We are not alone. We have the feeling that sometimes our lives are so difficult that no one would understand the pain and heartache we carry. I find that behind every door I knock on, there is a personal trial on the other side.
When it comes to our physical, emotional, or mental health, we rely on expert treatment. Sometimes help is not available to everyone and it is not affordable. Our current government and medical structures have kept health care of all types out of certain people's reach. We suffer as a society because of it.
I believe in the great work that has been accomplished through new research in health at our public universities like the University of Virginia. It is wrong to lose the funding for researchers and projects because we are stuck in a political limbo by not passing Medicaid expansion.
The health care providers know what they need when it comes to staffing, work conditions, new equipment, retention, medicine, and safety. We can not keep letting these concerns fall on deaf ears.
My family has benefitted from the advances in medicine, and at the same time suffers from the lack of advancement in certain fields and access to affordable treatment of chronic ailments. I am sure we are the norm, not the exception.
Our role as politicians is to provide for the health, wealth, and welfare of our citizens. We need to be diligent and capable of coming to an agreement about the ways and means to deliver needed services. Partisan politics and lobbying money has breached that trust. We now have to decide who is standing in the way and who is clearing a path.
This November 3rd we have a clear choice at the ballot box. Who is making us healthy and safer and who is gambling with our welfare so that only a few benefit ? The ball is in your court.
Angela Lynn, Fighting you you
Candidate for House of Delegates, 25th District
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