Friends,
We do a lot of work in DC, but when important pieces of policy that will help Granite Staters get stuck due to partisan gridlock it can be incredibly frustrating.
In Tamworth last week, I heard from a woman who told us she “falls in the in-between lines.” Her income from two jobs limits her access to the affordable care she needs to treat her psoriasis outbreaks.
She needs a shot every two weeks that costs $2,000 and doesn't have adequate insurance. Her only options were to cover the costs of her treatment on her own or go without. Being unable to afford the life-changing prescription medication out-of-pocket, she suffered. A nurse at the event shared that the pain the woman endured was so horrible that she had to ask her family to leave their home before she would shower so they wouldn’t hear her cry when the water touched her skin.
In Danville, I met a Vietnam veteran and former paratrooper who lost his home, cat, two dogs, and 55 years of sheet music he had written throughout his life to a fire in early 2018.
After a week in the ICU, he had to stay in a hotel and then transitional housing for more than a year. Now he is living in a new home made possible through New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s Veterans FIRST project. Without this NH-based project, he may have become another veteran who slipped between the cracks.
I share these stories with you because, when the frustration of Washington sets in, I’m reminded of the people I’m fighting for and why I am a public servant. The impacts of inaction in our government has real impacts on our friends, family, and neighbors -- and we need to do better.
Serving Granite Staters is a responsibility I will never take lightly.
Thank you for trusting me to do this work.
Chris
