So What to Do?
What to do? Well, as a start, I took myself off to Olympia yesterday, to lobby my state lawmakers.
I tagged along with a grassroots organization called WashingtonCAN, which was there to lobby for better health insurance coverage for all, and also for immigration reform.
In the health care area, WashingtonCAN’s priorities for the 2007 legislative session include health insurance for all children. If it passes, House Bill 1071 would provide health insurance to all children in the state by 2010. Nexy year would be better, but OK, I certainly support this issue.
WashingtonCAN is also supporting Senate Bill 5658, which would make health insurance more affordable for small businesses.
And finally, we lobbied for House Bill 1569, which is intended to reform the private health insurance industry by making it harder for health insurance companies to “cherry-pick” healthy people to collect premiums from and leave the sick folks like me to scramble as best we can for coverage.
The details of this bill, which is probably my best chance of getting the $1 million cap on WSHIP removed or raised, seem to be in flux, so I am not sure that it would solve my problem, even if it passes, or if it would offer a solution in time.
But what the heck, I lobbied gamely for it anyway.
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@ Jeanne Sather 2007.
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