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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According to a new report released on October 15 by Ocean State Action as part of Health Care for America Now, health care will be $983 more affordable per year for the average Rhode Island family under the health care reform bill passed by the Senate HELP (Health Education Labor and Pensions) Committee than under legislation passed by the Senate Finance Committee. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse sat on the HELP committee when the bill was being crafted. Neither was involved in the Senate Finance bill.
A typical Rhode Island family of three earning $70,117 a year – the state median income – would pay $983 less in premiums and out-of-pocket costs under the HELP bill.
“Rhode Island families will have good, affordable health care if the Senate enacts the HELP Committee bill instead of the Finance Committee bill,” said Ivette Luna, lead organizer for Ocean State Action. “We appreciate the work that Senators Reed and Whitehouse did to help craft the HELP bill. Now we need them to advocate for its superior provisions as the senate crafts final legislation.”
The HELP bill also will make insurance more affordable by giving consumers the choice of a public insurance plan and by requiring larger employers to contribute to their employees' coverage. The finance bill does neither of these.
The report is available here.
You can contact Senators Reed and Whitehouse to ask them to fight for the HELP bill by clicking 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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