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!
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Reform Advocates Picket UnitedHealthcare |
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Written by Marion Davis, Providence Business News
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Monday, September 28 2009 11:26 |
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Health care reform advocates held a protest outside UnitedHealthcare of New England’s offices in Warwick on Tuesday, Sept. 22, as part of a national day of protest against insurance industry practices the advocates say put profit over people’s health.
United is part of UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH), one of the nation’s largest for-profit health insurance companies and the subject of several controversies in recent years involving everything from executive compensation to allegedly improper use of billing databases.
As health care reform discussions gather steam on Capitol Hill, MoveOn.org is rallying the troops on its side of the debate, and in Rhode Island, it partnered with Ocean State Action and the Health Care for America Now campaign to hold last week’s rally.
At the event, Ed Benson, a retired university professor from Pawtucket and member of Moveon.org, spoke about his wife, Sue, and her experience with United when she had cancer in the late 1990s. After a six-hour operation to remove ovarian cancer cells that were found when she was having fibroids removed, he said, her doctor told her she would need four or five days to recuperate. But United would only pay for two days, so she was sent home.
Read entire article here.
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