Dead iPhone metaphor: 86/100
22 October, 2016 | Index
Dear Hillary Clinton,
Gerard Mclean here, from Englewood, Ohio, about ten miles north of Dayton. This is the eighty-sixth letter of one hundred I am writing you on health care; one for each day between your nomination and your election. The previous letters can be found in your USPS mailbox or online at 100HRC.com.
When I woke up this morning, my iPhone was dead. It took a while of plugging it in and such before it restarted. It annoys me because it was fully charged, it was in a battery case that was fully charged and it was plugged in. There was no way it should have drained the battery.
Ten years ago — even five years ago — a dead mobile phone would have been a minor annoyance at best. But today, everything is attached to that phone portal, like two-factor authentication, identity, banking, social media contacts — a dead battery matters a lot!
As the next premium payment for Anthem BC/BS of Ohio is just around the corner, this “dead iPhone” became a metaphor for the lack of control we have over almost every aspect of our modern life. One such example is the ACA promising portability, yet most “affordable” plans for me only work in Ohio, limiting my health care coverage. I need an expensive PPO to live how I need to work.
The list goes on about how grabby and controlling corporations are getting, like my iPhone. Without it, I am essentially dead to the world. Without flexible health care coverage, I am literally dead to the world.
This is not freedom!
We need the freedom of mobility SinglePayer, MedicareForAll, UniversalCare can provide. Let’s work on that together. (You can call or text me; I bought a new iPhone as I can’t risk the uncertainty of a dead battery… same number)
Regards,
Gerard McLean
cc: Sen. Sherrod Brown
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