NATIONAL HEALTH CARE REFORM TAKES CENTER STAGE

President Barack Obama’s push for national health care reform is hitting a critical stage. And what happens on health care reform at the national level affects you here.

So we need to get calls into our members of Congress, especially Sen. Maria Cantwell and Sen. Patty Murray.

Call NOW! 888-436-8427:

• Urge them to support the Obama budget on health care reform. We need quality, affordable health care we can all count on. Now is the time for a solution.

OR Email them here:

Sen. Maria Cantwell: http://cantwell.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

Sen. Patty Murray: http://murray.senate.gov/email/index.cfm

To sign an online petition and get more resources: http://www.afscme.org/healthcare.cfm

Health Care for America Now! Visit the website for more resources.

Some 300 Federation shop stewards kicked off the campaign at their conference in SeaTac Sunday. They lined up at a bank of computers to send the “Support Health Care Reform” message to Congress.

The Obama health care plan is in line with the reform package recommended by delegates to the 2008 AFSCME Convention. That includes “a truly inclusive and accessible health care system in which no one is left out.”

Also: “A choice of a private insurance plan, including keeping the insurance you have if you like it, or a public insurance plan, without a private insurer middleman, that guarantees affordable coverage.”