Tell your friends, too
by Rabecca Gainey—Kentucky
A woman tonight told me she was very concerned with health care. A few years ago she fell and broke her ankle and calf. As a result she’d had several surgeries and now has a metal rod in her leg and foot. Despite being unable to work, she’d been denied unemployment and disability benefits, often depending on her neighbors for food because she receives less than $40 dollars a week in food stamps.
On top of all this she said she was going through a divorce, and would lose the health insurance she’s had up to now through her ex-husband’s job. She told me she had been raised Republican and voted the party line for many, many years, but if Steve Beshear, the labor-endorsed candidate for governor, had a plan to make health care more affordable and accessible than she would definitely vote for him—and tell all her friends to vote for him too.
Paid for by AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education Treasury Fund.
Tags: Health Care, unemployment
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