Since taking control of both the White House and Congress earlier this year, Republican lawmakers have wasted no time in their efforts to gut the Affordable Care Act. As Congress has worked to waive, defer, or delay implementation of the law’s provisions, dismantling it piece by piece, the millions of Americans who rely on it for coverage are facing uncertainty about how they will afford health care in the future.
Faced with losing something they love, health policy experts, doctors and analysts have taken to Twitter to proclaim their affections for the soon-to-be-dismantled healthcare law. Under the hashtag #healthpolicyvalentines, on the eve of Valentine’s Day, folks are penning 140-character-or-less poems declaring their devotion to good healthcare policy. Because nothing says romance like affordable healthcare.
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
Helping patients doesn't stop at diagnosis & treatment-
But advocacy and policy too!#healthpolicyvalentines— Bolu Ogunyemi MD (@OgunyemiMD) February 12, 2017
Roses are pricey
And just a formality
When access to care
Reduces mortality#healthpolicyvalentines— Zackary Berger (@DrZackaryBerger) February 10, 2017
Violets are red.
Roses are blue.
Block grants won't harm the poor.
^None of these are true.#healthpolicyvalentines— Daniel Liebman MD MBA (@D_Liebman) February 12, 2017
Roses are red, violets are blue, like continuous coverage, I'm all over you. #healthpolicyvalentines
— Rachel (wash your hands) Nuzum (@raenuzum) February 13, 2017
Roses are flowers
Ferrets are weasels
Vaccines are so much better
For you than measles #healthpolicyvalentines— Deborah Roseman (@roseperson) February 11, 2017
In love and insurance coverage, it seems, you often don’t know what you had until it’s gone.
