Birth, Age, Sickeness & Death

Life's cycles can be divided into four stages, namely: birth, age, sickness and death. While I could write about some profound philosophical tenet of life, at this moment, I, us, we need to be practical and address one of the inescapable common denominators intertwined in these four stages, and that is health care insurance. How mundane is that! We use health care insurance as a means to ensure a healthy birth, to maintain a healthy growth cycle, to cure and address our ailments, and it is there at the final moment. While mundane, when compared to the complexities of life, there is no denying that health care insurance is inescapable throughout our life span.

All that to say it is time for you, me, us to take our quest for quality health care reform to the Governor's ears. Here's an update of what is happening and what you can do.

Yesterday, many organizations, including AFSCME and CCNE, sent email blasts out to their members urging them to sign the petition urging Governor Rell to sign the SustiNet health care bill into law. You can too. Click here to sign the petition.

The Connecticut Catholic Conference and the American Cancer Society sent email blasts out calling for the Governor to sign SustiNet. In addition, many people are participating in a post card writing campaign to the Governor and have been dropping signed post cards off at the Healthcare4every1.org office since yesterday. There are postcards available. Contact Healthcare4every1.org to participate.

With the end of the regular legislative session, the media is looking at SustiNet as one of the major legislative accomplishments. Chronic disease advocate Jennifer Jaffe gave SustiNet a glowing endorsement on WNPR yesterday (listen to the 3 minute clip.) Jennifer talks about how the health care crisis has worsened, how central the patient voice is in SustiNet, and how important SustiNet is as a model for the Obama administration to follow.

On Thursday morning at 9:00 am, Juan Figueora, Stan Dorn, Chris Murphy, and CBIA's Eric George will be featured on WNPR's Where We Live "Reforming Health Care" show. Should be quite the hour. Be sure to tune in.

Help generate letters to editor supporting SustiNet and calling for the Governor to sign. Click here for information on how to submit letters.

Let's unite and win together right now.

Thank you for all that you do.

Val McCall
State Chair, OFC


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