Darrell Issa's Traveling Obamacare Hearings Exclude ACA Supporters | Crooks and Liars
Residents were angry because Issa picked the five witnesses that we will hear from, all residents of North Carolina.
Allison Ward will NOT be among them. A proponent of the ACA, she wrote this letter to Issa, saying "I want to testify for one reason. I cannot do this by myself. I cannot afford healthcare."
"I haven't heard any word back," Ward says.
And she probably won't. A representative from Issa's office says all speakers had to be vetted in advance...that the format tomorrow will not be a town hall...that they're trying to keep the hearing short - about two hours.
But Ward says her message is important. The ACA offers her insurance she can afford for the first time in years.
"My president has said I hear you, I'm going to help you and frankly the way I see it is that other people are getting in the way," she says.
Dana Wilson is another Charlotte resident who wants to speak, but has not gotten a response to her request. As a teenager, she was diagnosed with MS.
"No one would insure me at all," Wilson says.