My Friends I have a question for you today.  Is access to Healthcare A Civil Rights, or Human Rights Issue. The reason I ask this is : We The Uninsured in America Face this. We have a problem that is Not going away ! We sit in Limbo waiting for the next shoe to drop. We have limited or no access to Doctors in many cases . The reason is we do not have enough money to pay for Healthcare. We Should have been insured by now When Medicaid Expansion was added to the ACA ! But no WE THE UNINSURED ARE STILL WAITING ! Waiting Sick, Suffering, and dying ! 3 Million of us in 18 States who refused to #ExpandMedicaidNow !

Our Governors in these states decided to use lame excuses not to #ExpandMedicaidNow ! Such as  : Fears of Federal Matching Funds not being there.,Or Taxes going up !  Stupid excuses when the reality is a Dislike of President Obama ! Yes this dislike is causing people to suffer.

Because of this Public Hospitals are closing and will continue to close at alarming rates. Not just the Uninsured need A Hospital we all do ! Public Hospitals are the safety net for the poor also. As it it is their primary seource for Healthcare. As they have no access to Primary care. 

So We face potential Public Health nightmare scenarios :
1. What if A Situation Like #FlintWaterCrisis, in Flint Michigan happens in a State that has no Medicaid Expansion ?
2. What if the Yukka Virious or any infectious disease Spreads ?
A : You have a Public Health Disater with many kids dying or disabled. Or Adults sick and dying needlessly ! 

This is not a game anymore ! We got lucky with SARS, BIRD FLU, AND EBOLA. But next time maybe not so.

This lack of access to Healthcare Is A Civil Rights and Human Rights Issue. If services are not provided to all what is it ? A case of Discrimination.  Not just by race but econmoic as well ! Many of the Uninsured are minorites or disabled ! And being such have rights guaranteed to them that in this case are ignored ! As a Disabled adult I have a right to reasonable accommodation. This is  in everyting but Healthcare in my state of Fl.  Which refuses to #ExpandMedicaidNow ! So is blocking access to services like Healthcare, like blocking acess to Voting Rights ? This makes it a Civil Rights issue. As not all have access to Medical Care !

It also is a Human Rights Issue, due to people’s abilaty to be able to access medical care.

My inspiration as an Activist was Dr Martin Luther King Jr.  I know he would not be silent on this issue ! He would be appalled after hearing the story of 21 yr old Gen Rodriguez rating life saving Respiratory Medicine . The reason she does this is : She is Uninsured,  and it cosrs $10,000.00 per month to keep her alive with proper medicines ! 

To me the Governors and Legislatures who refuse to #ExpandMedicaidNow are acting like Gov. Wallace at the School ! He was blocking access then ! And My Governor Rick Scott is doing the same thing now – Only with Heathcare. Leaving 1 Million Uninsured Stranded !

So I Close my friends with a few Questions
1. Is This A Civil Rights Violation ?
2. Is This A Human Rights Violation ?
3. What are you going to do about it ?
4. Will You Fight to #ExpandMedicaidNow ?
5. Or will your silence and inaction continue to kill many more of the sick !

Memes by Wallace Ingalls Vote Blue Facebook @VoteBlueNation Twitter Theresa Brown Gold – Art as a Social Inquiry.

Thank You All
God Bless