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An Achilles Heal in Crowd Sourced Advocacy

An Achilles Heal in Crowd Sourced Advocacy
An Achilles Heal in Crowd Sourced Advocacy

Thank you to all my friends you signed the Change.org  “Petitioning Secretary of  Health and Human Services and 3 others Protest High Cancer Drug Prices so all Patients with Cancer have Access to Affordable Drugs to Save their Lives”.

I’m writing about a problem with the petition.

When I re-read the list of petition requests and thought about the low health literacy (and other literacies, financial, civic, …) of millions of people in the US I realized, once again, that there’s a huge mis-match that self-limits this and many other ubiquitous and powerful crowd-sourced appeals. I’m referring to the low health literacy of millions. (Read More) 

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