MoveOn's Top Priorities for 2009
“If this country had universal health care, it would help the economy. Our businesses would not have to be at such a disadvantage competing with global companies whose countries DO have national health care. It would also help individuals and families, economically, as many of us go into debt to have health care, or don't have it at all.”
“I work in the health care industry and everyday we run into patients who do not have health insurance and have to choose between health care and putting food on the table. As the strongest country in the world it is our shame not to have universal health care.”
“I am a health care professional of 47 years, still working because of the economic stresses of our time; but that's another issue. More and more I'm seeing people with severe needs who have NO insurance. In many instances these are people who ARE working and can't afford the obscene premiums they are expected to pay for even minimal coverage. Just the room cost in the hospital I work at is $4,000/day. Reform isn't an option anymore - it's a necessity!”
“I work with a friend who has suffered multiple heart attacks and has also been diagnosed with cancer. Recently I saw him dragging himself around the office, obviously too sick to be here. He explained he needed to keep working to hold onto his insurance. If he left, no insurance company would pick him up because of his pre-existing conditions.”
“I lost a daughter to cancer in July after a fight she couldn't win because she had no insurance. When President-elect Obama said no one in these United States should die of cancer because they didn't have insurance, I knew we had to work to get him elected. My daughter had to go to a county hospital where they died one by one in Houston, TX, one of the cities with the best cancer hospitals. That is when I joined MoveOn and worked with them online and in my city to register and get out the message to vote. My daughter passed away wishing her death would not be in vain. Yes We Did.”
