Take it to the forums
Saturday, August 8 2009
Following on my last post, I thought I might share the post that got nuked. If you want to talk about health care in your online community, feel free to borrow and adapt this language to suit.
I started off with a brief summary of my circumstances – a sentence or two – and then wrote:
I have to say: health care reform is looking pretty good to me right now.
Under the bill in the House right now, I would have real choices for my health insurance. The bill would prevent health insurers from discriminating based on health (no “pre-existing” conditions), prevent them from dropping sick people after the policy is issued (no rescission), subsidize insurance for poor people, and offer a public option for those who can’t get insurance anywhere else.
For folks like us – people with diseases and disabilities – this reform offers a real chance to escape the grinding cruelty of our health care system. No longer will our need for health care be a pretext to deny us that very care. No longer will we be denied our care when we need it most. No longer will we have to spend away everything to guarantee the basic treatment we need to survive. This bill has the potential to transform the way sick people live in this country.
The good news is that most people support health care reform. But if you know somebody who doesn’t – if you’re getting scary emails, or seeing people tweet or update with this stuff, if you hear people talking about it – please talk to them about it. You don’t have to be confrontational, but ask them what they would have you do without health care, and what alternative they’re offering. Let your Congressman know what you think. Consider a letter to the editor about your experience and expectations. This change is about us, and for us – but there are powerful interests trying to steal it from us. Please, please don’t let them.
I have been following your thread, and am laughing at it. Especially at the fact that there are some who think to seem anybody who chooses not to be active in the UOAA is not being an active on health care. LOL. I mean we all know the UOAA runs the world!