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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Op-Ed: Reform will fix racial inequality in health care |
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Written by Dannie Ritchie and Ivette Luna, column in the ProJo
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Monday, August 10 2009 09:00 |
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THE HEALTH CARE DEBATE is not just about the 47 million people without insurance, or about the quite legitimate fears that the vast majority of the rest of us have about losing or being priced out of the insurance we have.
Though these issues are critical pieces of the reform puzzle - ensuring good, affordable health coverage for everyone is very important - there is another step we must take to ensure equal access to good care. Racial and economic inequality that exists in our health care-system, and indeed in our nation more generally, has devastating effects on patients from minority and poor communities, in terms of their access to care and their overall health.
Read entire column 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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