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
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- Finance Reform
- Health Care Reform
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Group works on health bill in R.I. |
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Written by by Felice Freyer, The Providence Journal
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Tuesday, October 27 2009 11:41 |
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Ocean State Action is a founding member of HealthRIght, and OSA's Executive Director Peter Asen is a member of HealthRIght's Executive Committee.
Even as Congress battles over how to overhaul the nation’s health-care system, a little-known Rhode Island coalition is moving ahead with its own home-grown reform plan for this state.
The group, called HealthRIght, got a significant boost recently with a $50,000 grant from the Rhode Island Foundation, which will enable it to move forward drafting proposed legislation.
What’s the point of state-based health-care reform when the Congress is already acting on it?
The answer, says Dr. Nick Tsiongas, who is spearheading the effort, is that HealthRIght’s proposal can build on any national changes — and possibly achieve in Rhode Island what’s politically impossible in Washington.
Read entire article here.
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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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