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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Be Skeptical!
For-profit Health Insurance Lobby (AHIP) seeks to Protect Profits by convincing you they can solve nation's health care crisis!
Big insurance promised in 1993 that they could solve the problem, but they only made the nation's problems worse with skyrocketing premiums and rising numbers of uninsured.
REALITY CHECK: $1,000 per year of the premiums paid to for-profit United Healthcare to insure a Rhode Island family of four goes to profits not healthcare!
Across the nation, American's are voicing deep skeptisim about AHIP's launch of a counter-campaign to real healthcare reform.
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Read more... [Action Spotlight]
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If you could shape U.S. health care reforms in the coming years - and help ensure they happen - what would be your priorities? Is universal coverage a must for you, and if so, at what cost? How about lowering premiums? Do you want to minimize people's out-of-pocket spending?
America's Health Insurance Plans, a national trade group, is asking these questions of business owners, consumers and its own members across the country as part of a national "listening tour" that stopped in Rhode Island on Sept. 26.
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Read more... [Health Care for America Now Crashes Insurance Industry's Party]
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More than 20 people came out to Blue State Coffee on Sunday September 14 to see and discuss the first public screening of "Diagnosis Now", the new 9-minute documentary on the health care crisis and the role of the insurance industry.
click picture to watch the 9 minute film
Viewers were surprised to learn from the documentary that half of all bankruptcies in the US come from medical bills, and three-quarters of those dealing with medical bankruptcy face it even though they do have insurance.
The screening was sponsored by OSA and the Brown Chapter of the American Medical Students Association. |
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