanted, but

change she is gonna get.

[dalton99a]

17. So she voted for a Russian traitor who had repeatedly vowed to kill her.

[LenaBaby61]

29. So she voted for a Russian traitor who had repeatedly vowed to kill her.

And other people too with that selfish and ignorant vote of hers.

So NO I feel NO pity for her. She surely didn't feel any for me or for those of us who might lose their health care under THEIR Illegitimate president

She and those like her really need to go have several seats.

[flying-skeleton]

18. This Watson lady ....

Tell her to go to hell.
Only now that her life in in danger, she is afraid. She voted for the ShitGibbon so obviously she likes a ton of other stuff about the ShitGibbon. So again, tell her to F off.

[Ilsa]

19. It's not as if 45 lied to her during the campaign about this.

She shouldn't be surprised that if congress got rid of her health insurance, 45 would sign it.

[Kimchijeon]

20. I know people just like her - they are connecting the dots slowly

But I'm sure they will keep voting against their own best interests, ultimately.
I'm afraid the brainwashing of hate and fear against democrats has gone on for too long. I wish people would just wake up.

[krispos42]

21. You voted to sacrifice yourself for

My only sympathy is for your offspring that must live with the consequences of your choice.

Unless they also voted for ^^^^^. Then zero cares given.

Sorry. Hope your sacrifice was worth it.

[sheshe2]

22. Nope, sorry.

[Horse with no Name]

23. Just goes to show that stupidity can kill

Darwin Award winner here....

[Retrograde]

25. How did she vote for Congress?

Trump couldn't do much without a GOP majority in the House and Senate to rubberstamp his "ideas". If she voted Republican for those - well, tough. I and the millions more who voted Democratic are living with the effects of her shortsightedness/lack of analysis/blinkered existence/stupidity.

[LenaBaby61]

26. SORRY ....

But I don't feel sorry for people like her one bit.

I ONLY feel for those who voted against him that will be losing their health care and in some cases unfortunately their LIVES.

[lpbk2713]

54. Deplorable.

But she willingly put her own head in the noose.

[pansypoo53219]

27. made her bed. idiot.

[BigBoss]

28. No sympathy

None! She voted for it now she can suffer the consequences. Fuck her and people like her.

[spanone]

31. 'She dismissed his campaign pledges to scrap the Affordable Care Act as bluster'

really? after republicans voted how many goddamn times to repeal it? really?

[putitinD]

32. too stupid to live!

[Charles Bukowski]

33. "But I thought only the Muslims, Mexicans, and homersexuals were gunna be

affected" - this lady.

You thought wrong, asshole.

[Luciferous]

34. I don't have sympathy for people who vote against their own best interests.

[Tikki]

35. Someone posted here earlier that these trump voter's are GULLIBLE...like this Watson woman...

Actually of all the words we can use to describe these people...calling them GULLIBLE would
make them squirm the most.

The word GULLIBLE in itself shows more than a lack of intelligence..it shows a LACK OF POWER on their part.
Something they thought they had by voting for trump.

Tikki

[aquamarina]

37. I have absolutely no

Sympathy or pity for this woman. I consider my brother to be a rabid conservative but even he was smart enough not to vote for 45. He would never vote for a democrat so he simply left it blank. As much as I abhor his politics I respect him for being to admit Trump would be a horrible president.

[renate]

38. this comment sums up pretty well how I feel

" I do not wish anyone ill but at some point I grow weary of constantly bailing out the failed policies of the GOP and conservatives only to then be blamed for them later." (by a commenter named wnovin)

We liberals keep on trying to do right by everyone, including right-wingers, and they almost always end up resenting us for it. It does get a little old, caring about people who look down on us and call us bleeding hearts. Caring about others is what makes us liberals, so I'm going to keep on doing it, but... yeah. It's getting old.

[NightWatcher]

39. Dumbass. Her vote has and will hurt thousands of people. It should hurt her too

[procon]

40. Reminds me of an old song...

"Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven's sake
Take me in, tender woman," sighed the snake

"I saved you," cried the woman
"And you've bitten me, but why?
You know your bite is poisonous and now I'm going to die"

"Oh shut up, silly woman," said the reptile with a grin
"You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in
"Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven's sake
Take me in, tender woman," sighed the snake

[lester94111]

41. Cry Me A River

Is she dead yet?

[benld74]

42. Prayers to her

Nothing else can assist from my end

[hatrack]

43. Blinking back tears here. Really.

Actually, no, fresh out of Give-A-Fuck for the willfully stupid - like this woman.

If she wants to kill herself, that's her problem.

If she wants to make sure that her actions kill others at the same time, then fuck her. Ignorant fucking goober.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

45. sorry for her but proof "Obamacare" could not cure stupid...

[NNadir]

47. What "change" was she looking for? Klansmen on the NSC? She certainly wasn't...

...looking for changes like an increase in compassion.

Unlike the majority of the people she hurt with her racist attitude, she deserves what she's going to get.

[malaise]

48. No sympathy here

Fools die for want of wisdom

[StarryNite]

49. Maybe tRump will attend her funeral

[meadowlander]

51. Elections have consequences.

[Linc13]

52. I lost count

of how many fucks I don't give for her and people like her.

[demosincebirth]

53. Dems didn't do anything to inform people that Obamacare is ACA.

[yardwork]

61. Yes, we did. People didn't want to hear.

[demosincebirth]

69. Nope.

[BannonsLiver]

71. Horseshit fantasy land stuff right there

Pass some of that shit over here.

[tblue37]

55. Idiot stick. nt

[tblue37]

56. Notice she still supports Trump, so obviously she is not educable:

Watson, a proud, salty woman who was uninsurable a few years ago, isn’t ready to renounce Trump.

[Zambero]

60. Yes, there is that change thing she espouses

In this instance, changing from alive to dead.

[Hokie]

57. How stupid is this quote?

She dismissed his campaign pledges to scrap the Affordable Care Act as bluster.

Not to mention he is misogynist pig. How stupid can one person be?

[NastyRiffraff]

59. I'm hearing about more and more of these idiots

They didn't think Dump would REALLY cut off their healthcare. He was just--they dunno--rallying the crowd. Or something.

What the HELL did they think he meant? I hate these people.

[Solly Mack]

62. I am probably wrong to think this

but I see all the people who didn't vote for Trump, who are in the same boat as Ms Watson, and can't help but think the people like Ms Watson, who did vote for Trump - even though he repeatedly said he would repeal the ACA - have possibly killed not just themselves but non-Trump voters as well.

You see, it would be one thing if it was only the lives of the people who voted for Trump - they got exactly what they voted for even if it is a rude awakening now.....but they are also killing the people who didn't vote for Trump.

It wasn't just their lives they were playing with. They played with the lives of other people. Their choice to vote for Trump could kill people who didn't vote for Trump.

So, while I do hate what is happening to those people who voted against their own best interests, I can't help but feel that those same people are also partially responsible for any deaths of the people who didn't vote for Trump and who need the ACA as much as Ms Watson does.

The blame also goes to Trump and the GOP, as well as Trump voters.

Ms Watson, your vote didn't just possibly kill you - it could potentially kill many others.

Why didn't you consider that?

In the article, Ms Watson speaks in terms of her not being someone who wants something for nothing, as if to separate herself from others in need by using words to suggest some people are freeloaders (something for nothing), and that is she is different (therefore more deserving). Even now, with everything she now understands, she still thinks in those terms.

[Demonaut]

64. I'm sorry but she made her bed

[Tatiana]

66. Sad! But she got what she voted for. n/t

[Danascot]

68. At least once a day

I'm reminded of the fable of the frog and the scorpion.

[BannonsLiver]

70. Here's all the shits I give:

[akbacchus_BC]

72. I have no sympathy for any orange guy supporter. They should have known

he was an asshole!

[ecstatic]

73. Hmm, did she put racism / xenophobia over common sense?

I took time to read the entire article and now I'm shaking my head in disbelief at how someone her age with such a long list of preexisting conditions could vote for Trump. At this point, I can't feel any empathy for someone that stupid (hateful?). Sorry, I can't. I'm done.