Jeff Jeans

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Jeff Jeans

Jeff Jeans is a small business owner and resident of Sedona, Arizona known for asking a question to the Speaker of the House of Representatives incumbent Paul Ryan. ^[1]

Background

Photo of Jeff in Black and white.

According to his Facebook account, it appears Jeans' hometown is Springfield, Missouri. Jeans has been a lifelong supporter of the Republican Party having done work for the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush campaigns. ^[undefined]

At the age of 49, he was diagnosed with a curable cancer, and he thanks Obamacare and president Barack Obama for saving his life. Due to this experience, he appears to have changed his political stance. ^[1]

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Photo of Jeff with his friends.

Jeans is a graduate of Butler University. ^[undefined]

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On January 12th, 2017, Jeans was chosen to ask Paul Ryan a question at a CNN Town Hall event. Jeff Jeans told Ryan that he was initially opposed to the Affordable Care Act but not anymore. When he was diagnosed with a "Curable cancer", and six weeks to live. He says:

"We offered 3 times the cost of my treatment which was rejected.
they required an insurance card.
Thanks to the Affordable Health Care Act I am standing here alive. Being both a small business person and someone with preexisting conditions I rely on the Affordable Care Act to purchase my own insurance. Why would you repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement?"^[1]

Ryan answers the question as saying that they would replace it with something better.

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