by Communications Team | Sep 2, 2009 | Health Care
The following powerpoint and excel documents were produced by Public Policy and Education Fund of NY, Fiscal Policy Institute and New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness for teach-ins held throughout New York State in Fall of 2009. We can organize for appearances at other...
by Communications Team | Aug 28, 2009 | Health Care, Western New York
My 10 year old daughter Sage has been very patient. It is tough for a girl to see her mother obsessed with a cause. The amount of attention paid to her is sometimes usurped by the urgency of the fight for health care. So, when she decided on her own to write a blog...
by Communications Team | Aug 27, 2009 | Health Care, Western New York
Tonight’s health care teach-in in Buffalo will be live streamed right here tonight. Here is the event info. There will be speakers from the community, as well as two slide show presentations: the first about the current health care legislation moving through...
by Communications Team | Aug 26, 2009 | Health Care, New York City
On the evening of Thursday, August 20th, over 70 interested community members gathered at the Ryan-Chelsea Community Health Center to discuss and learn about the current health care reform proposals in Congress at a teach-in sponsored by Health Care for America Now...
by Communications Team | Aug 24, 2009 | Health Care
In this week’s New Yorker, James Suroweicki discussed the recent American transition from overwhelmingly supporting health care reform to almost half of the voting population being opposed to the President’s efforts in this area. He says this shifting...
by Communications Team | Aug 18, 2009 | Capital District, Health Care, Hudson Valley, New York City, Rochester, Southern Tier, Western New York
Yes, we had a disappointing weekend. It appeared that the Administration we worked so hard to elect was backing away from our strongest mandate – true health care reform through a strong public option. But every cloud has a silver lining! My group in Buffalo,...
by Communications Team | Aug 17, 2009 | Health Care
Over the weekend the Obama Administration began to waiver on its support of a public option as part of a health care reform package. We need to call the White House today and tell the President that “we are outraged and disappointed with his administration for...
by Communications Team | Aug 10, 2009 | Capital District, Health Care
When our members of Congress came home for recess this August they brought with them the debate over health care reform. Currently the news coverage of the health care debate is focused on the disruption not discourse crowd that has been attempting to shut down and...
by Communications Team | Aug 7, 2009 | Health Care
Here’s the truth: the American people overwhelmingly support a public health care option as part of any health care reform that happens. How do we know? Our friends at Health Care for America Now have taken a look at all the major polls that have asked....
