Angela Ruzzo
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read

The Republicans would say it’s your fault you broke your hip by practicing running. But what will they tell my friend who was driving down the street, slightly below the speed limit, minding his own business, when a woman with a lengthy record of bad driving, including a DUI, turned left across the traffic and hit him, which caused him to lose his left leg, lose his job, lose his group health insurance, and lose his home? His right leg was so badly broken that it will never bear his full weight again and is held together with a steel rod and screws. The woman who hit him will get a $500 traffic fine — and she had no car insurance and no job so he can’t sue her. His medical bills have so far exceeded $1 million. If he loses his ACA plan, he will die, very quickly.

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