Nearly 3 in 4 Americans are living with a chronic disease. That means chronic disease patients aren't a small, special-interest group; they're the people who use the healthcare system the most, see it the most clearly, and understand better than anyone what's working and what isn't.

Our national poll found that patients across the political spectrum, Republicans, Democrats, and independents alike, report strikingly similar struggles: long waits for a diagnosis, unpredictable costs, difficulty getting the right specialist, and workplaces that don't support them. This experience doesn't belong to one party. It belongs to all of us.

Right now, too much health policy is built around the occasional, healthy user, the person who sees a doctor once a year. But that's not who the system actually serves most. If we want policy that works, it has to be built around the people who rely on the system every week, not the ones who rarely need it.

Send a message to your elected officials today. Tell them it's time to center chronic disease patients, and their day-to-day experience navigating this system, in every healthcare policy decision they make.

This isn't about one bill or one party. It's about building a system that works for the people who depend on it most.