Unprecedented Campaign Launces To Win Nat'l Health Reform In 2009
A new national campaign is bringing together millions of Americans to demand quality, affordable health care for all.
Health Care for America Now (HCAN) is being launched nationally by over 100 national and local groups, including CTA and NEA, to assure that the first order of business of the next President and Congress is to pass legislation in 2009 that guarantees quality, affordable health care for all.
HCAN is comprised of an unprecedented coalition.
As part of the effort, Congressional representatives will be asked what side they're on in the a debate between reforms that provide a guarantee of quality, affordable health care we all can count on, or policies where consumers will continue to be at the mercy of the private health insurance industry, left alone to fend for yourself in a complicated, bureaucratic insurance market.
The campaign focused on Congress will be coordinated with efforts of California organizations to press for state-based health reform. California can and should be a leader, because of the urgency of the health care issue in California, because of the size and influence of our Congressional delegation, and because of our experience in developing and debating health care policy.
HCAN offers a bold new vision for health care reform: Americans can keep the private insurance they have, but would also have new options, including a choice of private or public health coverage plans. The campaign also calls for new rules to be enforced on an insurance industry which consistently charges whatever it wants, sets high deductibles, denies coverage based on pre-existing conditions, and drops coverage when people get sick.
Health Care for America Now, a section 501(c)(4) issue advocacy organization, is a broad coalition of nonprofit and political organizations that are working to promote quality, affordable health care for all Americans. HCAN and each of its members conducts and funds only activities appropriate to its tax and election law status.
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For more information, view the Health Access website or:
Sacramento - (916) 442-2308 - 1127 11th Street Suite 234, Sacramento, CA 95814;
Oakland - (510) 873-8787 - 414 13th Street Suite 450 Oakland, CA 94612;
Los Angeles - (213) 413-3587 - 1930 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1210, Los Angeles, CA 90057.
View CTA's Health Care section for additional information.