Megan Epand usually votes for Democrats, but this year her decision was personal.
Epand, 31, doesn’t want to see the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare, disappear. After being in the hospital for 10 days recently, Epand worries that if Republican Mitt Romney is elected president, and makes good on his promise to repeal Obamacare, she’ll be in trouble. After 2014, insurance companies are barred from denying coverage to people with preexisting conditions.
“If they repeal Obamacare, that could affect me personally, because a lot of companies won’t pick me up,” Epand said after voting at Old Greenwich School. “I feel that much more strongly about the issues this year than I have in the past.”
Chris Keeler, on the other hand, thinks that there are too many people accepting entitlements. Keeler, who also cast his ballot at Old Greenwich School, cited a statistic that there are 68 million people on food stamps (it was actually around 47 million as of this past June, according to FactCheck.org).
“That’s a huge increase under the Obama administration,” Keeler said.