Huffington Postのインスタグラム(huffpost) - 8月19日 23時04分

Progressive activist Ady Barkan made an emotional pitch for presidential nominee Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night, warning that health care for millions of Americans is at stake in November’s election.⁠
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“Even during this terrible crisis, Donald Trump and Republican politicians are trying to take away millions of people’s health insurance,” Barkan said in a speech relayed from his home in California. “We must elect Joe Biden. ... And then, with a compassionate and intelligent president, we must act together and put on his desk a bill that guarantees us all the health care we deserve.”⁠
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Barkan is in the advanced stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a degenerative neurological disease that has taken away his mobility and his ability to speak without assistance. In order to address the virtual convention, he used a text-to-voice computer program ― the same technology that he employed more than a year ago when he traveled to Washington to testify before Congress.⁠
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The subject that day was “Medicare for All,” a universal coverage proposal that envisions a single government program paying the health bills for every American. At the April 2019 hearing, Barkan offered both a statistical and a personal brief for the idea, describing fights with private insurance companies, ongoing anxiety over high out-of-pocket medical bills and the toll those struggles had taken on his family. ⁠
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On Tuesday night, Barkan talked about those struggles again: “I have experienced the ways our health care system is fundamentally broken ― enormous costs, denied claims, dehumanizing treatment when we are most in need.”⁠
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But this time Barkan wasn’t making the case for Medicare for All, at least not explicitly. He was making the case for Biden. Read more at our link in bio.

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