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Just say YES to health reform

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Consumer Action joins hundreds of national organizations, representing health care consumers, seniors, unions, faith groups, communities of color, and many other constituencies to urge Congress to Vote “Yes” on health reform—because the cost of doing nothing is much too high. The following is a national, two-page ad that appeared in influential Congressional publications on March 17. Click here to make a call to your representatives.

• Ending enormous premium increases – like the huge increases recently announced in many states
• Banning denials of coverage to children and adults with pre-existing conditions
• Restricting insurance company practices that charge higher premiums based on gender and age
• Helping small businesses so they can afford to provide decent health coverage for their workers
• Curbing health care costs so businesses can grow and provide better wages for their workers
• Preventing families from going into debt or bankruptcy when they need health care
• Covering more than 30 million people who don’t have health coverage now
• Closing the “doughnut hole” so Medicare enrollees won’t fall into the Medicare drug coverage gap any more
• Cutting the federal deficit by more than $100 billion over the next ten years and by many hundreds of billions of dollars in the following decade

Vote Yes because the cost of doing nothing is much too high!

AIDS Action Council
Alliance for Children and Families
Alliance for Retired Americans
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America
American Academy of Family Physicians
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of Physician Assistants
American Association for Cancer Research
American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
American Association of Pastoral Counselors
American Association of People with Disabilities
American Association on Health and Disability
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN)
American College of Nurse Midwives
American College of Physicians
American Counseling Association
American Diabetes Association
American Federation of Government Employees
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
American Friends Service Committee
American Group Psychotherapy Association
American Heart Association
American Hospice Foundation
American Library Association
American Mental Health Counselors Association
American Music Therapy Association
American Network of Community Options and Resources
American Nurses Association
American Psychiatric Nurses Association
American Psychological Association
American Public Health Association
American Social Health Association
Americans for Democratic Action
Anxiety Disorders Association of America
Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
Asian American Justice Center
Association for Ambulatory Behavioral Healthcare
Association for Clinical Pastoral Education
Association for the Advancement of Psychology
Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations
Association of Assistive Technology Act Programs
Association of Community Affiliated Plans
Association of Hispanic Healthcare Executives
Association of University Centers on Disabilities
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
Autism Society of America
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Black Women’s Health Imperative
B’nai B’rith International
Brain Injury Association of America
Breast Cancer Network of Strength
California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS)
Catholic Health Association of the United States
Center for Adolescent Health & the Law
Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc.
Center for Rural Affairs
Center for the Study of the American Electorate
CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers
Change That Works
Child Welfare League of America
Children’s Defense Fund
Clergy Strategic Alliances, LLC
Clinical Social Work Association
Coalition on Human Needs
Colon Cancer Alliance
Common Cause
CommonHealth ACTION
Communities Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief Coalition
Community Action Partnership
Community Catalyst
Community Transportation Association of America
Consumer Action
Consumer Federation of America
Consumers’ CHECKBOOK/Center for the Study of Services
Consumers Union
Corporation for Supportive Housing
Defeat Diabetes Foundation
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
Disciples Justice Action Network
Doctors for America
Easter Seals
Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church
Eating Disorders Coalition
Epilepsy Foundation
Evangelicals for Social Action
Every Child Matters Education Fund
Faithful America
Faithful Reform in Health Care
Families USA
Family Equality Council
Family Violence Prevention Fund
Family Voices
Federation of American Hospitals
First Focus Campaign for Children
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Friends Fiduciary Corporation
Generations United
Health Care For All
Health Care for America Now
Healthcare Access Project
HealthHIV
Hispanic Dental Association
HIV Medicine Association
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW)
Japanese American Citizens League
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
League of Women Voters of the United States
Legal Momentum
LIVESTRONG
Malecare Prostate Cancer Support
Medicare Rights Center
Mental Health America
MomsRising
NAACP
National Academies of Practice
National Alliance for Caregiving
National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors
National Alliance on Mental Illness
National Association for Children’s Behavioral Health
National Association of Area Agencies on Aging
National Association of Community Health Centers
National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors
National Association of Hispanic Nurses
National Association of Human Rights Workers
National Association of Jewish Chaplains
National Association of Mental Health Planning and Advisory Councils
National Association of Neighborhoods
National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems
National Association of Social Workers
National Association of State Head Injury Administrators
National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer III, Community Networks Program
National Breast Cancer Coalition
National Center on Caregiving, Family Caregiver Alliance
National Cervical Cancer Coalition
National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
National Coalition for LGBT Health
National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs
National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations
National Coalition on Health Care Action Fund
National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare
National Congress of American Indians
National Congress of Black Women, Inc.
National Consumers League
National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
National Council of Asian & Pacific Islander Physicians
National Council of Churches, USA Health Task Force
National Council of Negro Women, Inc.
National Council of Urban Indian Health
National Council on Aging
National Disability Rights Network
National Down Syndrome Congress
National Education Association
National Family Caregivers Association
National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health
National Forum for Latino Healthcare Executives
National Foundation for Mental Health
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
National Health Equity Coalition
National Health Law Program
National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators
National Hispanic Council on Aging
National Hispanic Medical Association
National Indian Health Board
National Legal Aid and Defender Association
National Lung Cancer Partnership
National Medical Association
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
National Native American AIDS Prevention Center
National Partnership for Women & Families
National Patient Advocate Foundation
National Physicians Alliance
National Policy and Advocacy Council on Homelessness
National Public Sector HealthCare Roundtable
National Research Center for Women & Families
National Resource Center for Hispanic Mental Health
National Respite Coalition
National Senior Citizens Law Center
National Spinal Cord Injury Association
National Women’s Law Center
NCCNHR: The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care
NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
Nurse-Family Partnership National Service Office
OCA
Opinion Leaders Advocacy Network
Our Bodies Ourselves
Out of Many, One
OWL - The Voice of Midlife and Older Women
Paralyzed Veterans of America
Partnership for Prevention
PHI - Health Care for Health Care Workers
Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health
Prescription Policy Choices
Progressive States Network
Project Inform
Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Coalition
RESULTS
Ryan White Medical Providers Coalition
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
Self-Governance Communication and Education Tribal Consortium
Service Employees International Union
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Institute Justice Team
Small Business Majority
Society for Adolescent Medicine
SparkLight Communications
State Legislators for Health Care Reform
Summit Health Institute for Research and Education, Inc.
The Access Project
The AIDS Institute
The Arc of the United States
The Center for Health Care Policy Research and Analysis
The Children’s Partnership
The Healing of the Nations Foundation
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCR)
The LGBT Cancer Project - Out With Cancer
The Main Street Alliance
The Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence
Therapeutic Communities of America
Tourette Syndrome Association
U.S. PIRG (Public Interest Research Group)
U.S. Positive Women’s Network
Union for Reform Judaism
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
United Cerebral Palsy
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
United Methodist Church - General Board of Church and Society
United Neighborhood Centers of America
United Spinal Association
Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN)
Us TOO International Prostate Cancer Education & Support Network
USAction
VetsFirst
Voices for America’s Children
Volunteers of America
Wider Opportunities for Women
Witness Justice
Women of Reform Judaism
Women Together for Change

 

 

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