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)