Marching For Health Care Reform

The latest from Health Care for America NOW!

Dear Friends,

As I hope you know a group of Pennsylvanians are, right now, marching to Washington, DC for health care reform in the name of Melanie Shouse. You can find out more about our march at our website here.

And now if you can get to Philadelphia or Pittsburgh on the morning of the 24th you can take a bus to join for the last mile of the march. (Thanks to SEIU for a large contribution for the buses.)

We'll arrive in Washington on the 24th, the day before President Obama's health care summit. We expect to be joined by hundreds of people on the last leg of the march from Union Station to the Capitol. We'll march to the Dirksen Office building for an event at which we'll be joined by Senators Casey and Specter, some of our PA House members, and members of Congress from other states possibly including some from the Congressional leadership.

I know that many of you would like to join us in Washington that day. And now we can make it a little easier for you. We are running two free buses from Pennsylvania, one Philadelphia and one from Pittsburgh that will take people to Union Station.

RSVP for the Philadelphia bus here

RSVP for the Pittsburgh bus here

And, if you can't join us, there are still other ways you can help make Melanies March grow.

Why we're marching.

We're marching because we're frustrated with the slow process of reform and horrified at the possibility of not enacting legislation this year after coming so close. We're marching because too many people, like our some of our marchers, do not have access to the health care they need. We're marching because health insurance costs are becoming a greater and greater burden on middle class Americans and on businesses, large and small. And we're marching because far too many people, like Melanie Shouse, have died and continue to die for lack of health insurance.

It's time to finish the job. We hope our march will help shape the President's summit and get our members of Congress focused on the one task we demand of them: finish health care reform and finish it right.

I hope you can join us.

RSVP for the Philadelphia bus here

RSVP for the Pittsburgh bus here

Thanks for your support,

Marc Stier
PA State Director
Health Care For America NOW!
MarcStier@hcanpa.org
(215)880-6142

PS: Make sure to arrive a little early at Capitol Hill so you have time to get through security and please don't bring any large bags which are not allowed into the Senate Office building.

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