HealthcareActivist.org

Not another screaming voice doing nothing

There is plenty to scream about in the healthcare space in the USA. And it doesn’t matter what your role is; patient, doctor, nurse, hospital, insurance, there is ample material to give migraine from the side-eyeing.

But as much as it’s fun and satisfying to watch a pissed off nurse rant about the unfair treatment of nurses at facility X, and threats at facility Y, violence at facility Z, this doesn’t do much to effect change.

Not that there isn’t tremendous value in keeping the focus going, shining the light in the corners where the roaches go, there is. But it’s easy to kinda get lost in the righteous indignation swamp and forget some very basic facts.

• A bazillion likes won’t change a policy
• That strongly worded Facebook post won’t move the needle of change
• Big audiences don’t mean shit if not organized so that the attention and energy of the group is focused on enabling some concrete activity

That’s why we decided not to be just another loud voice or cloud of angst. We want to bring the voices together, gather the wisdom and power of the crowd, and then Get Shit Done.

So union talk, petitions to sign, political actions like ‘Send a Letter’ and ‘Send a Message’, frank and open discussions that may be hard for a single influencer or leader to discuss for fear of reprisals, all these have a home here.

But we need help. We need a little money, Most important we need you to share this with anyone you think might actually care.

In the meantime, we’ll keep looking for partners to expand the reach of the message without diluting the message. Adding color to false black and white choices is always a fav.

Take care of each other, shit’s getting weirder and weirder out there. Never been a more important time for this…