DonnaMarie Woodson

DonnaMarie Woodson

North Carolina

DonnaMarie Woodson (NC), a cancer survivor who relies on the Affordable Care Act’s protections for pre-existing conditions, blasted the Trump administration for working to rip health care away from Americans, even amid a public health crisis. If she hadn’t been insured through the ACA, she said she probably wouldn’t have had screening tests that led to her diagnoses with colon cancer and breast cancer in 2015. And without timely treatment, Woodson, 61, said, “I could have died.” Now that she’s recovered, with those “pre-existing conditions” on her medical record, she’s fighting against the push by Republican congressional leaders and supporters of President Donald Trump to dismantle the ACA.