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Remember: Today is National Call-in Day for Health Care. We all need to call our representatives in the U.S. House today and tell them to support the House health care reform bill, (H.R. 3200).
Call 1-877-264-4226 or e-mail or fax your lawmaker with the same message. Click here to find your representative and his or her contact information.
The House bill contains a public health insurance plan option and shared responsibility, including an employer “pay or play” requirement—and does not tax health care benefits working families receive through their jobs.
But get this: The AP is reporting today that the public option is in danger—making it even more necessary for us to tell Congress.
National Call-in Day is sponsored by Health Care for America Now! (HCAN) and supported by AFL-CIO unions, state federations, central labor councils, community allies and health care advocates.
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House Committee Rejects Closing Health Coverage Loophole for Illegal Aliens
During consideration of the health care reform bill (H.R. 3200), the House Ways & Means Committee rejected an amendment that would have helped ensure illegal aliens would not receive taxpayer-funded health care benefits.
The amendment, offered by Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV), would have required the government to verify that enrollees in the “public plan” and applicants for “affordability credits” are not illegal aliens. Eligibility verification would have been determined by using existing databases — the Income and Eligibility Verification System (IEVS) and the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system. The Heller amendment would have addressed many of the same concerns that FAIR raised last week about whether illegal aliens would be able to receive taxpayer-funded health care benefits. Speaking in support of his amendment, Congressman Heller stated: “Requiring citizenship verification for enrollment would ensure only citizens and legal residents receive taxpayer funded healthcare.”
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http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=21085&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1721#1
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See also:
Amnesty and Joblessness (PDF)
http://www.fairus.org/site/DocServer/amnesty_joblessness.pdf?docID=%202701
Is it time to march? It seems the American people need a dynamic way to influence policy making in our nations capital. Is it time to march? We’ve become inactive as a people, due in large part to the fact that we’ve conceded important decision making to our representatives in government; relinquishing any public ability to influence. We’ve fallen asleep. Is it time to march? We’ve to long allowed our respective central administrations to do whatever they wanted to include declaring war, allowing powerful lobbyists to frame everything from energy, illegal immigration, bailing-out banks and auto companies to disproportionately legislating for the very rich at the expense of the middle class. Is it time to march? We need to make an impact statement on approving a meaningful healthcare reform program by perhaps organizing the program equivalent to the civil rights marches, the “million man march” and others on DC. We need a group like the AFL-CIO with alliances from MoveOn, Common Cause, the ACLU and others to coordinate the largest
display of public support that has ever been assembled. Is it time to march? I’d say so.
The rally and lobby day to celebrate Medicare’s 44th Birthday, in Washington, DC on July 30th, is shaping up.
The rally starts at 1 PM at Upper Senate Park, but we need some help dropping single-payer healthcare information off to every member of Congress from 9 to 11:30 AM. Email info@healthcare-now.org if you’re interested in helping.
We have a full list of speakers, a new flyer, a transportation guide, and a list of buses from around the country available.
For all the details and information, visit our Medicare’s 44th Birthday Page.
Are you planning an event in your area to Celebrate Medicare’s Birthday? Let us know and we will post it online with other events around the country!
Thanks for all that you do,
Healthcare-NOW! National Staff
If the words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” do nit include the absolute rights to health care then they have no meaning at all.
We’ve had big business running health care, so now do we really want big government running it for us. I think I would prefer the former, as the latter has more ultimate power.
And I just don’t see where the “absolute right to health care” is an unalienable right innumerated in our Declaration of Independance. Even if it was in there somehow, is it then government’s job to enforce that right. Very, very slippery slope here.
we need to have people in washington have the same health care that we have then something will get done all so to fix s.o.s is for washington to pay back the trillions of dollars they toke out of s.o.o then every thing will be fine for the country