U.S. Senate candidate Alieta Eck enters the News 12 television studio in Edison before her July 31 debate with fellow Republican Steve Lonegan. She and her husband, also a physician, operate a free health care clinic for the poor and uninsured.(Aristide Economopoulos/The Star-Ledger)
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP — The day U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg died, Alieta Eck was treating a patient at the free health clinic for the poor and uninsured she operates with her husband in Somerset County.
The patient, she said, had just learned her minimum-wage job was being cut from 37 to 29 hours a week, with her employer blaming the costs associated with President Obama’s health care overhaul.
"She didn’t know what she was going to do," Eck said. "I realized: Obamacare is going to hurt people. How are we going to stop it?"
Eck paused.
"Then," she said, "I got that phone call."
A doctor friend from California was on the line with a suggestion: You want to do something about Obamacare? Why not run for Lautenberg’s empty seat?
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