Tell us why you want health care reform to pass (or fail).
Once upon a time, the Obama administration insisted that Americans were demanding health care reform yesterday. Then the summer of the tea party town hall protests came, and it looked as though no one wanted reform shoved down their throat. All that commotion frittered with the dying leaves, and for weeks now the story has been Democrat against Democrat as the majority seems to be trying to make a bill that pleases everyone and no one at once.
Well, the House passed a bill, finally, last weekend, and now, we wait to see what the Senate will do. This seems as good a time as any to remember what exactly all this fuss is about.
Last summer, the president told a press conference, “This is not just about the 47 million Americans who have no health insurance. Reform is about every American who has ever feared that they may lose their coverage if they become too sick, or lose their job, or change their job.”
Does any of that describe you?
This much is clear: People with disabilities as a group have greater need for health care than their nondisabled compatriots, and financing those services, even for the minority of disabled people who have jobs, has long been a challenge because of pre-existing conditions.
Action Online is interested in hearing from you on this subject. We’ve heard from the pundits and the politicians. We want to hear from the people. How urgent is health care reform to you? How much reform do you want? What’s the most important reform in your book? Are you satisfied with the way Congress and the administration are handling this issue?
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