Ocean State Action celebrates
2nd Annual Health Care Policy Heroes!
Please Join Us to Honor
State Representative Ray Sullivan,
SEIU 1199,
and Nancy St. Germain
Guest Speakers to include:
Margarida Jorge, National Field Director for Health Care for America Now (HCAN), formerly of SEIU, AFSCME,
and Missouri ProVote
Jeff Blum, Executive Director of USAction
Monday, June 21st, 2010, 6PM - 8PM
Local 121, Providence
Get your tickets here.
Tell Congress: Protect Consumers and Hold the Big Wall Street Banks Accountable!
Call Senator Jack Reed Toll Free TODAY at 1-866-544-7573.
Tell Senator Reed to support financial reform that holds big Wall Street Banks accountable.
Historic health reform has passed! The bill is a victory for the American people:
- Insurance companies can no longer deny care for pre-existing conditions, charge you more if you’re sick, cap your benefits, sell you junk insurance, or raise rates with impunity.
- For the first time, Members of Congress will get their health insurance from the same system regular Americans do.
- Small business and working families will security and stability knowing they can afford good health insurance that meets their needs.
- 32 million uninsured Americans will get affordable coverage, saving over 30,000 lives per year.
Read an op-ed from a Rhode Island emergency physician explaining why we need reform.
Now write your own!
- Health Care Policy Heroes
- Flat Tax Repeal
- Finance Reform
- Health Care Reform
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The biggest step forward yet in the fight for health care reform just happened this weekend.
The US House of Representatives has passed a major health care reform bill, with Rhode Island Congressmen Patrick Kennedy and Jim Langevin voting yes!
The House health care bill includes most of our top priorities for reform. It makes coverage more affordable for people who have and who don't have insurance now; it forces the insurers to change the way they do business and gives consumers the choice of a public insurance plan; it begins to reduce health disparities; and it is funded through fairly, by increasing taxes on millionaires, not by taxing health care benefits.
Unfortunately, the House legislation included a provision, supported by Congressman Langevin, that will deny some women access to abortion services, a standard benefit now available on the insurance market. We are going to continue to work to see that women have access to comprehensive health coverage in the final bill that passes.
We need to keep working to make sure that the Senate bill is as strong as the House bill, and that the final legislation is stronger yet. But for now, it's time to say Thank you! and encourage our congressmen to keep fighting!
Call Congressman Kennedy (729-5600) and say THANK YOU for voting Yes on the bill and "No" on the anti-choice Stupak amendment.
Call Congressman Langevin (732-9400) and say THANK YOU for voting Yes on the bill. Also say you're disappointed that he voted Yes on the anti-choice Stupak amendment, and urge him to work to find a common-ground solution for the final bill that does not further restrict access to reproductive services.
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Visit the Rhode Island Policy Reporter at What Cheer! for up-to-date policy analysis and reports.
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