2025 年 10 月 16 日，《每日矿业公报》报道了密歇根联合公司在密歇根州汉考克市举行的医疗保健全体会议。我们的北部地区经理 Audrey Gerard 讲述了她在医疗保健行业的亲身经历。以下是完整文章的片段、, 您可以在这里阅读。.

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州众议员 Carrie Rheingans（民主党-安娜堡）周三晚间来到汉考克的 Orpheum 剧院，参加 "全民医疗 "市政厅活动，讨论她提出的 HB 4407 法案，即 MiCare 法案。Rheingans 应密歇根联合组织 "Keweenaw Against the Oligarchy "的邀请来到汉考克，并得到了 Keweenaw Indivisible、Keweenaw Mututal Aid Collective、Houghton 郡民主党和 Baraga 郡民主党的支持，与大家分享了该法案的内容以及全州范围内的单一付费医疗系统将如何运作。.

密歇根联合医院北部地区经理 Audrey Gerard 认为目前的医疗保健系统难以为继，因此邀请 Rheingans 来到该地区。.

“杰拉德说：”我们可以让密歇根州成为全国其他地区的领头羊，并通过倡导支持 MiCare 这样的单一支付系统来解决我们的医疗危机。杰拉德是莱茵甘斯发言前的介绍人之一，她分享了自己的医疗债务故事。杰拉德在 21 岁时没有医疗保险，并被诊断出患有败血症，病情十分紧急。她所在的医疗机构无法为她提供所需的治疗，于是她被转到明尼苏达州德卢斯的圣玛丽医院。她接受了治疗，但出院时却收到了 $100,000 美元的账单，这还不包括救护车费用和在威斯康星州的急诊室费用。.

“For the following months, I spent my days figuring out how to readjust my life and become a millionaire so I could pay off all my debts. After all, I only worked for $11 an hour at a history museum at the time. But I realized I had a choice. I had more agency than I originally thought. My choice was clear,” Gerard said. “I could live in shame that this experience happened to me, or I could use my story to move other people to take action. And for all the months I spent in shambles, I started dreaming up ways I could make my private shame a story of public power. I knew that all of this could have been easily avoided if we didn’t live in a for profit health insurance world, and I started posting on social media platforms about my debt...”