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Eric De La Cruz, with his sister Veronica

Eric's Law: Pass Health Care Reform With a Public Option

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U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives and the President of the United States
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Join television journalist and health care reform activist Veronica De La Cruz to lobby Congress and demand passage of a strong health care reform bill - one that includes a public option and prohibits discrimination based on preexisting conditions. Sign this petition for ERIC'S LAW to ensure that more lives like his aren't needlessly lost. Veronica's brother Eric, passed away on Independence Day 2009 while awaiting a heart transplant delayed for years because he was denied insurance.

Today more than ever before, Congress needs to hear YOUR voice supporting the public option and passage of REAL health care reform. Let them know that you will remember who votes against real progress in this battle to save millions of lives like Eric's. Make Eric's Law a reality this year by signing this petition.
Join television journalist and health care reform activist Veronica De La Cruz to lobby Congress and demand passage of a strong health care reform bill - one that includes a public option and prohibits discrimination based on preexisting conditions. Sign this petition for ERIC'S LAW to ensure that more lives like his aren't needlessly lost. Veronica's brother Eric, passed away on Independence Day 2009 while awaiting a heart transplant delayed for years because he was denied insurance.

Today more than ever before, Congress needs to hear YOUR voice supporting the public option and passage of REAL health care reform. Let them know that you will remember who votes against real progress in this battle to save millions of lives like Eric's. Make Eric's Law a reality this year by signing this petition.
We the undersigned, in memory of Eric Alexander De La Cruz, urge you - as an elected member of the United States Congress - to vote for and pass health care reform legislation that not only prohibits discrimination or denial of insurance based on preexisting medical conditions, but also includes a widely accessible public insurance option that offers greater affordability for all U.S. citizens and provides needed competition in the insurance industry.

Eric De La Cruz was a young man from Nevada who passed away on July 4, 2009 while awaiting a heart transplant. Suffering from severe dilated cardiomyopathy that had been diagnosed five years earlier, Eric was denied insurance because of this preexisting condition. He would have benefited from legislation making affordable access to health care, regardless of preexisting conditions, a right of all U.S. citizens. Through his struggle, he and his sister Veronica have inspired thousands to demand that strong health care reform bill, which we will call Eric's Law, be passed by Congress this year.

More than 45,000 people a year die because of inadequate insurance. Please so not let us down. Please do not let Eric down. Most of all, please do not let  millions of uninsured Americans who are counting on you down. Vote to pass health care reform with a public option this year.
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We signed the "Eric's Law: Pass Health Care Reform With a Public Option" petition!
# 742:
10:11 pm PST, Nov 20, Detra Pasby, Nevada
Congress, please pass the health care reform bill, there are so many people with the need for health care and it is not fair that these insurance companies get paid so much but yet so many people are dying because they are turned down by these companies for pre existing conditions. Discrimination is wrong.
# 741:
6:26 pm PST, Nov 20, Lisa Lessard, Colorado
# 740:
10:30 am PST, Nov 19, Lewam Euzuz, Washington
# 739:
9:04 am PST, Nov 19, Bruce Sharp, Washington
# 738:
11:46 am PST, Nov 17, Juli Zylstra, Michigan
I was reading a magazine last night before bed and came across the story of Eric and could not imagine the suffering that must have went on for both Eric and his family!!! I could not imagine me being a mother how horrible that must have been to not be able to help your son or daughter. what has our country come to if we can let mothers and fathers and childern die in front of us because of healtcare fights.. My heart goes out to your entire family!!
# 737:
1:19 am PST, Nov 17, Dina Kluyeva, Washington
On my lunch break today, i found a magazine in which you've written your story. My heart goes to you and your family. Its a tragedy that the country that has the most advance medicine, has very inadequate heath care system... Stupid bureaucracy that claims people lives... I was very touched by your story and I'm very sorry about your loss. I do hope that Eric's Law goes through and that no life like Eric's isn't needlessly lost. Sincerely, Dina Kluyev
# 736:
2:29 pm PST, Nov 15, Ilene Guy, California
# 735:
6:34 pm PST, Nov 14, Brandy DeLeon, Texas
# 734:
10:52 am PST, Nov 14, Lisa Hergenrader, Minnesota
# 733:
10:49 am PST, Nov 14, HMC LAVADOG, Louisiana
It's criminal that the U.S. doesn't have Single-Payer Health Care for all in America.
# 732:
10:46 am PST, Nov 14, Glenn Batuyong, California
Please enact Eric's Law as the road leading to it was a heartbreaking struggle. This is a fight to correct a healthcare and insurance system that is currently flawed against the consumer. People died because of inadequate coverage and expensive procedures with no affordable options for everyday Americans.
# 731:
2:15 am PST, Nov 14, Can Atik, Turkey
# 730:
11:40 pm PST, Nov 13, Ken Cubala, Illinois
# 729:
7:48 pm PST, Nov 13, Richard Dwyer, North Carolina
We need real healthcare reform, it MUST contain the public option to make it complete. Do not compromise away this necessary option for a successful bill!
# 728:
2:40 pm PST, Nov 13, Leana Sinatra, Colorado
As a self employed individual for the past nine years, I know the need for health care reform in this country. Please listen to the people and help us fight for the care we deserve as Americans. Thank You
# 727:
2:10 pm PST, Nov 13, Ryan Witt, Missouri
Dear Senator McCaskill and Representative Carnahan, Please ensure that health care reform is passed with a strong public option that ensures every American the opportunity to purchase affordable and fair health insurance.
# 726:
1:10 pm PST, Nov 13, Alana Ali, Trinidad And Tobago
# 725:
12:37 pm PST, Nov 13, Gennaro Avolio-Toly, California
Hi, I am a cancer survivor. My insurance would not pay for operation to have my eye removed that actually saved my life. I refused to pay and continued to fight. In the end the hospital wrote it off as bad debt. I am a lucky one. That is a sad sad statement. Gennaro
# 724:
12:30 pm PST, Nov 13, Dianna Cortez, Missouri
To Claire McCaskill, Kit Bond, Jay Nixon, Wm Lacy Clay - Please pass healthcare reform WITH a public option. How many people have to die before this is done? Thank you, Dianna Cortez
# 723:
12:09 pm PST, Nov 13, Heather Borden Herve, Connecticut
# 722:
11:34 am PST, Nov 13, Lisa Krueger, New Hampshire
# 721:
9:40 am PST, Nov 13, Timothy Barhorst, Ohio
Make it so! No one should die because of an inability to get health care. No one should EVER go bankrupt paying for health care.
# 720:
7:55 am PST, Nov 13, Paul Molinari, California
Stop the BULLSHIT and get this done STRONGLY. Let's not go down the toilet! Praying!
# 719:
5:26 am PST, Nov 13, Maria Rosen, Florida
I will remember your Healthcare Reform vote when you come up for re-election.
# 718:
5:24 am PST, Nov 13, Lourdes Cantillo, Florida
I will remember your Healthcare Reform vote when you come for reelection.
# 717:
5:04 am PST, Nov 13, Harry Sakem, Pennsylvania
Our current healthcare system is a DISGRACE. Please watch the FRONTLINE special "Sick Around The World" at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/ to see how other countries are providing universal coverage for all their citizens. You will be disgusted and ashamed of our system.
# 716:
5:17 pm PST, Nov 12, Jazmin Ramirez, Texas
To say the least...THIS HAS GOT TO CHANGE!
# 715:
8:10 am PST, Nov 11, Jalyn Smith, Texas
# 714:
8:08 pm PST, Nov 9, Milenka De La Cruz, Sweden
# 713:
4:00 pm PST, Nov 9, Chad Conway, Maryland
I personally donated money to help Eric De La Cruz get a transplant but it proved too little too late. I want to make sure that the people that need the care get it and that LIFE doesn't get lost in the pursuit of $$$$. Disgusting nonsense....
# 712:
9:57 pm PST, Nov 8, Katana German, South Carolina
# 711:
8:59 pm PST, Nov 8, JAIME CANDELARIO, North Carolina
I support health care reform with full public option.
# 710:
4:10 pm PST, Nov 8, TURQ BROWN, North Carolina
WE NEED FULL PUBLIC OPTION - NO STRINGS ATTACHED - PLEASE!
# 709:
3:12 pm PST, Nov 8, Tracey Drobbin, Pennsylvania
# 708:
8:05 am PST, Nov 8, Analicia Martinez, Texas
A person (everyone has some kind of illness) with a pre exisiting should not be DISCRIMINATED against and be denied insurance for health care coverage. This has to change! Insurance companies DISCRIMINATE every day SHAME ON THEM AND SHAME ON THE GOVERNMENT FOR ALLOWING THEM TO CONTINUE THIS PATH. We should be allowed to chose from a Public option or private. We should be the ones to choose what Insurance company we want for our family, NOT THE INSURANCE COMPANY.
# 707:
12:28 am PST, Nov 8, Allison Burns, Washington
Eric was an amazing artist, musician and friend. He will be dearly missed and it is such a shame that this type of thing can happen in our country. Please do whatever you can to rectify this situation. With sorrow, Allison Burns
# 706:
11:57 pm PST, Nov 7, Eve Hersh, Colorado
# 705:
6:34 pm PST, Nov 7, Tony Conner, North Carolina
This should not happen in the Country I love and in the Country my family fought for in every war to date.
# 704:
5:50 pm PST, Nov 7, Jennifer Gardner, Florida
# 703:
4:47 pm PST, Nov 7, Ryan Mccormack, California
god's greatest country without healthcare for all is blasphemy!
# 702:
3:29 pm PST, Nov 7, David Lim, California
the politicians can talk about healthcare reform all they want but it is still not reform for me. What is reform when you cannot even understand all the medical bills. I am receiving bills from Doctors I do not know or have met. I guess being in a hospital is like a buffet for the healthcare professional as they stroll by your room and collect hundreds of dollars just looking at your chart. Have these people no decency? A person is sick. How about the $60 tylenol pill? I kinda of like the Kaiser system where everything is inclusive. I had no idea I would be even sicker a year later trying to recall all the doctor's visits and tests. Transparency is desperately needed.
# 701:
1:57 pm PST, Nov 7, Mari Arriaga, Texas
We all need to stand together!! We are loosing innocent lives because of something so simple. RIP EriC
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