Axelrod: I cried when they passed Obamacare

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(CNN)I wept the night the Affordable Care Act passed.

Through my closed office door in the White House, I could hear President Obama and my colleagues cheer as the final tally came in from the House of Representatives that, at long last, would send the ACA to his desk. But I wasn't there. Sensing my emotions welling, I had excused myself from the gathering in the Roosevelt Room as the votes mounted and walked across the hall to be alone and collect my thoughts.........

............When my daughter, Lauren, was 7 months old, my wife found her gray and limp in her crib. Susan, at first, thought our beautiful little baby had died. But soon, Lauren stirred. One arm shot into the air and stiffened, her eyes rolled back in her head and she began frothing at the mouth.

Lauren had epilepsy. This seizure was one of thousands she would experience over the next 18 years. She lived through more than a dozen hospitalizations, brutal, failed treatments and brain surgery before we were able to find a combination of drugs to stop them.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/21/opinions/i-cried-when-they-passed-obamacare-axelrod/index.html

[Eko]

1. Me too.

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2. this wretched bill really tells us a lot about the soul of the republican party

that they would lie as they have been to promote this pos....they are contemptibly lacking in any form of heart or empathy....zero

[Stuart G]

3. thank you....that first sentence says everything.."soul of the republican party" ..none..

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4. I did, too

My sister could very well be alive if the ACA existed 18 years ago when she died of cancer. She was in between jobs, had no health insurance and didn't qualify for Medicaid. I cried bittersweet tears.

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5. I imagine a lot of people did.

thanks for sharing that

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6. I'll never forget that day....such wonderful memories those eight years

Now we're living a nightmare with a mentally ill psychopath. It will pass.

[Fatemah2774]

7. I cried as well...

And miss 44 each day that I see 45 still in.