I’m Terminally Ill. I Don’t Have Time for Government Health Care.

Democrats like to say, for lack of a better term, that Republicans hate sick people. I have cystic fibrosis: a chronic, life-threatening genetic disease, and I’m sick and tired of Democrats lying and fearmongering to people who are already sick and tired.

The Affordable Care Act was fundamentally flawed from the start and was never designed to function without massive, unsustainable subsidies. It ultimately was doomed to fail. The ACA drove up costs, narrowed provider networks, and reduced access to care.

In fact, the ACA is one of the main reasons I kept working even when my doctors told me I was too sick to do so.

I had to maintain my private insurance. Without it, I would have lost my doctors, faced longer wait times, lost the flexibility to complete treatments outside the hospital, and been cut off from the quality care I needed, not just to stay alive, but to remain a functioning member of society.

And somehow, Democrats are now pushing something even worse than the Affordable Care Act: universal health care.

On paper, universal health care sounds great. Everyone has access. It’s “free.”

But I’m a first-generation American from Cuba, and I know exactly what happens when the government takes over essential systems.

When bureaucrats are inserted into systems best managed by the private sector, quality inevitably declines. Health care is no exception.

Here’s what happens with universal health care: You can once again forget about keeping or choosing your doctor. That choice is critical for anyone with a preexisting, life-threatening condition, and it’s a right every American should have, whether sick or healthy.

A doctor is a doctor, right? It’s not that simple.

For complex conditions like cystic fibrosis, you don’t just need a doctor, you need a team that’s willing to work with both your treatment schedule and your life.

Maintaining quality of life matters. Many physicians aren’t willing to do that and will see you as just another name on a chart.

Choice allows you to find a doctor or care team that values your quality of life as much as you do. That choice is what truly allows patients to not just survive with a chronic illness, but to fully live with it. You can forget about that choice with universal health care.

Taxes go up because nothing is free. Someone always pays. Hospitals, physicians, nurses, medical staff, equipment, and supplies are already finite resources. When the government takes control, those limited resources are stretched even thinner.

Universal health care also means longer wait times. Not days or weeks, but months or even years.

Patients are placed on waitlists for specialists and, in many cases, even primary care.

For someone like me with cystic fibrosis, those delays can be fatal. These waitlists extend to life-or-death care, including organ transplants.

In countries like Canada, where universal health care exists, transplant wait times can stretch for years, and many patients don’t survive long enough to receive one. That’s why so many Canadians come to the United States for transplants and advanced care.

Yet, Democrats continue to push for these policies under the false claim that they “save lives,” while lying to and fearmongering sick people into believing Republicans want to take their care away.

I’ve seen it happen countless times. That narrative is flat-out false and morally wrong. Scaring chronically and terminally ill patients for political gain is evil.

The truth is the opposite. Republicans understand the lasting damage the ACA has already done, and the far greater harm universal health care would bring. These systems don’t save lives; they delay care, ration treatment, and drive up costs by inserting government bureaucrats between patients and survival.

It’s time someone with real skin in the game calls out Democrats for their bogus health care policies. It’s time Democrats stop politicizing people’s lives. It’s time for Republicans to take the lead on health care by advancing serious, sustainable policies that prioritize patient choice, access to care, long-term system stability, affordability, and address the fundamental shortcomings of government-driven systems.

Patients deserve truth, choice, and timely care. Not fear-driven government control where life depends on it.

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