Civic responsibility.....
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osodecanelaWrote this evening to Senators Feinstein, Boxer & Snowe, as well as my Congresswoman, urging them to support healthcare reform that includes a viable public option. Sent everything email, with hard copies on my business letterhead to go out in the morning's snailmail. I'm still aching over the patient that didn't get her studies done last February, due to cost in the face no health insurance, despite holding down two jobs. She now has widely metastatic cancer.
Dear Sen. Feinstein,
I wrote to you a few weeks ago, imploring you to please support a viable public option for healthcare for the American people. Something has happened since that prompts me to write again.
A woman in her early 60’s presented to my practice last February. She was seen by my physician's assistant complaining of chest pain, abdominal pain, and weight loss. My physician's assistant thought he felt an abdominal mass and he ordered CAT scans of her chest and abdomen, as well as some blood tests.
None of those studies got done. The patient couldn't afford them. She was working 4 days the week at one job, 2 days a week at another and yet, still had no health insurance coverage.
This lady presented to my office again the beginning of September. She went directly from my office, to the emergency room, eventually ending up in the step down unit of the ICU. I cannot go into the details, but suffice it to say she appears to have widely metastatic cancer. Her prognosis is bleak.
Might we have diagnosed her cancer six months ago when she was first seen here? We'll never know, but surely it was an opportunity missed. An opportunity missed, because a woman who was working full-time, had no insurance.
Please Senator, I beg you, we need reasonable healthcare reform now, which this medical provider believes must include a public option. Tragedies like this patient’s story are a national disgrace. A country with the resources that ours has, a land that spends more per capita on health care than any other in the world, should not have so many people that fall through our system’s ‘cracks’, as this poor woman did.
Sincerely,
Dear Sen. Feinstein,
I wrote to you a few weeks ago, imploring you to please support a viable public option for healthcare for the American people. Something has happened since that prompts me to write again.
A woman in her early 60’s presented to my practice last February. She was seen by my physician's assistant complaining of chest pain, abdominal pain, and weight loss. My physician's assistant thought he felt an abdominal mass and he ordered CAT scans of her chest and abdomen, as well as some blood tests.
None of those studies got done. The patient couldn't afford them. She was working 4 days the week at one job, 2 days a week at another and yet, still had no health insurance coverage.
This lady presented to my office again the beginning of September. She went directly from my office, to the emergency room, eventually ending up in the step down unit of the ICU. I cannot go into the details, but suffice it to say she appears to have widely metastatic cancer. Her prognosis is bleak.
Might we have diagnosed her cancer six months ago when she was first seen here? We'll never know, but surely it was an opportunity missed. An opportunity missed, because a woman who was working full-time, had no insurance.
Please Senator, I beg you, we need reasonable healthcare reform now, which this medical provider believes must include a public option. Tragedies like this patient’s story are a national disgrace. A country with the resources that ours has, a land that spends more per capita on health care than any other in the world, should not have so many people that fall through our system’s ‘cracks’, as this poor woman did.
Sincerely,
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Date: 2009-09-09 04:49 am (UTC)i read your post just after signing this petition:
http://healthcare.kucinich.us/petition/
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Date: 2009-09-09 05:05 am (UTC)