Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, U.S. Congresswoman representing New Jersey’s 12th district, used her Twitter account on December 12, 2025, to address concerns regarding health care affordability and disparities in the United States.
In one post, Rep. Watson Coleman commented on recent legislative developments in the Senate: “Senate Republicans voted to reject two different proposals to extend health care subsidies for millions of Americans, almost ensuring that premiums will skyrocket. Amid an affordability crisis that President Trump continues to call a ‘hoax,’ Republicans are doubling and tripling https://t.co/MLvVleikc8” (December 12, 2025).
Shortly after, she emphasized the importance of investing in health research and maintaining affordable care: “There is still so much about our health that we do not know.
We must continue to fund health research and expand health care— not undermine science and allow health care costs to skyrocket for millions of Americans.
One step is with my Healthy MOM Act:
https://t.co/VYFc4hIoEo” (December 12, 2025).
In another post from the same day, Rep. Watson Coleman drew attention to the impact of fibroids on Black women’s health: “Fibroids are a strain on health care dollars and are known to disproportionately affect Black women.
Yet, for many of them, years of symptoms are dismissed as simply ‘having bad periods.’
This is unacceptable.
https://t.co/owObMWLD7L” (December 12, 2025).
Watson Coleman has represented New Jersey’s 12th district in Congress since replacing Rush Holt Jr. in 2015 and previously served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2006 to 2010. Born in Camden in 1945 and currently residing in Ewing Township, she graduated from Thomas Edison State University with a bachelor’s degree in 1985.
