Woman with stage 4 cancer thrown out of town hall after asking GOP senator about health care

Las Vegas resident Laura Packard is a self-employed small business owner who has stage 4 Hodgkin’s lymphoma and health insurance through an Affordable Care Act exchange. On Saturday, she was thrown out of a town hall event featuring Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) after she tried to ask him why he supports legislation that would strip coverage from people like her.

After the moderator of the LIBRE Initiative read Heller a question about the Republican tax cut plan that was written by ...