Too long to wait

by Andrea Townsend—Oregon

Every time I go out canvassing I meet the very folks we are fighting for. Last night while we were in a low income neighborhood of Salem, Oregon. I knocked on one door of an apartment complex and a man came to the door. He was clearly very ill, trembling from the effects of Parkinson’s disease. When I told him we were fighting for health care for all Americans he invited me in.

After he signed up he told me that he has no health insurance and will have to wait two years to get Social Security for his disability.

This is unacceptable. All people need to have access to health care when they need it. It is wrong that our health care system forces the sick and disabled to wait years before they can get the care that they need. Two years is too long!

I am so glad that Working America exists because we get people involved directly in the fight for a system that works for us instead of against us.

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