When it comes to health insurance reform, misinformation and confusion abound. So here is a quick selection of great resources to clarify matters. Be sure to share the ones you like with friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors. (I am providing the full links for your convenience in sharing.)
Short article from AARP that refutes the most [...]
Making calls, letter writing/e-mailing, and tabling–we’re taking action right here in Sunnyvale! Please join us.
1. Call Obama volunteers to get their declarations of support and ask them join in an activity. Sun., Aug. 30, 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. H. Butler’s BBQ in Sunnyvale. Go to the event detail page for more information and [...]
The president’s three principles are as follows:
Reduce costs — Rising health care costs are crushing the budgets of governments, businesses, individuals, and families, and they must be brought under control
Guarantee choice — Every American must have the freedom to choose their plan and doctor – including the choice of a public insurance option
Ensure quality care [...]
If you can help out in one of the following ways, or to ask questions, please drop me a line at wade@SunnyvaleForObama.com.
1. Data entry: we’re collecting a lot of declarations of support, new volunteers, and people who want to be on our e-mail list. Can your happy fingers help these people make their voices heard? This [...]
You can make a difference in five minutes or less at Organizing for America’s (OFA’s) Health Care Action Center! Click through to declare your support for the president’s three principles for health insurance reform, call congress, write a letter to the editor, e-mail your friends, and more!
Published in the San Jose Mercury News and the Palo Alto Daily News (see below) on July 25, 2009. Way to go, Luke!
These are stories collected by Sunnyvale for Obama volunteers about the health insurance crisis in America.
June 27, 2009, collected at Sunnyvale Famers’ Market
1. “I have two sisters with Type I diabetes. It is genetic.
“The older sister developed complications and lost her job and her medical insurance. She was reduced to poverty and became a [...]
Did you see President Obama’s big announcement on May 11? As Mitch Stewart of Organizing for America (OFA) later e-mailed(1): “President Obama announced the three bedrock principles that any comprehensive health care reform must achieve: (1) reduce costs, (2) guarantee choice, and (3) ensure all Americans have quality, affordable health care. And he set a [...]
What can we do to reduce global warming? For Earth Day (April 22), the City of Sunnyvale organized a panel of Silicon Valley green business leaders who shared their thoughts on this. 11 non- and for-profit organizations, all with environmental themes, also attended to share information about their activities.
I asked the panel what a group [...]
