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Universal Coverage Rally on Capitol Hill
DAYTON-- The crowd that assembled at a health-care rally on Capitol Hill yesterday seemed a patchwork of brightly colored union t-shirts. Organizers from Health Care for America Now, the campaign that hosted the event, estimated that thousands of people from across the country attended the rally to voice their support for universal coverage.
Terri Thomson, a member of Steelworkers Local 207L in Findlay, Ohio, came to the rally with family members and the AFL-CIO. Thomson, 50, said only one of her seven adult children have health insurance and that one of her uninsured step-children is having a troubled pregnancy -- and having trouble getting medical care. "We are going through this as we speak," Thomson said.
Dana Kindermann, 28, who graduated from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School three weeks ago, attended the rally with other colleagues from the National Physicians Alliance, who could be recognized by their white clinician coats.
Kindermann, who supports a publicly funded insurance option for patients, said she is idealistic despite the $200,000 in school loans she said she still has to repay. "Everybody pays [school loans] back somehow," she said.
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who spoke at the rally, said he had been working on a health care reform mark-up earlier in the day. "The goal is not to write a bipartisan bill. The goal is to write a good bill," Brown said. He said a good bill will be one in which all Americans have health-care coverage and private insurance agencies are regulated.
Actress Edie Falco of The Sopranos, who also spoke at the event, encouraged everyone at the rally to sign up for text messages from the organization to remind supporters to lobby their representatives.
"Assuming you can still afford [a cell phone] after you pay your healthcare premiums," she said.
COMMENT HERE
For information about Ohio health insurance, contact independant - Ohio Health Insurance Agent - Morgan Moran (800) 554-9142.
OHIO NEWS & COMMENT
Universal Coverage Rally on Capitol Hill
DAYTON-- The crowd that assembled at a health-care rally on Capitol Hill yesterday seemed a patchwork of brightly colored union t-shirts. Organizers from Health Care for America Now, the campaign that hosted the event, estimated that thousands of people from across the country attended the rally to voice their support for universal coverage.
Terri Thomson, a member of Steelworkers Local 207L in Findlay, Ohio, came to the rally with family members and the AFL-CIO. Thomson, 50, said only one of her seven adult children have health insurance and that one of her uninsured step-children is having a troubled pregnancy -- and having trouble getting medical care. "We are going through this as we speak," Thomson said.
Dana Kindermann, 28, who graduated from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School three weeks ago, attended the rally with other colleagues from the National Physicians Alliance, who could be recognized by their white clinician coats.
Kindermann, who supports a publicly funded insurance option for patients, said she is idealistic despite the $200,000 in school loans she said she still has to repay. "Everybody pays [school loans] back somehow," she said.
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who spoke at the rally, said he had been working on a health care reform mark-up earlier in the day. "The goal is not to write a bipartisan bill. The goal is to write a good bill," Brown said. He said a good bill will be one in which all Americans have health-care coverage and private insurance agencies are regulated.
Actress Edie Falco of The Sopranos, who also spoke at the event, encouraged everyone at the rally to sign up for text messages from the organization to remind supporters to lobby their representatives.
"Assuming you can still afford [a cell phone] after you pay your healthcare premiums," she said.
COMMENT HERE
For information about Ohio health insurance, contact independant - Ohio Health Insurance Agent - Morgan Moran (800) 554-9142.
