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Tweets on health care (two words), DC statehood, women leaders | Former @USofCare, #HHS44, @DNC | boy mom x 2 | she/her Opinions are mine (but you knew that)
May 25, 2022 10 tweets 3 min read
How are parents supposed to manage? No one said parenting is easy, but this country has declared an all out assault on families. 1/ You have the nerve to get pregnant and may not want to carry it to term? Too bad. Abortion access is already atrocious, and about to become nonexistent in much of the country. 2/
nytimes.com/2022/05/03/ups…
Mar 13, 2020 5 tweets 1 min read
In @USofCare 's 40 hours+ of talking to people across the country about their health care experiences, we heard time and again stories that boiled down to people feeling alone. Our health care system creates and reinforces seclusion and shame. And while we hear different stories with these similar themes over and over again, there is no sense of shared experiences. It is me-against-the-system in every case.