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.
No travel ban or quarantine will seal a country completely. Even if travel could be reduced by eighty per cent-itself a feat-models predict that new transmissions would be delayed only a few weeks. Worse, it would only drive an increase in the number of cases at the source. Health-care workers who have fallen ill would not be able to get out for treatment, and the international health personnel needed to quell the outbreak would no longer be able to go in.
In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.
We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.
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