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TEXAS AFT LEGISLATIVE HOTLINE--WEDNESDAY, JULY 22,
2009 Health-Care Reform Drive Intensifies–National Call-In Day on Tuesday, July 28 The next few weeks could decide whether Congress enacts national health-care reform or maintains the status quo of skyrocketing costs, shrinking benefits, and total lack of health insurance for one out of every six Americans. In Texas, the percentage who are uninsured is even worse, and our state embarrassingly leads the nation in the percentage of children who lack even the most minimal health-insurance coverage. Defenders of this awful status quo, including many lobbyists for the insurance industry, are doing their best to slow and kill the national health-care initiative, and it is essential that members of Congress hear more from the vast majority of Americans who support fundamental reform. Texas AFT therefore asks you to take part in a "National Call-In Day" for health-care reform on Tuesday, July 28, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please join your fellow educators and fellow union members and their families in calling your representative in the U.S. House, and tell him or her you and your family want our broken health-care system fixed now. You can use the following toll-free number provided by the national Health Care for America Now coalition: 1-877-264-HCAN (1-877-264-4226). Don't let the people who profit from the current health-care mess stand between you and a decent health-care system! Don’t let them block reform! It's time. Mark your calendar, and call your representative on Tuesday, July 28. (Visit www.aflcio.org/healthcare for more information.) |
