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Dear CWA Local 7019,
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More than
18,000
working men
and women
have made
their voices
heard on
health care.
Help us
reach our
goal of
20,000
health care
survey
takers.
Take the
2008 Health
Care for
America
Survey
today, and
be sure to
pass it
along to
your
friends.
Click here. |
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The response to the 2008
AFL-CIO/Working America Health Care
for America Survey
has been overwhelming. Since the
survey was launched, more than
18,000 working men and women
have responded.
Our goal is to have at least 20,000
working men and women make their
voices heard on health care.
Click here to take the 2008 Health
Care for America Survey.
And please tell your friends, family members and anyone
else you know to take part in the
2008 Health Care for America Survey
today.
We’ve received thousands of
heart-wrenching health care
stories—tragic ones like this from
Marie in Wisconsin:
What would you do if you had to
choose between food or
medicine? Because of rising health
care costs, that is a question that
is frequently asked in my home. I
work full time and have health care
through my employer, but only a
percentage is paid by them....I
recently needed medication for an
ailment, but did not get the
medicine. I couldn’t. What would I
choose? I choose my children and
what they need, whether it be food
or medicine. I am the one who will
go without before they suffer.
Or this story from Randy in
California, whose lack of health
insurance led to bankruptcy:
I was turned away from an emergency
room in San Francisco after the ER
doc told me to go home and drink
Pepto-Bismol for my increasingly
painful abdominal cramps. I did not
have insurance. I passed out on the
street six hours later, and an
ambulance took me to a different ER
where they did emergency surgery and
removed a gangrenous appendix. I was
charged $38,000 for the surgery, a
week in the hospital and ambulance
service. I have declared bankruptcy.
The 2008 Health Care for America
Survey gives you the chance to make
your voice heard and ensures that
leaders and candidates at every
level understand what working
families are experiencing.
Click here to take the 2008 Health
Care for America Survey.
All individual survey responses are
kept completely confidential.
Be sure to share your health care
story and send the survey to friends
and family.
The compiled survey results will be
given to the presidential
candidates, every U.S. senator and
representative, every candidate for
Congress and state and local
officials in every state in our
country.
Take the survey and tell your story.
In addition, read health care
stories from other working people
and get the “hot facts” on health
care.
In this great country, no one should
go without health care. The 2008
elections will give us the chance to
show that Americans are ready for
real change.
Working families can be a big force
behind winning secure, high-quality
health care for all by 2009 if we
make the 2008 elections a mandate
for health care reform.
Take the 2008 Health Care for
America Survey today:
http://www.aflcio.org/issues/healthcare/survey/
In solidarity,
Working Families e-Activist Network,
AFL-CIO
P.S. We want to hear from as many
voices as we can, as we fight for
secure, high-quality health care.
Get your friends, family and anyone
else you know to take part in the
2008 Health Care for America Survey
today. |