Democrat #MIsen candidate attacks cancer victim, TV stations, over #Obamacare ad

Rep. Gary Peters
Despicable.

So Obamacare and the lies its proponents have repeatedly told about it has become so toxic for Democrats in an election yearΒ that a Michigan US Senate candidateΒ – who is currently a representative in the US House – is not only trying to silence a cancer victim, but also is threatening a TV station’s licenses for running her an ad that features her story:

Julie Boonstra, a cancer patient who was kicked of off her health plan due to Obamacare, lashed out at Rep. Gary Peters (D., Mich.) on Saturday after lawyers for his campaign demanded that Michigan broadcasters cease airing ads featuring her story.

Boonstra, a Michigan resident, was diagnosed with leukemia five years ago. She was recently kicked off of her healthcare plan due to regulations passed as part of President Barack Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which Peters voted in favor of.

After relating her story publicly in an ad produced by the advocacy group Americans for Prosperity (AFP), PetersΒ dispatched lawyersΒ to prevent the spot from running on local television stations.

Boonstra, who says she is now struggling to pay out of pocket for her rising healthcare costs, told theΒ Washington Free BeaconΒ she is stunned by Peters’ efforts to censor her story.

β€œI’m appalled. I’m appalled as a mom, as a woman, and as a cancer patient, as someone living with cancer … who has stood before this nation to say, β€˜I cannot afford that out of pocket expense,’” said Boonstra, who said she was given a 20 percent chance of surviving her disease. β€œAs a Michigan resident, to silence my voice, I’m absolutely appalled.”

Peters, who is running for a seat in the Senate, instructed his legal council earlier this week to demand that stations stop running the AFP ad until additional evidence of the cancer victim’s claims could be produced.

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Boonstra attempted to confront the congressman at his door, but he did not answer when she knocked.

β€œI just went up to his house and knocked on his door,” Boonstra recalled. β€œI would like to meet with him, but he did not answer. I know someone was home, so I left a letter there for him.”

Boonstra wrote in her letter, β€œI don’t understand why you’re trying to silence my voice. I have every right to speak out and don’t understand why you’re doing this.”

A spokesman for the Peters campaign did not respond to a request for comment on the matter.

The Washington Examiner has more:

Media organizations investigating the ad’s claims note that Boonstra was able to find comparable new insurance under the law; the Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” blogΒ gave the adΒ “two Pinocchios” (as compared toΒ four for President Obama’s claimΒ that people could keep their insurance under the law).

But Boonstra, in response,Β told the local Dexter LeaderΒ newspaper that though she has no idea whether she will break even with her new plan, as the fact-checkers claim, the uncertainty of having to restructure her health care while coping with a deadly disease is damage enough.

“People are asking me for the numbers and I don’t know those answers — that’s the heartbreak of all of this. It’s the uncertainty of not having those numbers that I have an issue with, because I always knew what I was paying and now I don’t, and I haven’t gone through the tests or seen my specialist yet,” she said.

“People don’t have that certainty — they don’t have the stability of knowing every month what they’re going to be paying now and it’s the ability to actually have that sum of money to pay. People don’t have these out-of -pocket expense moneys.”

And that’s the issue. She was on a plan that she liked, that she felt could help save her life, and then it was cancelled because of Obamacare – which Peters voted for. Β That she got to keep her doctor under the “new” plan, as the fact checkers note, isn’t the point of the ad. Will she get the exact same coverage? What about prescriptions? These are uncertainties that no one should have to go through, let alone someone in an already extremely stressful situation who is facing a life-threatening disease who knew exactly what she was getting with the plan she was on – which she wanted to keep.

Rep. Peters is a disgusting bully for trying to silence Boonstra and for using government threats in an attempt to get TV stations to stop running an ad he doesn’t like. Β  If you agree, make sure to tweet him and politely – but firmly – tell him so.

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