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Dear Elizabeth,
Just moments ago, President Obama electrified
the thousands of attendees at the AFL-CIO
Convention in Pittsburgh. He spoke powerfully
about the importance of unions, and our urgent
need to rein in insurance company abuses and for
real health insurance reform. Building on this
momentum, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Rich
Trumka exhorted attendees to heed the
president’s words and take action.
AFT President Randi Weingarten
underscored the call to action for insurance
reform, and delegates and activists responded by
getting started right on the convention floor.
They are making calls to their friends
and local unions asking them to put together
actions to expose the big insurance companies
that are blocking meaningful reform. It is truly
inspiring to see so many union members in one
place taking action together.
We need you to amplify their voices by sending a
message about health insurance reform directly
to Congress. Our goal is to send 10,000 messages
to Congress in the next 24 hours, and we can
only do that with your help.
Join AFL-CIO Convention attendees and
take action now.
We need your help to make sure Congress passes
real health care reform this year. As President
Obama said just moments ago:
We’ll grow our middle class by finally
providing quality, affordable health
insurance in this country. Few have fought
for this cause harder, and few have
championed it longer than you, our brothers
and sisters in organized labor. You’re
making phone calls, knocking on doors and
showing up at rallies—because you know why
this is so important.
You know this isn’t just about the millions
of Americans who don’t have health
insurance. It’s about the hundreds of
millions more who do: Americans who worry
that they’ll lose their insurance if they
lose their job, who fear their coverage will
be denied because of a pre-existing
condition, who know that one accident or
illness could mean financial ruin.
President Obama knows we need health care
reform. You know we need health care reform, but
the insurance companies and their corporate
front groups are fighting desperately to stop
it. We're not going to let them do that. We need
health insurance reform so that no one is ever
denied coverage because of a "pre-existing
condition." We need health insurance reform
so that no one is ever dropped by their
insurance company simply because they are too
expensive.
As President Obama and Rich Trumka said, we need
health insurance reform now! Trumka told the
convention delegates moments ago:
Health care reform—our time is NOW! And we
are FIRED UP! What we do in the next two
weeks is going to make the difference
between winning and losing on health care
reform. Today, we’re going to kick off a
campaign to really hold insurers
accountable—for denying care and shutting
people out and using our members’ premium
dollars to try to kill a public health care
option.
Tell Congress and the president we need
to rein in our insurance companies and we need
real health care reform now.
Thank you,
Arlene Holt Baker
AFL-CIO Executive Vice President
P.S. Insurance companies are spending $1.4
million a day to stop health care reform. We
cannot allow insurance company greed to steal
this opportunity for reform from us.
Take action today.
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