Trump blocks woman with stage 4 cancer on Twitter after she criticized his latest health care plan

[DesertRat]

On Wednesday morning, President Trump tweeted out his support for the so-called Graham-Cassidy health care bill that would allow insurers to discriminate against people with preexisting conditions and could cause tens of millions to lose coverage.

In the hours before Trump posted that tweet, his account blocked a woman with stage 4 cancer who has spoken out about the dangers of Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare.

Packard, who has Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, has regularly been tweeting at Trump about health care and other topics at least since the election. The day before she was blocked, she put the president on blast for supporting a bill that would jeopardize the lives of people like her who rely on Obamacare exchanges for coverage.

As ThinkProgress detailed earlier this week, under Graham-Cassidy, a 40-year-old diagnosed with metastatic cancer “could expect to pay a $140,510 surcharge on their annual health premium, effectively making many families choose between being bankrupted by their insurance company or being bankrupted by their hospital bills.” Packard is 41.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-blocks-laura-packard-after-she-criticized-trumpcare-graham-cassidy-heller-adb4d69020c5/

[spanone]

1. God forbid he hear the truth.....

a pathetic man

[DesertRat]

2. President Snowflake

[Doreen]

3. Our "president" truly cares.

About himself.

[PA Democrat]

4. Heartless bastards don't like being exposed.

[Stuart G]

5. k and r.....let this go viral..all over the world..so, everyone who has had cancer or

knows someone who had cancer can see this. Everyone needs to know....Perhaps he owes her an apology??

[Bengus81]

6. Wear it like a BADGE and let everyone see what that POS is.............

[MyOwnPeace]

7. Both Orange Cheat-o AND

Republicans -

HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO YOUR FELLOW AMERICANS?

Have you no heart/soul?

I ache for what we have come to be (and the "ache" probably won't be covered under "TrumpCare&quot .


(TrumpCare - now THERE'S an oxymoron!)

((yeah, I snickered when I typed the "moron" part!!))

[Dave Starsky]

8. Every day, I am freshly amazed that we have come to this.

Because every day, it gets worse.

I have this fantasy that one day I could go back in time, even for 10 minutes, and warn someone in power that this was going to happen. I would beg this person to please, please do something about it. (I'm thinking maybe Thomas Jefferson would be a good candidate for this.)

In order to prove to this person that I really am the future, I would take along my smartphone and digital watch to show them the technological wonders we have available to us in the 21st century. I would tell this person private things about them that no one else would never know unless it came out in history books.

And then I would brief them as quickly as I could about climate change and nuclear annihilation, the chief immediate global
threats that I see to our survival.

And then I'd tell them all about Donald J. Trump.

And then they will laugh me off and send me away as a crazy person. No way could that EVER happen in this United States. They would think that's just impossible. I, too, think that it's impossible, but here I am. I would return to our present, as Trump says, a "sad" man.

[gratuitous]

9. Is incredibly thin skin a pre-existing condition?

Butthurt not covered, Mr. President.

[Cracklin Charlie]

10. Does that pic from his twitter page...

Show him making the "white power" sign while addressing the UN?

He is gross.

[smirkymonkey]

11. He is such an evil fuck!

I can't even say what I wish his fate to be.

[Azathoth]

12. "Fuck off and die"

Can't say it any clearer.