For four months this summer the Cover America Tour RV pulled up to the homes of people across America who opened their doors, invited us in, and told us all about their experiences with the health care system.

But this fall they came to us.

Twenty of the story-sharers on this summer’s road tour excursion gathered in Yonkers, NY for Consumers Union’s second annual Activist Summit.

For the three tour crew who spent the summer on the road, it felt like a big reunion with the people got know as we worked our way from state to state. But just about everyone else was meeting for the first time.

Diverse as the range of their stories trying to get quality, affordable health care, the group had (at least) two things in common: outrage with the current system and a readiness to fight for change.

After spending three days together doing everything from honing advocacy skills to sharing meals to touring Consumer Reports labs, these strangers left NY as a charged-up group, inspired by each other’s stories and ready to seize the rare opportunity for change in Washington with united voices.

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