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| Read: Health Care for All: - KMOV (Channel 4 - CBS - St Louis) blog about an interview with Pro-Vote's Executive Director, Julie Burkhart and the urgent need for health care for all now! (May, 2009) |
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Thank you to the hundreds of us who called Congress to urge legislators to keep President Obama's historic investment in health care in the 2010 budget. Your calls make a difference!
We will need to contact Congress again soon - we will keep you advised!
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Read the new Health Care for America Now Report "Next Step: Health care - To Fix Missouri's Economy, We Need To Fix Health Care Now!" (February 2009)
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US Senator Claire McCaskill |
We are proud that U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill has signed onto the principles of Health Care for American Now for quality, affordable healthcare for all. Senator McCaskill joins over 150 other legislators and President-Elect Barack Obama in signing this statement of principles.Click here to read the principles!
You can join with us, our U.S. Senator Clarie McCaskill, and President-Elect Obama by signing the pledge, too! Click here for a pledge you can download, print, and mailback to Pro-Vote to get involved. Please download the flyer, distribute it widely, and encourage everyone to sign on and send it back in!
Click here to visit the National Health Care for America Now page and you can sign up online.
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Missouri Pro-Vote is committed to quality affordable health care for every Missourian. Will will engage citizens with their legislators, produce and complile facts, statistics, and stories, organize in coalition with other progressive organizations, and hold policy makers accountable for their votes!
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Backgroud Information on the fight for quality, affordable health care for all!
At the state level, Pro-Vote has spoken out against the 2005 Blunt Medicaid cuts, which resulted in the immediate loss of coverage for 100,000 Missourians. We have educated citizens as well as candidates for office about the importance of this issue. Pro-Vote has also led the fight for insurance reform, to keep the industry from denying coverage to people who need it.
Unfortunately, the fundamental problems with the way we get health coverage in this country are so great that we need a national solution. That is why Pro-Vote has joined with the national campaign, Health Care for America Now! (HCAN) to engage members of Congress around this issue.
In 2008 HCAN worked to build a real movement for national health care reform. In 2009 HCAN and local partners like Pro-Vote will work with our new President to make the goal of quality affordable healthcare for all!
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Reports on the Health Care Crisis
Pro-Vote writes and publishes reports about Health Care with stories, facts, and statistics. This wealth of information leads us to believe one thing: We need guaranteed, quality affordable Health Care for America Now!
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| "Next Step: Health care - To Fix Missouri's Economy, We Need To Fix Health Care Now!" by Health Care for America Now! (February 2009) |
| "Under McCain Health Plan 406,150 People in Missouri Would Loose Employer-Sponsored Health Care Coverage" by the Economic Policy Insitute. (October 2008) |
| "Failing Grades Socrecard and Failing Grades Report" by Families USA. (June 2008) |
| "House of Hypocrites - Round Two" by Pro-Vote. (May 2008) |
| "Insure Missouri: Too Little, Too Late" by Families USA (January 2008) |
| "The Erosion of Employment-Based Insurance: More Working Families Left Unisured" by the Economic Policy Insitute. (November 2007) |
| Click here to see how many children from whom Governor Blunt has taken away health care from since June 2005 compared to October 2007. |
| "Too Great a Burden: Missouri's Families at Risk" by Families USA (November 2007) |
| "The Erosion of Employment-Based Insurance: More Working Families Left Uninsured" by the Economic Policy Insitute (November 2007) |
| "Kids Waiting for Coverage: How Many are in Your State?" by Families USA. (September 2007) |
| "The State of Working Missouri 2007: Health Insecurity on the Rise" by the Missouri Citizen Education Fund. (August 2007) |
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At a vigil in Kansas City on October 16, 2007, Pro-Vote called on Rep Sam Graves to approve children's healthcare through the SCHIP program. Rep Graves voted against providing children wih healthcare through SCHIP.
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