Steph Larsen

Recent Activity

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  Steph signed the petition | 4 months ago

  Investigate Harassment of LGBTQ youth at Sequoyah High School & Allow a GSA
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  Steph signed the petition | 12 months ago

  Demand Insurance Company Pay Lesbian Arson Victims
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  Steph signed the petition | over 1 year ago

  Prop. 8 Ruled Unconstitutional! Thank the Plaintiff Couples
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  Steph commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  What's Your Story?

  Lianne, I'm so jealous!  I also have a favor to ask of you.
  
  There's a story I run into frequently from (mostly elder) conservatives in the U.S. that goes something like this: "I have Canadian friends who come to the U.S. for their health care because it's higher quality/faster/etc."  How true and pervasive is this phenomenon in Canada?

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  Steph commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  What's Your Story?

  Thanks for the link, Sally. I'm glad you brought up national health care. A few months ago there was a great New Yorker article on the pathway to a workable health care system. A common thread of each is that they all started from what they had instead of inventing a new system from scratch. It was a good way for me to think about getting reform that works for everyone.
  

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  Steph commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  Sowing Poor Rural Health

  Thanks Andrew! I absolutely will holler, though I've been doing most of my organizing, and thus traveling, in the midwest of late. Health reform ain't gonna write itself, so we should before the insurance companies write it for us.

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  Steph commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  Sowing Poor Rural Health

  The more I learn about the health insurance industry, the more I believe that if you like your insurance, you're either very lucky or have never really had to use it yet.
  
  And while you're signing petitions, sign our health care one at the Center for Rural affairs too! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2715/t/3528/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1416

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  Steph commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  Sowing Poor Rural Health

  Thanks for the comment, Lianne! Ten states - Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oregon and Washington - have banned the practice of price discrimination based on gender.
  
  The thing that amazes me most is that until I sat down to think about it, I completely swallowed their logic of "women cost more because babies are expensive, so their insurance should cost more". And then I realized there are so many holes to that logic - like it takes two to procreate, and that many women choose not to have children.
  
  Then the logic that women go to the doctor more and thus are more expensive is bullocks. Often a woman goes to the doctor for preventative care, which can then mean the woman is healthier and therefore cheaper in the long run.