Cancer patient who voted GOP in 2008 says she would be dead without Obama's health care law

[Fla Dem]

10. She's still against the ACA, except the part where she gets coverage.

"Without her PCIP coverage, Watson is convinced she would have been sent home from the emergency room after initial treatment to ease her shortness of breath.

"I'm not a candidate for any for type of indigent program, and without insurance they would not have put me in ICU," she said.

"I would have gone into cardiac arrest and probably died," she added. Emergency rooms must treat the uninsured, "but they are only required to get you stable. And then they release you and tell you to go to the health department." "

"Watson says she still disagrees with Obama's requirement that individuals have health insurance, either through an employer, a government program or by purchasing their own plan. "I approve of some of it," she said of the law, "I don't approve of the mandatory ... insurance."

Without the mandatory requirement that healthy individuals buy health care coverage, the part of the ACA that assures coverage for pre-existing conditions would not be possible. But she only wants what benefits her, and not the general public as a whole.