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Health Care for Massachusetts Campaign We Need You!
Help Make Health Care a Right for All
We are asking
you to support the Constitutional Amendment Campaign to make comprehensive
and affordable health insurance a permanent
right for all. We are seeking endorsements from individuals and
organizations to build support for:
- upcoming legislative hearings,
- the Constitutional Convention votes 2005: and
- the statewide ballot vote in 2006.
Join the 10,000 Nurse Campaign
The MNA has launched
a campaign to mobilize 10,000 nurses to sign onto this important
campaign, click here to
learn more.
You can also visit the campaign
website by following this link: http://www.healthcareformass.org.
This
campaign will create a powerful tool in our collective work for
affordable access to health insurance - a clear and direct
mandate from the voters that they want the Legislature to make
sure everyone in Massachusetts can get the affordable coverage
that means real access to quality care.
Unlike laws enacted by
the people, the Legislature can't repeal or ignore a constitutional
amendment - only the people can repeal
it. Language in our state constitution guaranteeing every child
an education ultimately forced massive education reform - an amendment
guaranteeing every resident affordable health insurance will do
the same.
The amendment will not only be a political,
legal and moral engine for change. It will "lock in" affordable,
comprehensive coverage - preventing the deep cuts to vital coverage,
health services
and public health programs that we are seeing today.
In November
2006, the voters will create a clear and inescapable legal
obligation to fulfill the mandate for "comprehensive,
affordable, and equitably financed health insurance coverage..."
We
hope you will take 3 minutes to endorse the campaign now if you
have not already done so. Also, please help spread the word
by forwarding this email to others who would be interested in
this exciting campaign for health insurance reform.
Thank you again
for being a part of this historic campaign.
Sincerely,
Barbara Roop, JD, PhD :: Co-Chair
John Goodson, MD :: Co-Chair
Ann Eldridge Malone, RN, MSN :: Campaign Outreach Coordinator
Robert Gaw,
Sandy Eaton, RN
Michael B. Carr, JD :: Campaign Manager
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