Parents of Sick Kids Are a Powerful Weapon Against the Senate Health Bill

Ali Chandra never intended to become a political warrior. Before 2016, she wasn't even registered to vote. The New Jersey mother of two didn't have time for politics, she says, because she was too busy taking care of sick kids — first as a pediatric nurse, and then as a full-time mom to her son Ethan, 2, who has a rare condition called heterotaxy: he was born with nine congenital heart defects, two left lungs, and five spleens.