Until you've looked a parent in the eye and told them their perfect child has a preexisting condition no insurance company will cover, you can't tell me the Affordable Care Act isn't worth fighting for.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of fighting for healthcare reform, particularly the Affordable Care Act, as it affects families with children who have serious health issues.
Ralph Northam's quote highlights the personal and emotional challenges faced by parents of children with preexisting conditions in accessing healthcare. It underscores the need for policies like the Affordable Care Act that protect vulnerable individuals and families from the financial burdens associated with medical care, advocating for empathy and action in healthcare reform.
In practice
During a panel discussion on healthcare policy, you might quote this to emphasize the stakes involved.
I grew up on the Eastern Shore during desegregation. A lot of white parents chose to send their kids to private schools rather than integrate - but not mine. My brother and I both attended and graduated from public schools. It's one of the best things that happened to me.
Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients would have gotten and they died more often of diseases.
The doctor of the future will be oneself.
Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.
The effects of the attacks against health facilities emanate far beyond those immediately killed and injured. They demolish routine and lifesaving health care for all. They make life impossible. Full stop.
When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages.
The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.
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