Victoria Brownworth #TrumpIsOverParty

#DyingIs Knowing if I were screaming "Help me! I’m dying!" SOMEONE would try to save my life, but people will let #GrahamCassidy pass. 3/

#DyingIs Gasping for breath, heart pounding with Afib cause by a PE & not being able to get people to help prevent #GrahamCassidy. 4/

#DyingIs Tweeting about having cancer & MS & how #GrahamCassidy will kill me. Screaming for help. Pleading for a viral response. 5/

#DyingIs Focus is on #singlepayer, which folks think we’ll have after #GrahamCassidy passes & 35M lose health ins. It needs 60 votes. 6/

#DyingIs Sanders’ M4A bill, "borrowed" from @RepJohnConyers, who’s put it up every year for 20yrs, but never been invited on a talk show. 7/

#DyingIs Knowing there are 49 votes for #GrahamCassidy NOW(needs 51). Only 16 for M4A (needs 60). And no plan for implementation of M4A. 8/

#DyingIs Being dxd with #cancer at 26, MS at 30, fighting to hang onto health ins, able to change jobs, newspapers, but never ins co. 9/

#DyingIs Your mother getting very sick at 60. Must go to a nursing home. #Medicaid pays for part of it. Your sibling pays for the rest. 10/

#DyingIs You agree to pay for Dad if anything goes wrong, because your mother died slowly & painfully, miserably & SO expensively. 11/

#DyingIs Your father, who plays tennis every week & has a wife younger than you, has a sudden stroke. He made you power of attorney. 12/

#DyingIs Putting your handsome, reads-a-couple-books-a-week,now-paralyzed dad in a nursing home.Feeding tube,can’t read,barely speaks. 13/

#DyingIs #Medicaid pays only so much. You pay the rest. It crushes you. You go bankrupt. Then YOU get a new diagnosis. 14/

#DyingIs Watching your dad die slowly. Painfully. #Medicaid won’t pay for a hearing aid or new glasses when someone steals his. 15/

#DyingIs A close friend gets #cancer. She survives. But goes bankrupt. The husband of another friend gets cancer. They go bankrupt. 16/

#DyingIs Relaxing a little after #ACA is passed. Thinking you are safe. Then your GOP governor refuses #Medicaid expansion. Files suit. 17/

#DyingIs Signing up at http://healthcare.gov  but making too little money to qualify for subsidy. Being sent to #Medicaid expansion. 18/

#DyingIs Your state & others doesn’t have #Medicaid expansion because Dems never thought GOP could be so cruel. You pay full price. 19/

#DyingIs Losing everything to medical bankruptcy–for your father & you–like millions of others. Watching legislators ignore your lives. 20/

#DyingIs Being desperate. Thinking you can sell your painkillers–$40 a pill on the street–to pay for your health insurance premium. 21/

#DyingIs Having a conscience. Knowing you can’t contribute to someone else’s addiction by selling your pills. But the thought is there. 22/

#DyingIs All you want to is less stress. Recalling how you got sick on assignment in Toronto. All the hospital charged you was $100. 23/

#DyingIs Knowing @HillaryClinton will protect #ACA, seek SP/#UHC. You’re fighting #cancer, never been sicker, but HRC will protect you. 24/

#DyingIs Trump campaigning on taking everyone’s healthcare. Folks not caring enough about poor, sick, #disabled to vote against him. 25/

#DyingIs Tweeting from the hospital over&over Your arm when they can’t find a vein Your hand black from the infection caused by the IV. 25/

#DyingIs Tweeting from the hospital after treatment causes paralysis. The "gym" where they give you 3 days to learn to "walk" again. 26/

#DyingIs Learning that the only rehab your insurance will pay for doesn’t have a physical therapist on the premises. 27/

#DyingIs Being sent home on a holiday weekend, paralyzed, with neither you nor your wife knowing how you’re going to manage. 28/

#DyingIs Pain. Shock. Fear. In the hospital they gave you communion every day. At home you can’t even pray. You & The Wife fight a lot.29/

#DyingIs Recalling covering others' illnesses: a Pulitzer nom for writing about pediatric AIDS. The sweetness of abandoned AIDS babies. 30/