Read the Original Letter Written by the Pennsylvania Woman Whose Story the President Told Today:

[Playinghardball]

Today, speaking from the Catholic Health Association's annual assembly in Washington, D.C., President Obama outlined the state of health care in America, now that the Affordable Care Act has become part of the fabric of our health care system. In it, he told the story of Debra Lea Oren of Palmer, Pennsylvania. Debra, who suffers from osteoarthritis so severe it put her in a wheelchair, couldn't walk or stand for years. She was in constant pain.

Today, she's back on her feet. Here's why:

Debra was able to enroll in an affordable health plan that covered the surgery she needed to help her walk on her own again. As a result, she can walk to the grocery store. She can cook and exercise. She can get herself to her doctors' appointments on her own two feet (and two new knees).

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/06/09/read-original-letter-written-pennsylvania-woman-whose-story-president-told-today

Originally found on the Obama Diary
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“I walk with my husband Michael and hold hands," she wrote to the President in February. "It’s like a whole new world for me.”

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is what health reform has meant to millions of Americans.





https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/06/09/read-original-letter-written-pennsylvania-woman-whose-story-president-told-today

Originally found on the Obama Diary

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. Real people, with real life struggles. It's enough for me, let's hope the USSC agrees. nt

Last edited Wed Jun 10, 2015, 05:51 PM - Edit history (1)

[freshwest]

2. +1

[Doctor_J]

3. Actually Mrs. Oren would be walking if we had real healthcare instead of for-profit insurance

And the insurance racketeers and death merchants wouldn't be banking hundreds of millions of dollars that should be used for healthcare.

Strangely the Big Media outlets, who are owned by the same people who are getting rich off of Heritage Care, seldom talk about our outrageous costs, skyrocketing prices of insurance and drug stocks, and poor results. Neither do the Republicans, who mysteriously stopped trying to "repeal Obamacare" on the same day they had the votes to do it. Neither do the Dems, except for the few who actually represent working people. Yet these isolated incidents of success are trumpeted loudly.

You're welcome Mrs. Oren. Congrats from me and the others who are footing the bill for your treatment. I am honestly happy for you, but we could have had this "system" 20 years ago, when Gingrinch proposed, but enough Dems and decent Americans stood up against it. I'll save my thanks for the president who passes actual healthcare and the biggest consumer rip-off in history (aside from the perpetual war machine).

[mcar]

4. K&R

The ACA helps people. The end.