Marci’s was the small voice in a raucous debate over national health care. The media dubbed her “the Obamacare Kid.”Ten-year-old Marci Owens, then known as Marcelas, tells the story of her mother to Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.). Marci’s mother, Tifanny Owens, died at 27 after she lost her job and health care. The secret reached back to kindergarten and the uncomfortable feeling Marci Owens said she got when teachers separated her and her classmates by gender. (David Ryder/For The Washington Post)Marci Owens uses her computer while chatting with her grandmother, Gina Owens, at their home in Seattle.

Source: Washington Post October 15, 2016 22:25 UTC