Mariannette Miller-Meeks says she’s taking on insurance companies. Christina Bohannan says she’s taking on insurance companies. Watch their commercials back to back, and you’d think the insurance companies were about to get their asses kicked.
Then
come the attack ads. Now they’re both working for insurance companies.
Somebody’s lying. Somebody’s leaving things out, and you just wanted to watch
the news.
They’re
running for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District. Miller-Meeks beat Bohannan in
2022, then barely got past her in 2024, winning with just 799 votes. Not much
breathing room when over 400,000 votes were cast.
Miller-Meeks
is the Republican already in Congress. Bohannan is a Democrat trying to replace
her. They’ve got their pitches down, but what the hell are we actually getting?
Miller-Meeks
has a pretty good story. In tenth grade, she was badly burned in a kitchen
fire. A physical therapist who helped her recover got her thinking about a
career in medicine.
She
left home at 16, joined the Army at 18, and served for 24 years as a private,
nurse, and doctor. Later, she practiced ophthalmology, ran Iowa’s public health
department, served in the Iowa Senate, and went to Congress in 2021.
She
didn’t just borrow a white coat for the commercial. She’s treated people and
knows something about healthcare. When she says nobody should go broke because
they got sick, most of us will not argue.
