Eric's Law: Pass Health Care Reform With a Public Option
Target:
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.
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.
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.
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.
We signed the "Eric's Law: Pass Health Care Reform With a Public Option" petition!
# 2,911:
12:37 pm PST, Feb 9,
Catherine Archibald, Illinois
I think what Veronica has done, and is continuing to do, for Eric is amazing!
I think what Veronica has done, and is continuing to do, for Eric is amazing!
# 2,910:
9:35 am PST, Feb 9,
Eleanor Phillips, North Carolina
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8:55 am PST, Feb 9,
Adam Weiler, Canada
I've been hearing a lot of Americans complain about how poorly the American Health Care system is. You should really try to improve it, since America is one of the best countries in the world but they don't take care of the sick very well. |
# 2,908:
5:29 am PST, Feb 9,
Rahul Prasad, India
# 2,907:
8:33 pm PST, Feb 8,
Nicholas Pierce, Michigan
I honestly don't understand the reason why this bill has not passed. It costs us 17.3% of our GDP per year for our current system. If we have a system that many other nations have then we'd actually make .2% GDP based on the funds from our Vet funds, SS, MC, etc. That includes covering everyone unlike our current plan, only covers about 85% of the population bankrupting 600,000 people per year, that is flawed for the fraud. The fact that, GM for example, is closing US plants but keeping foreign plants without the worker healthcare costs since the government stretches that cost across the plane.
I honestly don't understand the reason why this bill has not passed. It costs us 17.3% of our GDP per year for our current system. If we have a system that many other nations have then we'd actually make .2% GDP based on the funds from our Vet funds, SS, MC, etc. That includes covering everyone unlike our current plan, only covers about 85% of the population bankrupting 600,000 people per year, that is flawed for the fraud. The fact that, GM for example, is closing US plants but keeping foreign plants without the worker healthcare costs since the government stretches that cost across the plane.
# 2,906:
4:07 pm PST, Feb 8,
Name not displayed, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
# 2,905:
1:30 pm PST, Feb 8,
Nakita Klempa, California
# 2,904:
11:16 am PST, Feb 8,
Ryan Phillips, Canada
# 2,903:
2:45 am PST, Feb 8,
Elena Palumbo, Italy
I'm not U.S. citizen so I can only offer you my deepest sympathy for the fight intrapresa.in Italy health care is still public even though our President to the government (not named him to shame) is trying in every possible way to transform it in private care. with a public system is true that increase a bit 'taxes, but in proportion to the income received, with the guarantee that everyone can receive cure.Le powerful lobbies are the only ones that continue to prevent this only to protect their capital. I firmly believe that in a just society those who have more should pay more taxes to ensure a balance of the system. am with you.
I'm not U.S. citizen so I can only offer you my deepest sympathy for the fight intrapresa.in Italy health care is still public even though our President to the government (not named him to shame) is trying in every possible way to transform it in private care. with a public system is true that increase a bit 'taxes, but in proportion to the income received, with the guarantee that everyone can receive cure.Le powerful lobbies are the only ones that continue to prevent this only to protect their capital. I firmly believe that in a just society those who have more should pay more taxes to ensure a balance of the system. am with you.
# 2,902:
11:22 pm PST, Feb 7,
Tony Medlin, Texas
Pass some form of health care reform
Pass some form of health care reform
# 2,900:
1:32 pm PST, Feb 7,
Jeffery Holliday, Texas
I pay 34% in taxes at $60k income from a fortune 500, and another $8500 per year in Medical/Dental in my mid 30's with no medical problems. The system is broken. We need reform!! For profit medicine is driving us into the ground. Anyone who makes $20k to $120k per year and has actually used the health care system as it is now should hate the medical system and our insurance. Anyone who hasn't used it, sit down and be quiet because you don't know of what you speak. It is nearly irretrievably broken, and insurance is the biggest scam out there. Petition for the government to kick the plutocrats out of our hospitals. I just spent 3k and owe another 1k for our impending birth, and I have insurance!! They wouldn't even see us until we paid. Guess they were planning on leaving the baby in there.
I pay 34% in taxes at $60k income from a fortune 500, and another $8500 per year in Medical/Dental in my mid 30's with no medical problems. The system is broken. We need reform!! For profit medicine is driving us into the ground. Anyone who makes $20k to $120k per year and has actually used the health care system as it is now should hate the medical system and our insurance. Anyone who hasn't used it, sit down and be quiet because you don't know of what you speak. It is nearly irretrievably broken, and insurance is the biggest scam out there. Petition for the government to kick the plutocrats out of our hospitals. I just spent 3k and owe another 1k for our impending birth, and I have insurance!! They wouldn't even see us until we paid. Guess they were planning on leaving the baby in there.
# 2,899:
11:10 am PST, Feb 7,
Name not displayed, Washington
American lives are on the line. For profit health insurance companies needs to have strong competition to bring fairness and cost down. A public option is by far the best way to achieve the goal. With Americans losing coverage at an alarming rate along with even dying because they can not get medical help is not the American way! Fight for fairness. Competition is truly the only way and the American way!
American lives are on the line. For profit health insurance companies needs to have strong competition to bring fairness and cost down. A public option is by far the best way to achieve the goal. With Americans losing coverage at an alarming rate along with even dying because they can not get medical help is not the American way! Fight for fairness. Competition is truly the only way and the American way!
# 2,898:
6:35 am PST, Feb 7,
Christa Booth, Indiana
# 2,897:
3:36 pm PST, Feb 6,
Jerlene Harris, Illinois
The American people need this "Public Option" in the health care bill. Please vote my wish.
The American people need this "Public Option" in the health care bill. Please vote my wish.
# 2,896:
10:48 pm PST, Feb 5,
Name not displayed, California
# 2,895:
8:20 pm PST, Feb 5,
Terri Crispin, Ohio
# 2,894:
6:20 pm PST, Feb 5,
Leticia Onofre, Texas
I find it appaulling that in this day and age, America still cannot get healthcare right. I don't speak only for Eric De La Cruz, but on behalf of my late father. The current healthcare system failed him. He had ESRD (end stage renal disease) due to complications with his diabetes. Most insurance providers refused him coverage because of his condition. He fought for his life for years as he underwent 8 grueling years of dialysis treatment, 3 times a week, 4-5 hours each day... just to be drained, literally and figuratively. He was told endlessly that he would be a good candidate for a kidney transplant, and that he would be added to the list. HE NEVER GOT HIS NEW KIDNEY! He was made to jump through hoops, all the while his health deteriorated. My father, may he rest in peace, decided that he could no longer deal with the pain, and decided to end his life on April 3, 2009. My father was a former U.S. Marine, who lived and died by the creed of "death before dishonor," but I find it deplorable how "our" healthcare system failed him... and countless others. Shame on these insurance providers who decide who lives and dies... because in my opinion, that's exactly what they do.
I find it appaulling that in this day and age, America still cannot get healthcare right. I don't speak only for Eric De La Cruz, but on behalf of my late father. The current healthcare system failed him. He had ESRD (end stage renal disease) due to complications with his diabetes. Most insurance providers refused him coverage because of his condition. He fought for his life for years as he underwent 8 grueling years of dialysis treatment, 3 times a week, 4-5 hours each day... just to be drained, literally and figuratively. He was told endlessly that he would be a good candidate for a kidney transplant, and that he would be added to the list. HE NEVER GOT HIS NEW KIDNEY! He was made to jump through hoops, all the while his health deteriorated. My father, may he rest in peace, decided that he could no longer deal with the pain, and decided to end his life on April 3, 2009. My father was a former U.S. Marine, who lived and died by the creed of "death before dishonor," but I find it deplorable how "our" healthcare system failed him... and countless others. Shame on these insurance providers who decide who lives and dies... because in my opinion, that's exactly what they do.
# 2,893:
2:41 pm PST, Feb 5,
Mark Bowman, Illinois
# 2,892:
12:06 pm PST, Feb 5,
Joseph H., Virginia
It's clearly obvious things need to change. Lets do it!
It's clearly obvious things need to change. Lets do it!
# 2,891:
7:02 am PST, Feb 5,
Joyce Hulsey, Nevada
For to many years the insurance companies have run the way patients are treated, giving the doctors only minimal options for care. It is time the insurance companies get out of the business of determining the treatment and get into the business of coverage determined by each patient's special circumstances, not by what their "rules" are. Please pass this law so others can have the treatments that they need-not what the insurance companies want to pay for.
For to many years the insurance companies have run the way patients are treated, giving the doctors only minimal options for care. It is time the insurance companies get out of the business of determining the treatment and get into the business of coverage determined by each patient's special circumstances, not by what their "rules" are. Please pass this law so others can have the treatments that they need-not what the insurance companies want to pay for.
# 2,890:
1:08 am PST, Feb 5,
Jen Ramos-Rosa, Nevada
# 2,889:
12:53 am PST, Feb 5,
Haley Powell, New York
# 2,888:
11:49 pm PST, Feb 4,
Ankur Mehta, Pennsylvania
I am a United States veteran, activist, and librarian. I live in Braddock, PA. where we are currently dealing with the closing of our Braddock UPMC Hospital. The greed must stop. We live in a society where the greatest ambition we can hope to have is to slave at our jobs until our death. Now, we must also pay for the privilege to be healthy enough to do so. This must end.
I am a United States veteran, activist, and librarian. I live in Braddock, PA. where we are currently dealing with the closing of our Braddock UPMC Hospital. The greed must stop. We live in a society where the greatest ambition we can hope to have is to slave at our jobs until our death. Now, we must also pay for the privilege to be healthy enough to do so. This must end.
# 2,887:
11:21 pm PST, Feb 4,
Jorge Gonzalez, Texas
Pass this law!!
Pass this law!!
# 2,886:
11:18 pm PST, Feb 4,
Karina Perz, Texas
This is very important!!!! We need this law to pass, there are people in this nation suffering!
This is very important!!!! We need this law to pass, there are people in this nation suffering!
# 2,885:
11:05 pm PST, Feb 4,
Flossie Wilson, Nevada
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9:03 pm PST, Feb 4,
Caitlin Alexander, Canada
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5:25 pm PST, Feb 4,
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# 2,882:
3:51 pm PST, Feb 4,
David Jamison, Jr., Pennsylvania
Pass the Bill. If the question of how to pay for it comes up, the answer is simple..Stop the wars that the U.S. is involved in and use that money to fund the Health Care Reform Bill with a Public Option.If more money is needed, close a military base or two. It's time for our country to stop being policeman for the world and re-focus on caring for our citizens.
Pass the Bill. If the question of how to pay for it comes up, the answer is simple..Stop the wars that the U.S. is involved in and use that money to fund the Health Care Reform Bill with a Public Option.If more money is needed, close a military base or two. It's time for our country to stop being policeman for the world and re-focus on caring for our citizens.
# 2,881:
2:57 pm PST, Feb 4,
Alice M Jackson, Pennsylvania
We need a public option. It's been too long...we are the greatest nation on earth...our people are suffering, needlessly. Congress have theirs, give the American people theirs...with the choice of a Public Option.
We need a public option. It's been too long...we are the greatest nation on earth...our people are suffering, needlessly. Congress have theirs, give the American people theirs...with the choice of a Public Option.
# 2,880:
1:10 pm PST, Feb 4,
Name not displayed, Canada
# 2,879:
11:09 am PST, Feb 4,
Ally Houlli, United Kingdom
# 2,878:
8:52 am PST, Feb 4,
Thomas Yaremko, Minnesota
The longer we wait for reform, the more human suffering will occur. Indeed, health care needs to be viewed as a service, not as a business. Any improvement over the present lacking conditions will be a welcome and crucial change contributing to the prevention, treatment and cure of physical and mental health problems. Single-payer universal health care for all is long, long overdue.
The longer we wait for reform, the more human suffering will occur. Indeed, health care needs to be viewed as a service, not as a business. Any improvement over the present lacking conditions will be a welcome and crucial change contributing to the prevention, treatment and cure of physical and mental health problems. Single-payer universal health care for all is long, long overdue.
# 2,877:
8:25 am PST, Feb 4,
Jennifer Valachovic, Florida
# 2,876:
8:09 am PST, Feb 4,
Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
I support health care reform.
I support health care reform.
# 2,875:
8:03 am PST, Feb 4,
Roxanne N, New York
The health care issue has to be addressed. Insurance companies can not be allowed to dictate who will receive medical help. This is immoral and should never have been allowed. Money and not humanity is the driving force behind this policy and it is time to correct the problem.
The health care issue has to be addressed. Insurance companies can not be allowed to dictate who will receive medical help. This is immoral and should never have been allowed. Money and not humanity is the driving force behind this policy and it is time to correct the problem.
# 2,874:
7:53 am PST, Feb 4,
Name not displayed, Florida
# 2,873:
10:50 pm PST, Feb 3,
Sidney Rhoades, South Carolina
I see the only way to get results in this system is to VEO-Vote Everybody Out of office....
I see the only way to get results in this system is to VEO-Vote Everybody Out of office....
# 2,872:
8:57 pm PST, Feb 3,
Jilian McDermott, Arizona
Please stop allowing insurance companies to deny coverage for those with pre-existing conditions. It creates people enslaved to their employers in fear of not getting coverage should they change jobs. Millions of Americans suffer not only from health related causes from this selfish business atrocity but financially.
Please stop allowing insurance companies to deny coverage for those with pre-existing conditions. It creates people enslaved to their employers in fear of not getting coverage should they change jobs. Millions of Americans suffer not only from health related causes from this selfish business atrocity but financially.
# 2,871:
6:54 pm PST, Feb 3,
Zakiya Kangethe, Washington
# 2,870:
6:46 pm PST, Feb 3,
Fatima Barber, Georgia
# 2,869:
5:51 pm PST, Feb 3,
Vance Hall, Canada
# 2,868:
5:35 pm PST, Feb 3,
William Gonzales, Oklahoma
# 2,867:
3:58 pm PST, Feb 3,
Eric Desjardins, Canada
# 2,866:
12:01 pm PST, Feb 3,
James Rapacon, Idaho
# 2,865:
10:10 am PST, Feb 3,
Name not displayed, Ohio
Everyone deserves decent affordable health care. Since the medical and insurance communiities are not interested in providing it, so the government needs to step in to get it for us.
Everyone deserves decent affordable health care. Since the medical and insurance communiities are not interested in providing it, so the government needs to step in to get it for us.
# 2,864:
9:26 am PST, Feb 3,
Bruce Sturgell, Missouri
Health care should not be business first, people second.
Health care should not be business first, people second.
# 2,863:
9:17 am PST, Feb 3,
Christina Simpson, New York
Brought here by Trent Reznor. The health care reform needs to be passed!
Brought here by Trent Reznor. The health care reform needs to be passed!
# 2,862:
8:59 am PST, Feb 3,
Mark Ivan, Indiana
Keep up the good work Veronica. We, the uninsured, need help!
Keep up the good work Veronica. We, the uninsured, need help!
# 2,861:
7:09 am PST, Feb 3,
James Novak, Texas
As a Nation as powerful as the US, how can it deny a man/woman the right to LIVE by denying an individual the proper health care needed to stay alive? I don't understand how one Person controls another person's fate by deciding they are not worthy of medical treatment because they can't afford it, or are not covered properly through there insurance companies. WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO TELL SOMEONE THEY ARE NOT WORTHY ENOUGH TO LIVE!!! This is absolutely ridiculous. We give illegal immigrants a chance to live here and free medical care, raise my tax dollars to provide more programs for these people, and yet a natural Born, Tax Paying, Hard working Citizen, Under the Constitution of the United States is being denied the proper health care because that person doesn't have the proper medical coverage? or is not a qualified candidate for Goverment insurance Programs, because he works for a living and makes to much money!! Things like this make me sick, and I don't know who will read this, or if it will matter at all, but every man/woman in the US should be given an equal opportunity to at least be given a rite to immediate and proper healthcare coverage. Seriously, who has the right to deny a person the right to live?? WHO says one person is better than another based on there income or insurance coverage, or lack of??....Please tell Me WHO has THE RIGHT TO DENY LIFE?? WHO! and if so WHY? WHY are we going to deny a medical procedure to one person, because they don't have enough medical coverage, or can't afford the procedure?? We are ONE NATION UNDER GOD!! With Liberty, and JUSTICE FOR ALL!!!....Oh...wait...Thats only Justice to the RICH!!?? AHH. Now I get it. God bless you SEAN SEMON! I love you!!
As a Nation as powerful as the US, how can it deny a man/woman the right to LIVE by denying an individual the proper health care needed to stay alive? I don't understand how one Person controls another person's fate by deciding they are not worthy of medical treatment because they can't afford it, or are not covered properly through there insurance companies. WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO TELL SOMEONE THEY ARE NOT WORTHY ENOUGH TO LIVE!!! This is absolutely ridiculous. We give illegal immigrants a chance to live here and free medical care, raise my tax dollars to provide more programs for these people, and yet a natural Born, Tax Paying, Hard working Citizen, Under the Constitution of the United States is being denied the proper health care because that person doesn't have the proper medical coverage? or is not a qualified candidate for Goverment insurance Programs, because he works for a living and makes to much money!! Things like this make me sick, and I don't know who will read this, or if it will matter at all, but every man/woman in the US should be given an equal opportunity to at least be given a rite to immediate and proper healthcare coverage. Seriously, who has the right to deny a person the right to live?? WHO says one person is better than another based on there income or insurance coverage, or lack of??....Please tell Me WHO has THE RIGHT TO DENY LIFE?? WHO! and if so WHY? WHY are we going to deny a medical procedure to one person, because they don't have enough medical coverage, or can't afford the procedure?? We are ONE NATION UNDER GOD!! With Liberty, and JUSTICE FOR ALL!!!....Oh...wait...Thats only Justice to the RICH!!?? AHH. Now I get it. God bless you SEAN SEMON! I love you!!
# 2,860:
6:09 am PST, Feb 3,
Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
# 2,859:
5:23 am PST, Feb 3,
FERNANDO DESCHAPELL, Florida
# 2,858:
4:36 am PST, Feb 3,
Tim Neale, United Kingdom
# 2,857:
10:14 pm PST, Feb 2,
Amanda Johnson, Florida
Healthcare needs a reform now more than ever with the current economic crisis.
Healthcare needs a reform now more than ever with the current economic crisis.
# 2,856:
9:47 pm PST, Feb 2,
Aura Ferreiro, California
# 2,855:
7:03 pm PST, Feb 2,
Annegret Pfaendtner, Nevada
# 2,854:
6:25 pm PST, Feb 2,
Name not displayed, New Jersey
This is important to me, and to everyone else. It could one day be important to you as well.
This is important to me, and to everyone else. It could one day be important to you as well.
# 2,853:
1:42 pm PST, Feb 2,
Vincent Pektonowicz, Canada
# 2,852:
1:33 pm PST, Feb 2,
Rosemary Lockard, Texas
# 2,851:
1:07 pm PST, Feb 2,
Laura Lopez, California
