|
Wed Mar 24, 2010 at 10:24:10 AM MST
|
( - promoted by Fong)
Health care groups Change That Works and Health Care For America Now (a coalition of many groups working on health reform across the state), dispute David Sirota and others' call to add the public option to the Reconciliation bill. Here is a statement released this morning.
Change That Works - Colorado and Health Care for America Now - Colorado (HCAN)
Call on Senators to Vote No on All Amendments to Reconciliation
Thanks to the tireless work of our President, our Democratic House and Senate leaders, and advocates around the country, the health reform bill signed into law achieves a milestone on behalf of the health and well-being of the American people. Beginning immediately, no longer will small businesses have to choose between providing health insurance and hiring another worker and no longer will parents have to fight insurers to cover a child with a pre-existing condition. As reform reaches full implementation, not only will 32 million more Americans gain insurance, but Medicare's life will be extended and the country's fiscal condition will improve with more than a trillion dollars in deficit reduction.
Important improvements to the health care reform package and to the student loan program are included in H.R.4872, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act. This bill will make health insurance more affordable to families, close the Medicare prescription drug donut hole, and increase federal support for Medicaid programs. It will also end wasteful subsidies in the student loan program and use the savings to give more young people the opportunity to attend college by increasing Pell grants to nearly $6,000, making them available to more students, and making important investments in minority serving institutions and community colleges. Many of these ideas were advanced with bipartisan support.
We ask Senators Bennet and Udall to support this bill, without amendment. A "no" on amendments is a "yes" on health care and college affordability. (Emphasis added by blog author.) |
| peacemonger :: Health Care Coalition Urges Passing Reconciliation Bill Without Amendments |
| According to the Health Care for America Now website, the following groups are members in Colorado:
9 to 5 Colorado
AFL-CIO
AFSCME
Colorado AFT
Colorado Education Association
Colorado for Health Care
Colorado Jobs with Justice
Colorado Progressive Action (NWFCO/CCC)
Colorado Progressive Coalition
Essence of Illumination and Therapeutic Massage
FRESC
Health Care for All Colorado
National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Assn
National Physicians Alliance
New Era Colorado
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains
Progress Now Action
Rocky Mountain District Council of Labor
SEIU Local 105
Sisters of Color United for Education
Universalist Church of Greeley Social Justice Committee
Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7
Colorado Nurses Association
Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved
American Federation of Teachers
American Friends Service Committee
Colorado Voices for Coverage Coalition
Communication Workers of America
Democracia USA/ Democracia Ahora
Denver Area Labor Federation
Greeley Interfaith Association
Healthcare United
Jefferson Unitarian Church - Peace, Justice, Liberty Task Force
Lambda Community Center
Network of Spiritual Progressives
Northern Colorado Aids Project
Rights for All People/Derechos Para Todos
Colorado Nurses Association
Hunger for Justice
Other groups not mentioned above which have issued similar statements include:
Change That Works - Colorado
Progressive Outreach - Colorado |
Squarestate.net is owned by Open Communications Colorado, LLC. and is not responsible for the opinions expressed outside of our own.
|
|
SquareState.net is owned by Open Communications Colorado, LLC
