If you ever wonder whether we’re being heard when we, as healthcare professionals, go out there and advocate the big issues, see this latest story that just ran on MSNBC. Al Sharpton covers the deplorable decisions of several states, including Florida, to turn down billions in federal funds to expand healthcare.
A piece of our Local 1991 press conference in Tallahassee, featuring our friend Kathleen talking about the death of her friend Charlene, appears at about 1:25. We’re proud to have helped her get this tragic story into the public view. Let’s hope it makes people as mad as it did us.
A wave of similar media stories about our work has been rising in the past few weeks:
- Think Progress: A 32-Year-old Woman is Dead Because of Political Games
- Orlando Weekly: Falling Into the Gap
- Tampa Bay Times: The Price of Ideology
- Tampa Bay Times Union appeals to Florida voters in the Medicaid ‘coverage gap’
- Miami Herald Union appeals to Florida voters in the Medicaid ‘coverage gap’
- MSNBC: Disrupt Millions falling in health care coverage gap
- MSNBC: Reid Report The victims of the failure to expand Medicaid MSNBC: Politics Nation Almost awesome in its evilness
MSNBC: Now w/ Alex Wagner Denying Medicaid expansion has a human cost
New Republic Democrats Need to Start Blaming the GOP for the Death of Charlene Dill How liberals should talk about the Medicaid expansion
Health News Florida Mother of 3 in Medicaid ‘Gap’ Dies
Huffington Post Sick Woman Falls Victim To Medicaid Coverage Gap, Fears She’ll Follow In Charlene Dill’s Footsteps
Thinkprogress.org This 32-Year-Old Florida Woman Is Dead Because Her State Refused To Expand Medicaid
Miami Herald OP ED: Legislature still has a chance to do the right thing
NYTimes OP-Ed: Healtcare Nightmares (Paul Krugman)