Excerpt from: Direct Care Alliance, Inc (click for full article)
I talked about how our on-the-job injury rates are high, but when we get injured we just suffer through it because we can’t go to a doctor to fix what’s wrong. I also talked about how we need to be able to go to the doctor when we get something contagious, so we can get well soon without endangering the people we care for.
I felt very good after speaking, because I noticed that when people were throwing out figures the legislators were talking to each other or taking phone calls, but when I and the other common people were talking, they were really paying attention. That surprised me, because I thought we were in this situation because they didn’t care about us.
Another thing that made me feel good was that I was one of the people who was called back to answer a question. The others were called back to answer technical questions about figures, but I was asked about the humanitarian aspects of the decision and how it would affect people’s lives.
According to what I know about this state, where I have lived for the last nine years, I would say it would be a struggle to get this Medicaid expansion because everyone here is so bound on limiting involvement by the federal government. But I think that is a mistake. There wouldn’t be a lot of federal involvement with this because most of the control for how Medicaid expansion is handled would be handed over to the state, and so many people here need this coverage.
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