Trump Blocks Woman With Stage 4 Cancer On Twitter After Health Care Critiques

President Donald Trump blocked on Twitter a Nevada woman with advanced cancer after she began tweeting at him different criticisms of Republican health care bills, according to Think Progress.

Laura Packard has stage IV Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, and found out Wednesday morning that the president's Twitter account had blocked her.

“I didn’t sleep too well because of the cancer,” she told ThinkProgress on Wednesday. “But I don’t know if he just woke up on the wrong side of the bed today or what.”

Packard posts regularly about health care, but on Tuesday tweeted frequently at the president over his support for the latest GOP health care bill, the Graham-Cassidy bill. The bill is named after its authors Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana.

The bill is the most recent attempt by the Republicans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare.

The bill would eliminate certain protections provided by the ACA and allow states more leeway in deterring what insurers would be forced to cover. Theoretically, states could take away protections for preexisting conditions, costing people with cancer lots of money.

The bill would wind down ACA programs that expanded coverage, kicking millions of people off insurance.

“I cannot afford [a $141,000 premium] and I suspect most people cannot,” said Packard.

Instead of blocking her, Packard just wishes he would listen.

“He said [during the campaign] he would come up with something that was great and was going to cover everybody, and [Republicans] keep coming up with bills that are the exact opposite,” she said. “He’s definitely not listening to me now.”

Packard has advocated against several iterations of Republican health care bills. She wrote an op-ed in U.S. News & World Report called, “Save Obamacare, Save My Life.”

“Getting rid of lifetime and/or annual limits? That means many of us will die when we hit those caps and can no longer afford treatment,” she wrote. “Getting rid of pre-existing condition protections? Many of us will die, because we won’t be insurable anymore. Allowing insurers to remove essential health benefits … means many of us will die, because our insurance won’t cover our treatment anymore.”