North Georgia Residents Hold Vigil for People Suffering Under Current Health Care System
Event Demonstrates Dire Need for Public Health Insurance Option, Will Include a Memorial to Senator Edward Kennedy
As Congress wraps up its August recess, on Wednesday, September 2nd local residents will hold a vigil on the Pickens County Courthouse grounds, 50 N. Main Street, to honor those who are suffering under the current health care system and show that Georgia cannot afford to wait for health care reform with a real public health insurance option. The vigils are organized by members of MoveOn.org Political Action, along with the Center for Community Change, Democracy for America, Doctors for America, Health Care for American Now, and TrueMajority. Health care reform with a strong public health insurance option will help lower skyrocketing health care costs and expand coverage to millions of Americans. Nearly 300 vigils will be held nationwide on the same day. The vigils will include a memorial to Senator Edward Kennedy, who viewed fighting for universal health care as the “cause of his life.”
Vigil participants will light candles and share the names and stories of those suffering under the current health care system, to show the desperate need for a real public health insurance option. A R.E.A.L. public health insurance option must be: Ready right away, part of a plan to cover Everyone, Accountable to the public and Large enough to contain costs.
“As the names and stories shared here today show, Georgia can't afford to wait for a real public health insurance option. Everyday that we wait to pass health care reform with a public option, more Georgians are denied life-saving medical treatment, dropped from their insurance coverage, or buried under medical bills,” said David Robinson, a local MoveOn member. “We’re calling on Congress to pass the health care reform we need as soon as they return to Washington. The longer we wait, the more people suffer.”
WHAT: Vigil to support a Public Health Insurance Option
WHO: MoveOn members and other North Georgians
WHERE: Pickens County Courthouse Grounds, 50 N. Main Street, Jasper, GA
WHEN: 7:30 p.m., September 2nd, 2009
This vigil is the culmination of a five-week “Real Voices of Change” campaign, which has included over 500 local events nationwide. These events include organizing attendance at Congressional town halls and forums, as well as MoveOn organized parallel events, such as rallies and letter-to-the-editor deliveries.
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