Since launching our campaign, we've received numerous personal and professional accounts of caregiving from hundreds of Healthcare United members. You've shared with us the struggles that your patients endure, as well as your own personal struggles. Your essays, stories, pictures and videos have moved us beyond any words that we could share here, and so we've decided to share them in the best way possible: through your own voices.

We've created a compilation video of some of these stories (and there will be more videos to come!). In the video are several of your colleagues, including:

• Amy Lamb, a registered nurse of 15 years, who can't afford healthcare for her children.
• Freda Blacerby, a retired nurse, who became disabled in 2003.
• Ramona Lopez, registered nurse who in her work everyday sees patients who can't afford their medications or won't get test done because they can't afford the copays.
• Linda, who's been in the healthcare field for over 30 years. She stresses why we, as Healthcare United, need to get involved.

Every day, as witnesses, you see why we need to change our healthcare system. We hope that this video shows the urgency of why we need to get things done, and that it illustrates how we, as Healthcare United, can do this together.

As Healthcare United's organizer Mike Dolan says in the video, "if caregivers themselves -- you and others like you around the country -- own the debate, take control of the conversation, become a force...it can actually happen, and indeed it won't happen unless caregivers own the debate."

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