East Fishkill Democratic Committee

Everyone knows our healthcare system is broken.

But not everyone agrees on the fix. Who gets covered? Who pays how much? Who makes healthcare decisions – insurance companies or doctors? Those questions are all up in the air.

That’s why Working Families is backing the Standards for Universal Healthcare put forward the Healthcare for All New York coalition. It’s a set of goals we need to meet to make quality, affordable healthcare for everyone a reality. Lots of organizations have signed on. Now it’s your turn.
Click here to see the 10 Healthcare Standards and add your voice to the thousands who have signed in support.

Tomorrow, New Yorkers from around the State will gather in Albany for the People’s Public Hearing on Health Care for All and share their own life stories showing how healthcare needs to be fixed. Our goal is to get 1,000 people to sign before the hearings, so we can show support for a proposal to provide everyone with quality, affordable healthcare.

You’ve heard the statistics: 45 million Americans lack health insurance; 2.5 million of them right here in New York. And even those lucky enough to have coverage aren’t catching a break. Premiums are rising as fast as gas and close to half of all New Yorkers reported going without a needed prescription or putting off medical care because of cost in the last year.

Enough. Polls show healthcare is the number one issue New Yorkers want elected officials to address. The mandate for comprehensive healthcare reform is clear.

But what does that mean? There are lots of competing proposals out there – plenty of them even call themselves ‘universal healthcare’ – but that doesn’t mean that they’re the right plan for New York or for America.

The goal of these “healthcare standards” is to spell out exactly what we expect of our elected leaders: a system where everyone has access to quality, affordable care. It’s simple: if we can achieve these standards, we can achieve the healthcare reform we so badly need.

Click here to see the healthcare standards and add your voice to call for quality, affordable healthcare for all:

Here’s the link again: http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/t/3260/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=367

Sign on now, it only takes a second.

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