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$40 Million Health Care Campaign to Launch in OHIO and Nationwide
Ohio Community Leaders Join Together to Push for Quality, Affordable Health Care for Every American
Statehouse, Columbus, Ohio- July 8, 2008 - Standing in a room where State Senators debate Ohio law, Coya Mobley of Dayton and Rev. Gregory Chandler of Cincinnati launched a major $40 million campaign to push for quality, affordable healthcare for every American Today.
Mobley and Chandler were hosted by Senate Minority Leader Ray Miller in the Statehouse's Minority Conference Room as she and 37 other state capitals and 52 cities began a new national campaign to bring together millions of Americans to make progress on healthcare access for all Americans.
Health Care for America Now (HCAN) is being launched by 95 national and local groups that represent labor, community organizations, doctors, nurses, women, small businesses, faith-based organizations, people of color, netroots activists, and think tanks. The goal is to create an environment where the first order of business of the next President and Congress is to pass legislation in 2009 that guarantees quality, affordable health care for all.
Health Care for America Now is an unprecedented coalition led by ACORN, AFSCME, Americans United for Change, Campaign for America's Future, Center for American Progress Action Fund, MoveOn, National Education Association, National Women's Law Center, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, SEIU, United Food and Commercial Workers, USAction through its Ohio Partner ProgressOhio and the Center for Community Change through its Ohio partner, the Ohio Organizing Collaborative (Ohio Gamaliel, Ohio ACORN, Ohio Baptist Convention and ESOP).
"In 2009, we will either have a guarantee of quality, affordable health care we all can count on or we will continue to be at the mercy of the private health insurance industry that is charging us more, giving us less and putting company profits before our health," said Coya Mobley of ACORN. "Back in Dayton and in communities all across the country, we're asking one question, 'Which side are you on?' Are you on the side of quality, affordable health care? Or are you on the side of being left alone to fend for yourself in a complicated, bureaucratic insurance market?"
