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Greetings, Health Care Reform Needed NOW!The next few weeks will determine whether the United States enacts meaningful health care reform or not. The time for action is NOW. Our opponents - the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries chief among them - are spending literally millions of dollars each day to defeat us. Don't let them win. Please call, email or fax your Congresspeople in the next few days and help Labor make its voice heard. We matter. Our families matter. Don't let Congress forget it. Fraternally, Steven Poster, ASC Make Your Voice Heard: Insurance companies are spending $1.4 million a day to stop real health care reform this year – reform that can help all working Americans. We cannot allow the greed of insurance companies and their corporate front groups to steal this opportunity for reform from us. Join thousands of other union members and take action now. Our goal is to send 10,000 messages to Congress in the next few days, and we can only do that with your help. Please write your Congressional representatives today. It’s imperative that Congress pass real health care reform this year. As President Obama told the 2,000 delegates assembled in Pittsburgh for the AFL-CIO convention yesterday: “We’ll grow our middle class by finally providing quality, affordable health insurance in this country. Few have fought for this cause harder, and few have championed it longer than you, our brothers and sisters in organized labor. You’re making phone calls, knocking on doors and showing up at rallies—because you know why this is so important. You know this isn’t just about the millions of Americans who don’t have health insurance. It’s about the hundreds of millions more who do: Americans who worry that they’ll lose their insurance if they lose their job, who fear their coverage will be denied because of a pre-existing condition, who know that one accident or illness could mean financial ruin.” As union members, we must stand united so that insurance companies and their corporate front groups won’t be able to kill health care reform. We need health insurance reform so that no one is ever denied coverage because of a "pre-existing condition." We need health insurance reform so that no one is ever dropped by their insurance company simply because they are too expensive. As AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Rich Trumka told union members yesterday: “What we do in the next two weeks is going to make the difference between winning and losing on health care reform. Today, we’re going to kick off a campaign to really hold insurers accountable—for denying care and shutting people out and using our members’ premium dollars to try to kill a public health care option. Tell Congress and the president we need to rein in our insurance companies and we need real health care reform now. Thank you. |
