What kid has 1.4 million dollars?
Posted July 15th, 2009 by Donna NortonLast week, the Washington Post reported that the healthcare industry is spending a record $1.4 million dollars a day (Yes, a day!) to protect their interests in health reform.[1] Whose interests aren’t being protected? Our kids!
While health reform holds great promise in providing more children and adults with affordable and comprehensive health coverage, some legislative proposals now under consideration could result in some children ending up with fewer benefits than they currently have. We need all your voices to stand up for kids!
Tell Congress that health reform must advance, not set back, children’s health coverage!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1768/t/1878/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27289
What’s happening? Congress is thinking about ending the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and moving those 7 million children into a new health insurance exchange [2] created by health reform. We must ensure that this change does not mean that children will have fewer benefits, limits on their benefits in terms of amount, scope, and duration, and higher cost sharing than they currently have.
Don’t forget to send a letter to Congress now!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1768/t/1878/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27289
We may not have 1.4 million dollars in extra cash to spend every day, but we have the passions, voices, and networks of over a million dedicated MomsRising members. Please forward this message to your friends and families so we can make sure that our kids aren’t shut out of the benefits of health reform.
Thanks for your work on behalf of our nation’s families.
–Donna, Ashley, Julia, Anita, Dionna, Kristin, and the MomsRising team
P.S. Thanks to our friends at First Focus and National Council of La Raza for their help with this message. For more information on this issue see, http://www.firstfocus.net/pages/3606
[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/05/AR2009070502770.html
[2] Current drafts of health reform legislation call for the creation of a health insurance “exchange,” a new entity intended to create a more organized and competitive market for health insurance by offering a choice of plans, establishing common rules regarding the offering and pricing of insurance, and providing information to help consumers better understand the options available to them. For more information on health insurance exchanges, see: http://www.kff.org/healthreform/7908.cfm
3 Comments
July 19, 2009 at 11:54 pm by dfdsfThis is total nonsense. Moms can do anything and if means putting food on the table for their children, they can work and nurture and create wonderful, caring, involved children…adults. Lelt’s get our heads out of the toilets men!
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July 18, 2009 at 2:38 am by Chris JohnsonEven if the healthcare industry spent that much a day (approximately $500 million/year), the amount of waste that the government has spent on pork and stimulus spending these past 6 months could have meet the healthcare needs of every child in the US.
Sad to say I trust the managed care plans with my premiums more than I trust the government. The president’s promise to cut $500 billion out of Medicare means that seniors will be denied services in a manner that makes managed care companies look compassionate. And it will all be based on the gnostics of government who think they know better than us.
Wake up Donna and stand up for women with families! We don’t want government messing with our privacy and reproductive rights, why do we want them making decisions about our healthcare?
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July 16, 2009 at 12:16 am by Stacey DorenfeldThis is total nonsense. Moms can do anything and if means putting food on the table for their children, they can work and nurture and create wonderful, caring, involved children…adults. Lelt’s get our heads out of the toilets men!
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