Dear AFSCME Brothers and Sisters,

We've been saying it all along, but today we're saying it even louder: our nation deserves nothing less than quality, affordable health care for everyone. 

Here's what's happening. On Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee passed its health care reform bill and it is deeply flawed. It is not the real health care reform that working families need — reform that is a moral and economic imperative.  

Fortunately, there are cures for what ails the Senate Finance Committee bill:

• Affordability: Working families should not be forced to spend money they don't have. Penalizing those who do not obtain coverage only adds insult to injury.
  
• A public health insurance option: 68% of Americans agree we need a robust public option that provides real competition to insurance companies and lowers costs.
  
• No taxes on health plans: Reform should not be funded on the backs of workers whose plans have high costs for reasons that have nothing to do with wasteful spending or unnecessary care.
  
• Real employer responsibility: All but the smallest employers should have to provide health care coverage or contribute to a fund to pay for subsidies for their workers.

Please add your name to AFSCME's petition to the U.S. Senate for real health care reform — nothing less. When you do, a copy will go to your senators.

Click here to add your name now: http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/sfc_vote

We're closer than we've ever been to health insurance reform. We can't afford to let the insurance companies and their lobbyists win by passing the Senate Finance Committee's flawed bill. The stakes are just too high for middle class families.  
 
In solidarity,

Tracey Conaty
AFSCME e-Action Network 

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