Ryan confronted by cancer patient who says ObamaCare saved his life

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33. Republicans only care about something that affects them personally.

Then they get it.

Years ago--in the late 80's early 90's--we lived in St. Joseph, MO (which had one of the few newspapers in the country
to endorse Trump last year) which is a very right wing town. I was very vocal as one of the few pro-choice
people in town--writing letters to the editor--and in fact, it got so reporters who covered abortion/ anti choice/ pro choice
stories would call me for comments!

One time not long after I'd been quoted in a story, I had taken one of my boys to the doc. We used a family
practitioner rather than a pediatrician when we lived there. We were chatting and he told me that he had more
than a few anti-choice families--well known in town--show up in his office asking for names of docs who did abortions
when their teenage daughters got pregnant. They had no problem with all of a sudden changing their tune when
the need for abortion services was experienced in their own families. The doc didn't hesitate to call them hypocrites
and he identified the fact that when it hit them personally, they realized the benefit of the concept of being pro-choice.