Hello,

I was only nine years old when I was diagnosed with a serious illness and spent three months in the hospital. When I got better, my grandparents who raised me looked for an insurance policy that would cover me in the future.

Unfortunately, due to my previous illness, they couldn’t find one. Not from any insurer. Not at any price. They had to pay for my health care out of pocket — and they had to make enormous sacrifices to do so — all because I was a child who had been labeled with those words: “pre-existing condition.”

I got into public service because I saw my grandparents stay up nights, worried sick that I would fall ill again and they wouldn't be able to afford my care. No one should ever have to go through that.

Like 133 million Americans, I know what it's like to have the label "pre-existing condition" attached to my care — and before the Affordable Care Act was passed, many of us could be denied coverage.

Today, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against someone based on a pre-existing condition. I championed that health reform and fought to allow young people to stay on their parents’ insurance plans up to age 26. These policy changes have led to millions more Americans getting the health insurance they need.

But the more work we do, the more attacks Republicans launch on our health care system. They’ve spent years playing political football with people’s lives. And if Republicans ever get their way, countless Americans could find themselves in a place where insurance companies, once again, write all the rules.

The people of Wisconsin did not send me to Washington to take people’s health care away — which is why I have fought back against right-wing efforts to repeal the ACA and why I will never back down when it comes to protecting and expanding affordable care.

Every American deserves affordable health coverage, and there’s more we can do to make that a reality. I’ve always believed our goal must be universal health care coverage. That’s why I’m a cosponsor on Senator Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All bill and why I reintroduced my bill in the Senate to expand Medicare to folks 50 and older.

Now that Democrats have the majority in Washington, we can finally make real progress in our fight for universal health care. But Republicans will stop at nothing to halt our progress, so I could really use your support on this.

Will you become a citizen co-sponsor of my bill to expand Medicare to Americans 50 and older? This would be an important step in the right direction in our fight toward universal health care.

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Thanks for standing by me on this critical issue.

— Tammy

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