Subject:
Maternity Health Care
To:
President Barack Obama
Sen. George Voinovich
Sen. Sherrod Brown
Rep. Michael Turner
October 8, 2009
Dear elected official,
I am a 25 year-old voting woman who lives in Ohio. This winter, I will be graduating in the top 1% of my university's graduating class, and I hope to start my own small consulting business after completing a PhD in Industrial/Organizational psychology. Health care reform is supremely important to me personally for several reasons. Obviously, my dream of owning my own business could be severely compromised if only large corporations can afford to provide health care for their employees. But more personally, my husband and I deeply desire to have children soon, especially because I have a health condition which makes it necessary for me to have children relatively young. However, as it stands today, health insurance companies have the right to discriminate against young women and often make health care over 1.5 times more expensive for women than for young men. As we save up for our first home purchase, my husband and I can not afford the expensive health insurance plans that actually cover maternity costs. This discriminatory treatment should be illegal.
Please do not make young women like me chose not to bear children because they can not afford health insurance. The future of the nation is at stake and as part of the voting public, I expect you to act.
Dayton , OH
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