Scott Lunsford said he was done with Democrats after they pledged to give free health care to illegal immigrants while disregarding U.S. citizens.
Scott Lunsford of Wichita, Kansas, knew the precise moment he was leaving the Democratic Party, he told his nearly 16,000 followers on TikTok in a recent video that quickly went viral.
It was during a Democratic Party debate in the 2019 presidential primary season, when all 10 candidates raised their hands in approval of illegal immigrants receiving government-subsidized health insurance.
“I was a two-time bone cancer survivor,” he told his followers in the video. “I voted for Obama–Biden based on Obamacare. And when it was implemented in 2010, I ended up losing my insurance.”
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), known informally as “Obamacare,” became law in 2010 under President Barack Obama.
Before the implementation of the law, Mr. Lunsford’s monthly insurance plan was $185 with a $1,000 deductible. However, that policy was canceled because it no longer met the ACA requirements.
The cheapest option available under the new law was a $1,200 monthly plan with a $6,000 deductible, he said in the video.
“I went 10 years without insurance, and I was penalized each year because I could no longer afford insurance,” he said. “Everything they said about Obamacare was a lie.”
Mr. Lunsford, 54, told The Epoch Times that seeing Democrats advocate for free health care for illegal immigrants while he had gone without was like “getting salt poured on a wound.”
When he was 32, doctors discovered he had cancer on his humerus, he said. The humerus is the upper arm bone that connects to the shoulder.
Doctors took out the bone, he explained, and replaced it with a rod to connect his arm.
“Thankfully I had my insurance because I was going in and getting X-rays,” he said.
When he turned 36, physicians found another growth on a piece of bone that had been left to connect his arm.
“If I hadn’t had insurance, I wouldn’t be here right now,” he said. “I wasn’t supposed to make it either time.”
The affected arm had to be removed, he said.
“It was a very hard thing to do, but at the same time, it wasn’t for my benefit,” he said. “It was for my family’s benefit that I be there.”
