Are You an MS Activist?
Written by Ann Pietrangelo on October 29th, 2008 in Health Care Policy, Linked Articles.
In a quiet way, I set out to be an advocate for MS patients like me, joining a long line of passionate patients and bloggers. I didn’t set out to become an activist. That’s for the bold and the outgoing. All that changed when the health care crisis came to call on my home.
I’m not sure what criteria should be met before you can call yourself an activist. The dictionary defines activist as: “an especially active, vigorous advocate of a cause, esp. a political cause.” Okay, so I’m an activist.
If you are participating at The Health Central Network, if you host your own health-related blog, if you write your representatives in congress, if you shout from the rooftops in an effort to educate and inform… you are a health care activist.
Together, we can make a difference. Let’s start by exercising our right to vote on November 4.
