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By Trisha Torrey, About.com Guide to Patient Empowerment

Tell President Obama Your Healthcare Story

Friday June 26, 2009

Have you had a run-in with the healthcare system in America?

Was it affected by, or did it later affect, your ability to pay for your care, get insurance coverage, or afford healthcare coverage?

If so, President Obama wants to hear about it. And he has provided a way for us to share those stories easily.

While reviewing this possibility for you, I spent some time reading some of the stories that are already there. They are heartbreaking and make me so angry. In every case, they show us the real affects of money vs. health, and what happens when money is deemed more important than health.

As I've written MANY times before: American healthcare is not about health or care. It's about sickness and money, using sickness to make money.

Take a moment to share your story with the President. Then, if you have the time, come back here to share your story, too! Just copy and paste in the comments below, or in the Patient Empowerment forum.

Moving stories will be one way we move healthcare reform forward in positive directions.

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