HCR Vigil Tonight in Times Square

TV Guide reporter Veronica De La Cruz will speak tonight at 6 o’clock on how the current health care system failed her brother Eric.   Eric De La Cruz died while waiting for a heart transplant that was denied and delayed because he could not get insurance due to a pre-existing condition.  Despite five years [...]

Veronica Blogs at HuffPo

It is with the heaviest heart and through many tears that I share this story.  My fight for health care reform is a personal one, and one that I feel I need to share. –Veronica De La Cruz, Huffington Post article
I’m thrilled to see Eric De La Cruz’s story being told to an audience [...]

Eric’s Law: Signing of the Times

Here’s a great big thank you from Veronica De La Cruz.  She pushed for a goal of 500 signatures by midnight last evening petitioning Congress to do Health Care Reform right.  That means a public option to guarantee competition.  Americans do not deserve to be left at the mercy of ruthless insurance companies.  And it [...]

Eric’s Law

Since TV Guide reporter Veronica De La Cruz lost her brother in July 2009, she has carried his story from coast to coast hoping Eric’s life and struggle would move people to understand the urgency and necessity of real health care reform.
When does she breathe?
She is hoping to get 500 signatures by the end of [...]

De La Cruz Making News

TV journalist Veronica de la Cruz mourns her brother who died on July 4th of this year, but grief only fuels her determination to help get meaningful health care reform for all Americans.  She appeared this week on Fox in Los Angeles to tell her brother’s story.  Eric was waiting for [...]

Remembering Eric De La Cruz

Living and dying, he reminds us how sweet life is and why we fight for it. He inspired his sister to move a mountain and showed the rest of us that love is an inexhaustable resource. God speed.
Here’s a short release from Spinner dot com:
Eric De La Cruz, the 27-year-old whose need for a heart [...]

Update: Eric De La Cruz

Eric De La Cruz has a shot at life because people on social networking sites rallied behind his sister’s plea for help.  Veronica appeared on The Mike and Juliet Show today telling the story.   A stat was offered up that 17 people die each day in America waiting for a transplant.  [...]

Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter UCLA Transplant Center

Help Save Eric De La Cruz
I’ve got a string of expletives running through my head that would make a dock worker blush.  Read this excerpt of a note I got from Eric De La Cruz’s sister, Veronica:
They are denying him because now they say he needs supplemental insurance (which no one will give to [...]

Another Victory for Eric De La Cruz

Here’s a really positive development!  I’ll let Veronica do the talking:
Friends,
After five years of fighting for Eric’s disabilty, I am pleased to announce that the judge has ruled in Eric’s favor. I cried. My mom and brother were hugging me, each other, whoever they could. Doctors and nurses have high-fived. I’ve been on the phone all [...]

Eric De La Cruz: Money or Your Life

No one should have to beg to live, but this is what an American is reduced to if they have a preexisting condition and a health crisis.  Twenty-seven year old Eric De La Cruz is diagnosed with weeks to live, but his doctors say that’s an optimistic time frame. KTNV reports:

Trent [...]