Health Care for America Now Thanks Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) for His Support
Washington, DC – Health Care for America Now (HCAN) – the unprecedented coalition of large labor groups, community-based organizations, women’s groups, doctors, nurses, small businesses, think tanks, and leading netroots activists – is pleased to announce the addition of Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) to its list of Congressional supporters.
Rep. Conyers has been a strong advocate for health care reform for more than twenty years, and HCAN looks forward to working with him to help win a guarantee of quality, affordable health care we all can count on in 2009.
“I am proud to join HCAN’s broad progressive campaign to raise awareness about the need for true universal health care reform. The HCAN coalition and I are united by our belief that the current non-system of health care run by profit hungry insurance companies is unsustainable and inhumane,” said Representative Conyers. “It will take a monumental effort to defeat the entrenched special interests that benefit from the status quo. I remain firmly committed to the passage of my single-payer universal health care bill, H.R. 676, and believe that private insurance will never provide the kind of guaranteed affordable health care America needs. However, I agree with HCAN that a true policy debate in the Congress can only begin when there is broad consensus that the sham reform trumpeted by the industry is off the table.”
HCAN is currently asking each Member of Congress, “Which Side Are You On? – the side of quality, affordable health care for all or the side of leaving us alone to fend for ourselves in the bureaucratic, unregulated insurance market? HCAN’s Statement of Common Purpose includes 10 principles the campaign believes will lay the foundation for effective, comprehensive health care reform.
Health Care for America Now’s steering committee includes ACORN, AFSCME, Americans United for Change, Campaign for America’s Future, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Center for Community Change, MoveOn.org, National Education Association, National Council of La Raza, National Women’s Law Center, Planned Parenthood, SEIU, UFCW, and USAction.
Rep. Conyers has been a strong advocate for health care reform for more than twenty years, and HCAN looks forward to working with him to help win a guarantee of quality, affordable health care we all can count on in 2009.
“I am proud to join HCAN’s broad progressive campaign to raise awareness about the need for true universal health care reform. The HCAN coalition and I are united by our belief that the current non-system of health care run by profit hungry insurance companies is unsustainable and inhumane,” said Representative Conyers. “It will take a monumental effort to defeat the entrenched special interests that benefit from the status quo. I remain firmly committed to the passage of my single-payer universal health care bill, H.R. 676, and believe that private insurance will never provide the kind of guaranteed affordable health care America needs. However, I agree with HCAN that a true policy debate in the Congress can only begin when there is broad consensus that the sham reform trumpeted by the industry is off the table.”
HCAN is currently asking each Member of Congress, “Which Side Are You On? – the side of quality, affordable health care for all or the side of leaving us alone to fend for ourselves in the bureaucratic, unregulated insurance market? HCAN’s Statement of Common Purpose includes 10 principles the campaign believes will lay the foundation for effective, comprehensive health care reform.
Health Care for America Now’s steering committee includes ACORN, AFSCME, Americans United for Change, Campaign for America’s Future, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Center for Community Change, MoveOn.org, National Education Association, National Council of La Raza, National Women’s Law Center, Planned Parenthood, SEIU, UFCW, and USAction.
