Dear God/ess, Grassroots and political movements come and they go but the REAL Healthcare Reform Movement is here to stay. Last night we had dinner with a large gathering of Single Payer advocates to decide how to sweep Pennsylvania into the win/win position of implementing healthcare for all here in the Commonwealth.

I sat with Donna and Larry Smith, stars of Michael Moore’s SiCKO. I’ve met Donna and Larry before and I just love them.

I found out that Donna was responsible for the story featuring Nataline Sarkisyan on the Dateline special about Healthcare Reform that aired last week. The story is helping Nataline’s mother, Hilda Sarkisyan, take tiny steps towards moving further along in the grieving process. Hilda and her husband were off fighting Cigna Insurance when they received word that Nataline died.

I am concerned for the need for forgiveness in this tragedy. Wendell Potter, Cigna executive and eventual whistle blower, quit his job after Nataline died, just hours after Cigna agreed to pay for the transplant. Wendell went to visit the Sarkisyan’s and apologized for his role in the health insurance game of delay, deny, and ultimately for the deaths of untold thousands.

But forgiveness is not done for the Insurance Companies. It’s not done to let anyone off the hook. It’s done because by not forgiving, you’ve locked yourself in a prison of hate and constriction.

It’s done because if you don’t forgive, you remain in the prison and continue to suffer.

But if you do forgive, you can go anywhere and be free. You can even be locked up behind bars and if you do the work of forgiveness, you are free.

My friend Ammon Hennacy, pictured here, after being imprisoned many times for refusing to pay the war tax, once said that the second he forgave the sadistic prison warden, his burden was lifted. The warden suddenly looked different, like an innocent child of God/ess.

Once we truly forgive the Health Insurance Company injustices, is that when our Healthcare System will truly transform? And not one moment before?

Om, Peace, Amen

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