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"Patrick McHenry Confronted About Obamacare At Town Hall (WATCH)"
Patrick McHenry Confronted About Obamacare At Town Hall (WATCH)The Huffington Post | By Arthur Delaney
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/08/patrick-mchenry_n_3726970.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
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Several North Carolinians attended a town hall held by Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) in Swannanoa to confront McHenry about Obamacare on Wednesday, including a mother grieving the death of her son.
During a live interview with WLOS-TV reporter Kimberly King before the event, Leslie Boyd, of Asheville, said her son might still be alive had the health care law's protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions been in place sooner.
"My son had a pre-existing condition, a birth defect," Boyd said, holding a framed photo of her dead son. "And without that birth defect he probably would have been able to get insurance. But that birth defect prevented him from getting insurance and without it he could not get the care he needed. And so he got colon cancer and they caught it after it had already spread, so he died."
The Affordable Care Act prohibits the health insurance industry from discriminating against the sick starting in 2014.
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