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The Emmy Award-winning actress shared the news on Twitter. She thanked her friends and family for their support and called on others to help "make universal health care a reality." Wochit HBO's vulgar, straight-shooting political comedy Veep has covered a lot of ground across its six seasons in a fast-changing political and cultural climate. In its seventh and final season, the show starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus — returning to her starring role as the foul-mouthed, would-be president after undergoing treatment for breast cancer — returns to the place where all politics-obsessed narratives must: Iowa. Executive Producer David Mandel has said that this moment was based off a real mixup that the Obama campaign once made. Over the first three episodes aired this season, Meyer's campaign and her opponents romp up and down Iowa in familiar locales, both real like Waterloo, Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, and fictional, like Lurlene, Iowa, a town famous for its novelty dog mayor. This mentality holds true for Iowa as the show digs deep into the first-in-the-nation caucus state's stereotypes. In one outrageous scene, the president's aid, Amy Brookheimer (played by Anna Chlumsky), gets an abortion at a clinic in central Iowa. The show's Iowa obsession spilled over into real life when HBO took at two full-page advertisements in the Register to promote realistic-seeming campaigns for the Selina Meyers presidency and her bumbling, dim-witted opponent Jonah Ryan (played by Timothy Simons). Episodes of Veep's final season air every Sunday at 9:30 p.m.