By Stephanie Aines | Director of Organizing and Training
Over the last few months we've learned about even more deaths from insulin rationing. At least 3 young adults have died recently in the US because they were in between access to health insurance and they could not afford the price of their insulin out of pocket.
Our hearts break for their families and communities.
Our RCA members across the country continue to struggle to afford their insulin or other medications, and wrestle with insurance companies and hospitals. While we're navigating the complex system to keep ourselves and our loved ones healthy, we've been continuing to act.
Activists from the Patient Council surveyed over 1.000 Americans about their perspectives as patients in the health care system. They are now examining the results of the survey to identify their next campaigns and projects.
We are launching a new political and popular education program to train RCA activists in understanding how the complicated medical industrial complex got this way. We are holding monthly conversations in Boston and online to talk through different elements of what we could imagine health care to look like and become. We hope you get involved in one of these discussion! Reach out to organize@rightcarealliance.org for more details on how to join one of conversation groups or start one in your community.
And of course we're keeping up the protests against the pharmaceutical companies that set prices this high. Our Gainesville chapter is holding a vigil in honor of everybody who passed away from insulin rationing in the middle of March. Right DC is holding a Town Hall with local politicians, clinicians and patients to talk about how we can fix this system next week. Our activists in Boston organized a pop-up action outside of Sanofi in Cambridge, MA with mock graves to force Sanofi leadership to see how their prices are killing Americans.
As always, these actions come from all of us who participate and get involved as donors, protest leaders, writers, social media posters, and so much more. We're so grateful to be in this movement with all of you.
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