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North Carolina needs Medicaid expansion to improve health equity!

Access to health care coverage is a lifesaver for families and our economy. We are working to ensure every family has access to quality affordable health care coverage because no one should have to choose between paying for groceries or housing and paying their medical bills. Whether you’ve struggled to pay for your insulin or have been impacted from COVID-19, everyone should have access to quality and affordable healthcare.

People are often surprised to hear that even a physician can end up on Medicaid...but I’m a great example that it can happen to anyone. I’m 32 years old, married, with two small children and I am a family physician. In January of this year, right at the beginning of a new plan year and new...Read more
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Quick signature in support of nondiscrimination in health care!

09/28/22
Discrimination should never happen—and definitely not in health care. Now, we have a chance to combat discrimination. How? The Biden-Harris administration is currently accepting public comments on a proposed rule to reinstate the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) important nondiscrimination requirements...
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Do our elected leaders know how it feels to choose between food and medicine? I do.

08/30/22
"I’ll never forget stumbling into my pharmacy one day, my blood pressure soaring. I could barely see. I asked the pharmacist: Could you just give me a couple pills? Just five or six, until my next paycheck comes in? I'm scared."
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Kerri Karvetski
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Brand New Breaking Through Episode: Coming Together: Unity 22, Inflation Reduction Act, Ending Hate, and the United State of Women

08/24/22
On the radio show this week, we cover democracy on the line, Unity 22, and the campaign to increase Black voter turnout ahead of the midterm elections; we hear about the just-passed Inflation Reduction Act and how it can lower your prescription drug and healthcare costs; we find out how to combat...
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Make Sure Your Child Has All The Essentials For A Productive School Year!

08/09/22
Studies have shown that academic performance and health insurance go hand in hand. Children who have health coverage miss fewer classes and perform better in school than those who are uninsured. But health coverage doesn’t just benefit students. Fewer missed days of school also mean fewer missed...
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Tasmiha Khan
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Tell your Senator to vote YES on the Inflation Reduction Act!
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QUICK SIGN! Tell Congress to Vote YES on the Inflation Reduction Act!

08/04/22
Finally, some great news! The U.S. Senate has come to an agreement on a bill that will rein in Big Pharma’s price gouging, help millions of people keep their health insurance, tax mega-corporations, and lower carbon emissions. Quick signature: Tell your U.S. Senators to support the Inflation...
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Felicia Burnett
Health Care

Happy 25 to CHIP!

08/04/22
We are so ecstatic to celebrate the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)’s 25th anniversary! CHIP is a federal/state partnership program that helps insure kids in all fifty states. Making sure our children have health insurance ensures that we always give our kids a winning hand of lifelong...
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Tasmiha Khan

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Quick signature for postpartum health care coverage!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/23205/?source=action">Quick signature for postpartum health care coverage!</a>

We need Congress to act!

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Quick signature: Tell Congress to make 12 months postpartum Medicaid coverage permanent!

TELL YOUR U.S. SENATORS: In the face of Omicron, families need the CTC, Paid Leave, Home Care and Child Care!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/21914/?source=action">TELL YOUR U.S. SENATORS: In the face of Omicron, families need the CTC, Paid Leave, Home Care and Child Care!</a>

Just as families need support the most, monthly Child Tax Credit payments ended in December because Joe Manchin and the Republican Senators refused to pass Build Back Better. With Omicron raging, it's more important than ever to pass BBB to make child care and elder care affordable, guarantee paid family and medical leave, lower the cost of insulin and other prescription drugs, make healthcare more affordable, and more.

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Omicron is Raging, Families Need Support - Tell the U.S. Senate Families Need them to ACT

How would universal free school meals help your family?

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/18455/?source=action">How would universal free school meals help your family?</a>

The stories from families like you who have been impacted by universal school meals can move lawmakers and change policies.

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How would universal free school meals help your family?

Quick signature: Tell Congress to invest in Home- and Community-Based Services!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/23893/?source=action">Quick signature: Tell Congress to invest in Home- and Community-Based Services!</a>

People with disabilities should be able to live at home.

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Quick signature: Tell Congress to invest in Home- and Community-Based Services!

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