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She was having a mastectomy on the table for breast cancer. They wanted me to tell them her diagnosis and to justify her overnight stay. As I was leaving that day, I picked up my phone and I said, I just need someone to know. I got a phone call into the operating room saying that

United Healthcare wanted me to call them about one of the patients who was having surgery today, who was actually asleep having surgery. And I was like, do you understand that she's asleep right now and she has breast cancer. What happened is the big insurance company sent me a very threatening six page six page letter telling me to apologize for speaking out to remove the posts

to say that I had lied which I had not and they said I was I was fomenting violence because there were comments online saying you know we hate insurance companies etc. I called an attorney who agreed to take my case pro bono. He said, Elizabeth, do you want to make this go away?

Or would you like to make a difference? And I let the world see how insurance companies treat us when we stand up for patience. And they had stamped on the top of that letter, they had stamped confidential. And my attorney said, bull. And by the way, partisanship? Like, our patients, our patients deserve

that every four years Health care is not up for debate. Period. Period. So, like, there is no sides. This is a right, a human right. It should be an American right. I will sit in a room with anybody who wants to do something for patients and health care workers. We are going to change health care in America, and that is part of the story.

We are going to create the Speak Free Act that protects us when we tell the truth professionally. about what is going on in health care.