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Emmy-award winning actor Edie Falco wants you to join her and thousands of other union and community activists in Washington, D.C., June 25 in what will be the largest rally ever for health care reform.
In a just-released video from rally sponsor Health Care for America Now! (HCAN), Falco also unveils the group’s new health care reform text alert campaign.
The former “Sopranos” co-star and star of the new series, “Nurse Jackie,” says:
Together, we are going to let Congress know that we will not wait another moment to fix our broken health care system.
Falco relates how she spent many years without health coverage, “hoping your symptoms will go away before you have to get the money to see a doctor.” Now she has good health care, she says.
I’m grateful for this. I also know that no one person is any more worthy of such treatment than any other one person who may be sitting at home right now worried about their own health or the health of a loved one knowing they don’t have the money to take care of it. We have got to fix health care, and we have got to do it right now.
In the video, Falco launches HCAN’s new text message rapid response program. You can text “HEALTH” to 94553 to receive updates on fast-moving health care reform activities throughout the summer. The text alert campaign also will allow HCAN to continue to organize and mobilize its more than 1,000 member organizations representing more than 30 million people nationwide. Says Richard Kirsch, HCAN’s national campaign manager:
Insurance companies and some conservatives are already lying to the public about President Obama’s health care proposals. He wants to let everyone keep their private health insurance or join a new public health insurance plan, and we’ll use the same technology the president used during his campaign to fight back against the mischaracterizations and make sure everyone in America knows the truth.
For more information and to sign up for the rally, visit www.HealthCare09.org .
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Nothing beats large numbers of people clamoring for action to be taken!
See you in Washington on the 25th.
http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2009/06/apparently_were_not_getting_mu.html
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”
We want health care equality. We also want our health care to be more affordable and better quality. To achieve all of that, we will need to reform our current system by retooling the methods of financing. By changing the way that health care is paid for, single payer health care can eradicate the disparities and inequalities while simultaneously improving quality of care for everyone. This increase in quality will also cost less. I’m eager to talk to you about how this can only be accomplished with single payer.
More here: http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2009/06/apparently_were_not_getting_mu.html