With Mitt Romney the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, his wife, Ann, has become the most high-profile advocate for people with multiple sclerosis since Mouseketeer Annette Funicello. From her new post as potential first lady, Ann Romney has done much to raise the profile of an incurable, degenerative illness that afflicts some 400,000 Americans. Local chapters of the National MS Society have been clamoring for her to appear at their fundraisers and other events.But there's a problem: MS advocates say that policies Romney now supports would be detrimental for many MS sufferers, and they are actively opposing these proposals. Which means that Mitt Romney is now at odds with the MS community he and his wife have long supported.Earlier this year, Mitt and Ann made a short video called "Soul Mate" for his presidential campaign in which they talked about what it was like in 1998 when Ann was diagnosed as having the degenerative nerve disease. "Probably the toughest time of my life," Mitt said. The campaign video ended with a pitch for people to donate to the National MS Society.National MS advocates are appreciative of Ann Romney's efforts to help boost the profile of the disease and raise money for the cause, but they are opposing her husband's campaign health care policy proposals, many of which are mirrors of GOP legislation currently pending in Congress. MS advocates believe many of the proposals would be extremely harmful to most people with multiple sclerosis.
this is encouraging, one of the premier groups for sclerosis is speaking out against the Romney care revisited, keeping more with right wing denial then research and development. now i feel more orgs. will expose the republican lack of a heathcare program that favors "we the people" over insurance companies. the more voices spoken the more ears hear.
Mitt Romney's opposition to policies embraced by the MS community comes after years of Ann Romney publicly advocating on behalf of people with MS.
guess he again is not as supportive of Annie as she says he is. remember he's not going to her dressage competition, then she says after that "he's so supportive of me." who's zoomin' who, or is her over embellishment of Utopia a little less then stated?
