I had the honor of serving in the U.S. Congress and passing Michelle’s Law, landmark legislation born in New Hampshire that became the basis for allowing young people under 26 to stay on their parent’s insurance policy under Obamacare. That provision protects millions nationwide and thousands here at home.

My vote for Obamacare likely cost me my political career, but it was worth it. Now, health care is on the line in this election, like never before. But we face a dangerous opponent to our health care in New Hampshire. His name is Chris Sununu.

Chris Sununu, a self-described “Trump guy through and through,” supports the repeal of highly popular Obamacare, just like Trump. The Supreme Court is set to hold arguments on Obamacare repeal right after the election. And, right now, Trump is speeding to confirm a Supreme Court justice who opposes Obamacare, ramming the pick through before the election.

Sununu agrees with Trump and his cohorts that the process on this justice should move forward right now. At a time when health care is more important than ever, Chris Sununu and Donald Trump are rushing to take it away.

We are in a public health emergency. COVID cases are skyrocketing in New Hampshire, growing faster than in most states, and we have much worse numbers than either Maine or Vermont. Nothing could be more important in a public health emergency than our health care.

And nothing is more under attack and under threat right now than our health care.

That’s been Chris Sununu’s approach during his entire political career. In 2012, when Sununu was on the Executive Council, Sununu actually voted against setting up an Obamacare health insurance exchange in New Hampshire, saying it would lead to an “income tax.” In 2016, Sununu said Obamacare “must be repealed,” and Sununu said he supported Donald Trump because Trump “could finally actually end horrible programs like Obamacare.”

When Trumpcare, the repeal of Obamacare without a replacement, passed the U.S. House in 2017, Sununu called it a “huge win.” Fortunately, it failed to pass the U.S. Senate, with Sen. Shaheen and Sen. Hassan, along with public servants like the late Sen. John McCain, voting the Obamacare repeal down, and dealing a huge defeat to both Sununu and Trump.

Under Sununu, New Hampshire already has the highest co-pays, highest premiums, and highest deductibles anywhere in the United States. Time and time again, whether it is Obamacare, or paid family and medical leave insurance, or preventative oral health care, or waiving insurance bills for COVID-19 testing, Sununu sides with the health insurance lobby, often vetoing common sense, bipartisan healthcare initiatives. And Trump and Sununu have taken millions from the health insurance and drug companies, the same corporate special interests that oppose these same measures and that want Obamacare repealed.

If you care at all about health care, you simply cannot vote for Chris Sununu. Sununu wants a rare third term as governor, but hasn’t laid out any plans for what he’d do. Probably because we all know what he’d do – he’d take us backward on health care, drive up costs for ordinary folks, drive up profits for his campaign donors, while health care access goes down.

This fall, you should vote like your health is on the line, because it is.

(Paul Hodes represented New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District from 2007 to 2011.)