Laura
12-07-2009, 08:28 AM
From: Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign <metrohealth@igc.org>
To: metrohealth@igc.org
Subject: ACTION ALERT: Join a "Cost of Delay" Vigils happening across NYC this Tues. eve, Dec. 8th
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:30:54 -0500
Dear Friends and Supporters,
This month, the Senate is currently holding a historic debate on health care reform legislation. There's only one problem: opponents of reform --the "vested special interests" on the outside and their shills inside the Senate-- are pulling every trick in the book to stall the debate and keep health reform legislation from moving forward -- we can't let that happen!
It is vital that the Senate move forward on its debate and bring it to a conclusion with a vote before their Christmas-New Years's holiday recess -- otherwise momentum for reform seriously dissipates. With all the other important national issues that Congress has on its agenda for 2010 (climate change, immigration reform, financial services reform, jobs creation and economic recovery, to name but a few), we can't let health care get bogged down in those vortexes ...especially since we've come so far in 2009 and are almost to the finish line.
If the Senate acts before the end of this month, then the conference committee process can begin in earnest immediately after the first of the year to hammer out a compromise bill between the House and Senate, and final votes can be held by mid-late January and President Obama can sign a bill.
What is to be done -- and what YOU can can do:
This coming Tuesday evening, Dec. 8th, MoveOn, in partnership with Health Care for America Now and other allies, is holding hundreds of "Cost of Delay" vigils in communities all across America -- it's their largest undertaking ever on any issue. The focus is on what it means for everyday Americans if the imperative to get health care reform done stalls out: more suffering, more illness, more preventable deaths, more personal bankruptcies, more wasted money, more state and federal budgets in crisis, more injustice overall, continued shame for us as a nation.
Here's where our "Cost of Delay" vigils are happening across NYC -- there's one in every borough, so no excuses!
* 5:30 p.m. outside the Bronx County Courthouse, 851 Grand Concourse (at 161st St.)
* 5 p.m. outside 280 Cadman Plaza West (at Clinton St.) in downtown Brooklyn
* 6 p.m. in Times Sq. (at Bway & 46th St.)
* 6 p.m. outside 8801 Queens Blvd. (at 56th Ave. in Elmhurst)
* 6 p.m. outside Staten Island Borough Hall (Richmond Terrace)
We strongly urge you to attend one of these vigils, to be part of creating a mass public statement across our nation that Americans desperately want and need health care reform. As a nation, we cannot take any more of the status quo (which is what the special interests want to preserve ...if not expand.) We're at a turning point as a nation, and we must turn away from the politics of "me" and instead toward one of "we" -- success on health care reform will fundamentally help change America. A century of struggle for health care for all in America is long enough!
We've reached a critical juncture in the fight as the final stages approach -- now is the time for you and all supporters of health care for all in America to show up and stand up with millions nationwide at one of these "Cost of Delay" vigils this coming Tuesday evening.
We look forward to seeing you at one of the above vigils ...and thanks again, as always, for all you do for health care justice here in New York and America.
Mark Hannay
Director
To: metrohealth@igc.org
Subject: ACTION ALERT: Join a "Cost of Delay" Vigils happening across NYC this Tues. eve, Dec. 8th
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:30:54 -0500
Dear Friends and Supporters,
This month, the Senate is currently holding a historic debate on health care reform legislation. There's only one problem: opponents of reform --the "vested special interests" on the outside and their shills inside the Senate-- are pulling every trick in the book to stall the debate and keep health reform legislation from moving forward -- we can't let that happen!
It is vital that the Senate move forward on its debate and bring it to a conclusion with a vote before their Christmas-New Years's holiday recess -- otherwise momentum for reform seriously dissipates. With all the other important national issues that Congress has on its agenda for 2010 (climate change, immigration reform, financial services reform, jobs creation and economic recovery, to name but a few), we can't let health care get bogged down in those vortexes ...especially since we've come so far in 2009 and are almost to the finish line.
If the Senate acts before the end of this month, then the conference committee process can begin in earnest immediately after the first of the year to hammer out a compromise bill between the House and Senate, and final votes can be held by mid-late January and President Obama can sign a bill.
What is to be done -- and what YOU can can do:
This coming Tuesday evening, Dec. 8th, MoveOn, in partnership with Health Care for America Now and other allies, is holding hundreds of "Cost of Delay" vigils in communities all across America -- it's their largest undertaking ever on any issue. The focus is on what it means for everyday Americans if the imperative to get health care reform done stalls out: more suffering, more illness, more preventable deaths, more personal bankruptcies, more wasted money, more state and federal budgets in crisis, more injustice overall, continued shame for us as a nation.
Here's where our "Cost of Delay" vigils are happening across NYC -- there's one in every borough, so no excuses!
* 5:30 p.m. outside the Bronx County Courthouse, 851 Grand Concourse (at 161st St.)
* 5 p.m. outside 280 Cadman Plaza West (at Clinton St.) in downtown Brooklyn
* 6 p.m. in Times Sq. (at Bway & 46th St.)
* 6 p.m. outside 8801 Queens Blvd. (at 56th Ave. in Elmhurst)
* 6 p.m. outside Staten Island Borough Hall (Richmond Terrace)
We strongly urge you to attend one of these vigils, to be part of creating a mass public statement across our nation that Americans desperately want and need health care reform. As a nation, we cannot take any more of the status quo (which is what the special interests want to preserve ...if not expand.) We're at a turning point as a nation, and we must turn away from the politics of "me" and instead toward one of "we" -- success on health care reform will fundamentally help change America. A century of struggle for health care for all in America is long enough!
We've reached a critical juncture in the fight as the final stages approach -- now is the time for you and all supporters of health care for all in America to show up and stand up with millions nationwide at one of these "Cost of Delay" vigils this coming Tuesday evening.
We look forward to seeing you at one of the above vigils ...and thanks again, as always, for all you do for health care justice here in New York and America.
Mark Hannay
Director