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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Members of Ocean State Action work to keep President Obama's health reform alive |
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Written by by Maria Armental, Providence Journal
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Monday, January 25 2010 11:39 |
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PAWTUCKET –– Union hat on, Jay Burdick stood outside the Winter Farmers’ Market in Pawtucket Saturday morning handing out fliers asking people to contact their legislators in support of health care reform.
“We still need to … Finish Health Care Right,” the leaflets read. “We Voted For Change! We Demand Lawmakers Follow Through!”
In the wake of Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown’s surprise victory in the Senate election Tuesday, which snatched Democrats of their 60-vote supermajority in Congress — and captured the seat held for 47 years by Ted Kennedy, long a health-care reform champion — local advocates took to the streets to ensure support for President Obama’s proposed health care overhaul won’t fizzle.
“We can’t afford to wait and stick with the status quo that we have,” said Peter Asen, executive director of Ocean State Action, a social advocacy coalition and local organizer of the Health Care for America Now campaign.
Read entire article here.
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