Clint Murphy is a 38-year-old Republican operative. He worked for Republican U.S. Senator Paul Coverdell in the 1990s, Republican Casey Cagle in 2006, John McCain in 2008, and Republican Karen Handel’s gubernatorial campaign in 2010.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Murphy posted a rather striking Facebook message. In the post he said:

“When you say you’re against it, you’re saying that you don’t want people like me to have health insurance.”

It turns out insurance companies do not check whether one is Democrat or Republican. Their immoral policies are simply based on any issue they can use to deny coverage to someone who they determine will cost them in the short-term or the long-term.

Murphy worked for the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia when he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. After four bouts of chemotherapy, he was cancer-free, in remission by 2004. His insurance paid those bills.

As a real estate agent he became responsible for his own health insurance. That’s when he discovered the reality that most of those supporting Obamacare have been fighting against for years: insurance companies will use any type of pre-existing condition to deny coverage.

Murphy likely thought that, having been cancer-free for 10 years, he would have no problem finding insurance. Instead, something as simple as sleep apnea turned out to be the pre-existing condition that got his insurance denied.

He is currently without health insurance. He said as soon as the exchanges open up in Georgia, he will be signing up for Obamacare.

While it is commendable that Clint Murphy has seen the light, why could he not have been empathetic to the millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions prior to his own problems with the same? Did he not believe that denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions was real? This incident is strikingly similar to Republican Senator Rob Portman’s change of heart on gay marriage shortly after his own son came out as gay. Seems empathy is easier when issues hit you at home.

Murphy, however, is a complicated man. Despite the fact that he has seen the light, he still intends to work on Republican Karen Handel’s campaign… and Handel is still committed to “a full stop and defunding of Obamacare in its entirety now,” according to a call to her office by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Just like Clint Murphy has seen the light, millions of Americans now opposing the law will as well. As lies and misinformation from the right-wing and Republicans are disproved by the reality on the ground, Americans will love the law and conservatives will take a credibility hit that all will hold them accountable for.