An email I sent to Tucker Carson today

"Let's talk about death panels"

You keep saying that the ACA puts death panels in place to decide who's going to live and die.

The old system decided years ago that I should die young and in agony. I worked at low-wage jobs till I was fifty-nine. Now I have severe arthritis and I can't do it without knee surgery. I also have familial early onset of the diseases of age. Without medicine, I would die young like many members of my family. My husband died young too.

The ACA gave me insurance again. My medicine was costing me about a hundred and fifty dollars a month (after my pharmacist gave me an unofficial discount: otherwise it would have cost five hundred dollars a month) and there was no hope of paying for physical therapy or surgery. Now I pay a dollar a month for my insurance, I see a whole team of regular health professionals, and my medicine costs twenty-five dollars a month. I'm doing the preliminaries for surgery. So much for death panels -- the ACA has insured that I'll have a decent life.

Some Republican spokespeople have actually gone on record as saying that people like me should suffer and die young. Well, I'm going on record as saying that I don't agree. I have two beautiful children who deserve to have a mother to encourage them, and I contribute to my community as best I can (I volunteer, I give blood, I am an active citizen).

Every time one of you people spreads your lies about ACA death panels, you discourage more people like me from signing up for insurance and getting taken care of. Those people are at higher risk of increased disability and early death. Do you understand this makes you a murderer?