Julie Boonstra responds to her attackers that say she is lying about her healthcare

Five years ago, I was diagnosed with leukemia. The first thing I did was find a health plan that fit my needs — a “Cadillac” plan because that covered 100 percent of my expensive treatments. While the plan was expensive, it allowed me to focus on my health and to see the specialists and doctors that I needed. Most of all, it gave me peace of mind.

Obamacare canceled my plan. Last October, I received a cancellation letter. I was being denied my insurance choice because my plan didn’t comply with Obamacare. I was shocked. Like the rest of the country, I’d heard the president promise, “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it.”

He lied to me — a cancer patient. After I received my cancellation letter, I tried repeatedly to get onto the marketplace; it never worked. I tried to call the marketplace representatives; I never got through.

I was in a state of panic. Without insurance, I can’t afford the medication that keeps my cancer from growing. I simply could not have a gap in insurance coverage. I paced the floor most nights, I couldn’t eat, sleep or focus on anything other than trying to get insurance. I even pulled out my will and updated it.

In December, I finally got through to a representative from the marketplace. I was told I could only do a paper application — but it would take two weeks before I knew anything. I didn’t have two weeks. I had to have coverage now, so that I could get my medication paperwork started.

That’s when I gave up. Instead, I called an insurance broker and enrolled in a plan that came closest to my discontinued plan. I focused on my specialist and my medications. The premiums were cut in half, but much of those savings were offset by an increased out-of-pocket limit.

Now, I am not sure if I’ll be able to afford the month-to-month cost spikes that could accompany plans like this. I now have to plan and think about what every test costs and if I have the money. I need those tests in order to survive. Now I have to worry about that cost as well as the cancer test results.

I recently told my story in Michigan with the help of a group called Americans for Prosperity. Now people are attacking me and calling me a liar. Some believe that I can afford the insurance because the annual premiums will be lower.

Those people choose to ignore the problems inherent with high out-of-pocket limits and prescriptions that aren’t covered for a person like me.

My new plan could mean wildly fluctuating and front-loaded costs in the first few months of the year. I chose my old plan — the one that Obamacare canceled — specifically so I could budget for the same monthly costs with certainty.

I have reached out to Congressman Gary Peters for help since he is running for a Senate seat for Michigan.

He refuses to speak to me.

Instead of trying to help me, Congressman Peters tried to silence me. His Washington attorneys have attempted to intimidate television stations airing my story.

I actually went to his house when I learned of this to ask him to help me navigate the Obamacare law, a law he helped pass. He didn’t answer, so I left him a note asking him to contact me.

Then Sen. Harry Reid said — on the U.S. Senate floor, no less — that my story is a lie.

I never asked for this. Obamacare has turned my life into a nightmare.

That’s why I’m speaking out for the 225,000 Michiganians who also lost their insurance plans thanks to Obamacare. Like them, I want a plan that works for me.

Instead, Obamacare has denied me my choice of coverage, President Barack Obama has betrayed my trust, Harry Reid called me a liar, and Gary Peters has tried to silence me.

— Julie Boonstra, Dexter

Obamacare victim with cancer, Julie Boonstra, pays a visit to Congressman Gary Peters House as he tries to silence her story

Julie Boonstra is a cancer patient who has stated, because of Obamacare, she lost the medical coverage she once had.  Congressman Gary Peters is targeting her and the television stations that have been airing a commercial telling her story.

Today, Julie Boonstra paid a visit to Gary Peter's house as he has not returned her calls but instead sent a cease and desist letter to try to quite her.

Julie Boonstra has stated, in the video below, she demands to speak with her congressman as she is his employer.  She states she will not back down.  Looks like Gary has bullied the wrong person this time.

Congressman Gary Peters Bullies Cancer Patient and Ducks News Interview To Explain His Actions.

The Kelly File on the Fox News Channel yesterday called out Gary Peters to come on her show and explain why he and his lawyers are attempting to silence Julie Boonstra on her Obamacare story. U.S. Rep Gary Peters has taken legal steps to silence Boonstra’s story and force television stations to pull the issue ad in which she is featured, off the airwaves.

COWARD GARY PETERS

Gary Peters has yet to accept Megyn Kelly's request to be on her show and to explain his actions.

HAS ANYONE SEEN CONGRESSMAN GARY PETERS?

HE TRIED TO BULLY A CANCER PATIENT INTO SILENCE AND NOW HE'S NOWHERE TO BE SEEN!

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In a new all time political low, a congressman, Gary Peters tries to silence a woman with cancer. He also goes after licenses of TV stations that play the woman's story.

In a new all time political low, a congressman, Gary Peters tries to silence a woman with cancer. He also goes after licenses of TV stations that play the woman's story.

While Julie Boonstra of Dexter, Mich., struggles to survive leukemia, she now also has to cope with being called a liar by the Democrat who wants to be her next senator.

And the campaign of Rep. Gary Peters is also going after television stations airing ads in which her story is featured, threatening their licenses.

Congressman Gary Peters Thinks It's Ok To Silence A Woman
Dying of Cancer For Telling Her Obamacare Story

The ad by Americans for Prosperity features Julie Boonstra talking about how her insurance was canceled under Obamacare and saying that Peters' decision to vote for the law "jeopardized my health." The ads are airing in Michigan as Peters seeks the Democratic nomination to replace Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who is not seeking re-election.

Media organizations investigating the ad's claims note that Boonstra was able to find comparable new insurance under the law; the Washington Post's "Fact Checker" blog gave the ad "two Pinocchios" (as compared to four for President Obama's claim that people could keep their insurance under the law).

***UPDATE: BULLY GARY PETERS DUCKS NEWS INTERVIEW ASKING HIM HIS SIDE OF THE STORY***

But Boonstra, in response, told the local Dexter Leader newspaper that though she has no idea whether she will break even with her new plan, as the fact-checkers claim, the uncertainty of having to restructure her health care while coping with a deadly disease is damage enough.

"People are asking me for the numbers and I don't know those answers -- that's the heartbreak of all of this. It's the uncertainty of not having those numbers that I have an issue with, because I always knew what I was paying and now I don't, and I haven't gone through the tests or seen my specialist yet," she said.

"People don't have that certainty -- they don't have the stability of knowing every month what they're going to be paying now and it's the ability to actually have that sum of money to pay. People don't have these out-of -pocket expense moneys."

Boonstra said she is “surprised” by what she described as the Peters campaign’s strong-arm tactics.

“I’m very surprised,” Boonstra said just hour after she attempted to confront Peter face-to-face at his Bloomfield Hills residence. “I have every right to tell my story and express my point of view and opinion on how Obamacare has effected me.”

Boonstra attempted to confront the congressman at his door, but he did not answer when she knocked.

“I just went up to his house and knocked on his door,” Boonstra recalled. “I would like to meet with him, but he did not answer. I know someone was home, so I left a letter there for him.”

Boonstra wrote in her letter, “I don’t understand why you’re trying to silence my voice. I have every right to speak out and don’t understand why you’re doing this.”

A spokesman for the Peters campaign did not respond to a request for comment on the matter.

“The fact that Representative Peters would sic his legal team on a Michigan mother battling cancer to muzzle her tells you everything you need to know about his record of putting politics over people,” AFP-Michigan State Director Scott Hagerstrom said in a statement.

“This attack on her credibility is disgusting, unwarranted, and inexcusable,” Hagerstrom said. “Congressman Peters and his indecent campaign team should be ashamed of themselves.”

The  following is pretty much established fact:

• Julie Boonstra has leukemia.
• She had a plan that she liked.
• She lost it.
• She doesn’t think that her alternative options are acceptable*.
• But back to the previous point: she was told that she could keep her plan.
• She lost it.
• Gary Peters voted for Obamacare, and Obamacare is the reason why Julie Boonstra lost her plan.

I am uncertain why the Peters campaign thinks that attacking a woman who has leukemia – and make no mistake; they’re calling her a liar in this cease-and-desistletter – will make people like their candidate better.

Gary Peters was sued himself by former rival candidate Rocky Raczkowski in 2010. The suit was over an ad the Raczkowski claimed was filled with lies and misinformation to intentionally mislead voters.

To silence a woman fighting cancer is a new low for any politician. American's For Prosperity was the firm that produced the advertisement but Gary chose not to go after them. Perhaps Gary was to afraid to pick on someone that was in his league?

This slime ball also had the nerve to run outside of the district he lives in to run and steal the congressional representative position from former Congressman Hansen Clarke. Has Gary Peter even worked in his district since becoming Congressman? He almost immediately announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate upon winning the election in 2012.