First Responders
Call Harry Reid – October 14, 2009
Rapid Response Team – Weekly Calls to Congress
The Senate Finance Committee bill that was passed yesterday is unacceptable. It falls short on making insurance affordable to America’s families, gives employers a free ride, taxes higher cost health insurance benefit plans and does not create meaningful competition in the insurance market with a strong national public [...]
Thank Senator Schumer – September 30, 2009
Rapid Response Team – Weekly Calls to Congress
Senate Finance Committee fails to pass a Public Option. Disappointing but not Surprising!
Senate Schumer led a valiant fight for a Public Option in the Senate Finance committee yesterday. He held strong defending the need for a public health insurance option – to assure the private health insurance would [...]
Call Senator Schumer Now! – September 16, 2009
Rapid Response Team – Weekly Calls to Congress
Today, Senate Finance Chair Max Baucus of Montana released his long-awaited plan for health care reform, and it simply doesn’t meet our standards for reform. It vastly reduces the number of people that would be subsidized for their health care, leaving all too many New Yorkers out, subsidizing [...]
Call the President Now – September 4, 2009
Rapid Response Team – Emergency Call this weekend
On Wednesday, September 9th, President Obama is scheduled to deliver a national address to a joint session of Congress on Health Care Reform. The President needs to hear from us before his speech on Wednesday.
We must let him know that we do not want him to back away [...]
Call the President Now – August 17, 2009
Rapid Response Team – Weekly Calls to Congress
This weekend President Obama’s Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sibelius, appeared on CNN’s State of the Union and said that the public option is “not the essential element” of the White House reform package. This comes after a week when the White House has changed how it [...]
Call Congress Now – August 5, 2009
Rapid Response Team – Weekly Calls to Congress
Now that Congress is in recess until after Labor Day, our Representatives need to hear from us – supporters of health care reform!
The opponents are mobilizing for the August recess – and they’re organized. It’s our job to make sure our Representatives hear from more people supporting health [...]
