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About this Petition Petition Letter Petition Updates

The Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care, along with Healthcare-NOW!, is preparing for the third Congressional briefing in Washington, DC titled “National Lessons for Health Reform: An Examination of US Health Insurance.”

Thanks to the phone calls, faxes, and emails, the last briefing on Feb. 25 had an unprecedented number of healthcare staffers in the room. The turn out was phenomenal.

We need your help again to get calls into your Representatives and urge them to attend the next event.

Encourage your Members of Congress and their staff to attend the forum on “National Lessons for Health Reform: An Examination of US Health Insurance," April 1st, 2-4pm in 2226 Rayburn House Office Building.

Please circulate this request to your local coalition and organizations.

Here is a link to the invitation.

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Please Attend: National Lessons for Health Reform

Dear Representative

I encourage you and your staff to attend an important Congressional forum organized by the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care. The forum, <b>&ldquo;National Lessons for Health Reform: An Examination of US Health Insurance,&rdquo; will be held on April 1, 2009, 2pm &ndash; 4pm, 2226 Rayburn House Office Building.</b> Congressman Eric Massa [NY-29] will chair the forum.

The US has relied on private insurance for sixty years -- what lessons can we take from this experience? What are the implications of the growing phenomenon of underinsurance? As President Obama says, we must keep what works and end what does not.&nbsp; The April 1 forum will examine insurance mechanisms that will be increasingly debated as national models for health reform.

Witnesses will include: -Louis Balizet, MD, Oncologist -Marilyn Cawthon, ICU RN, Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals -Leonard Rodberg, PhD, Professor and Chair of Urban Studies Queens College&nbsp; -Annette Ramirez de Arellano, DrPH, Health Research Group, Public Citizen&nbsp; -Cindy Young, Senior Health Policy Advisor California School Employees Association&nbsp; -David L Rabin MD, MPH, Professor of Community Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center

All Members of Congress are invited to participate in the forum by listening to witness testimony and asking questions of the panel.

This briefing is intended for Members and staff but is open to the public. Community support is highly encouraged, so please join us!&nbsp; Light refreshments will be served. For headcount purposes, please RSVP to Jessica Yarbrough, jyarbrough@calnurses.org, (202) 974-8300.

The Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care is a coalition of doctors, nurses and other health care providers; labor unions; nonprofit agencies; reform advocates and faith-based organizations working to achieve guaranteed comprehensive, high quality, and affordable health care coverage for everyone. The coalition specifically advocates for a publicly funded and privately delivered national health care system structured around a single-payer financing mechanism.

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