Scariest Pumpkin Ever
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Halloween is a time for scary things: Ghosts, vampires, witches…you know the list. But in the real world there are things far more frightening than fangs and broomsticks that somehow never get etched onto a pumpkin.
You can chase a vampire away with some garlic or fire, but if the vampire bites you, you’ll be in real trouble. Not from the bite, but from the lack of health care to fix it.
Can you even imagine the reasons your insurance company would come up with to deny that claim? Suddenly, having friends who wear black capes would be a pre-existing condition and blood transfusions would be an experimental procedure.
That’s why we at Working America are hosting the “scariest pumpkin ever” online exhibit. In honor of the season, we decided to put something truly terrifying onto pumpkins: health insurance companies. (Or their logos, anyway.)
We’ve gotten started with a few pumpkins, but we want more. You can see a few more pumpkins here—and while you’re there, print out a stencil to make your own truly scary pumpkin and take action supporting health care reform so that next Halloween, insurance companies aren’t a real-life nightmare for so many of us.
Today’s the Day to Make Your Voice Heard on Health Care
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Thousands of union members, community activists and health care advocates from across the country will converge on Capitol Hill today to demand that Congress pass health care reform legislation that provides quality health care for all.
Today’s rally and lobby day sponsored by Health Care for America Now! (HCAN) is expected to be the largest-ever health care reform rally. It’s taking place from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Upper Senate Park.
The rally will provide a much-needed voice on Capitol Hill for millions of families that are uninsured, under-insured and fed up with being at the mercy of insurance companies. Participants will call for real change in health care, including a public health insurance option for workers and families who either have private insurance or no coverage at all.
Take Our 2009 Health Care for America Survey
Can this patient be saved?
The patient is the U.S. health care system, and the answer is being debated right now on Capitol Hill and across the nation.
Now you have an opportunity to make your voice heard and help shape health care reform to meet the needs of working families.
The AFL-CIO and Working America want to know about your experiences with America’s health care system—what’s working, what isn’t, what costs too much and more.
We’ve launched the 2009 Health Care for America Survey and urge you to give us your input here.
Tallied results of the survey, sponsored by the AFL-CIO and its 2.5 million-member community affiliate Working America, will be shared with national and state leaders and the media. Congress, the administration and the media are hearing plenty about health care reform from drug makers and insurance companies—they need to hear from working families, too.
