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Standing ovation (and best wishes) for Beth Ann Salzman:
I want to thank Carol Shea-Porter for having had the courage to stand up and vote for health care reform. This past winter, I had a snarly little cough that I thought was nasal drip. When I had a CT scan in April, I learned I had Stage 3 lung cancer. This came as a major shock to someone who is not a smoker and lives in a smoke-free environment.
Since then, I have had radiation, chemotherapy, lung surgery removing two of the three lobes in my right lung, and I'm about to have more chemo. It has been a difficult journey, but I've got my eye on the prize. And I have been able to go through all this with the peace of mind that because of the new health care reforms, my insurer will no longer be able to write me off their books when the year ends.
...I've also learned that if I did not have Medicare and health insurance, I would be looking at the glass half-empty. Frank Guinta wants to dismantle the entire health care plan. If for one minute he thinks a health care savings plan could pay for the treatment I've had, then we all would have to find mysterious $250,000 savings accounts like he found. He says he wants to repeal Obamacare. As I make this difficult journey, I feel blessed that Obama cares and Carol Shea-Porter fought for health care reform.
Every single one of you reading this has a powerful story to tell about how life has changed thanks to the hard work Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes and Jeanne Shaheen and John Lynch have done - and Annie Kuster will fight to continue - to bring our country out of the hole eight years of Bush and Republican rule feverishly dug.
Please consider writing a letter to the editor to your local paper today. They are among the most powerful elements of voter persuasion out there.
UPDATE: Rep. Shea-Porter sent along this response:
Dear Beth,
Thank you so much for your courage. In the middle of your battle against cancer, you take the time to share your story, so others can see the people behind my decision to vote for the new health care law. I have heard from so many generous people just like you, and I have been privileged to fight side by side with you to win this battle. You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.
