Visit our new Web project: Stand Up
for Health Care!
Stand Up for Health Care empowers ordinary Americans with the knowledge and opportunity to become leaders in the movement for health care reform. This project cuts through the dense statistics, the spin and the confusion, explaining the issues clearly and giving you the chance to put that knowledge into action. It's time we stop talking about better health care and actually make it happen. Check out www.standupforhealthcare.org.
Spread the Word: Insurance Matters
We don't need to tell you that having health insurance matters. But what you may not know is that people are dying due to lack of coverage. Our new findings reveal how many in each state are
Dying for Coverage.
Help raise awareness in your community: Send a letter to your editor
The President's Budget for 2009
Question: Why does this election matter? Answer: See the President's latest budget proposal. Click here to learn more.
The Fight for Children's Health Care Continues
We're not giving up the fight for children’s health care. We may have lost the veto override, but we will continue to pressure Congress and the President to support an expansion of the state Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
Want to do something about it?
Watch our video, then see how your Representative voted.
Send an email message or call Congress at 1-800-828-0498.
You can also...
Find the name of your Representative.
Learn how many children in your state could gain coverage under the compromise bill. State numbers are based on a recent Families USA report, Kids Waiting for Coverage: How Many Are in Your State?, that compares the House and Senate CHIP reauthorization bills.
Medical Research Is a Top National Priority
Take Action: Congress is now deciding the fate of medical research by determining how much funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will receive in the upcoming year. Funding for both is in jeopardy, threatening medical progress here and abroad.
To ensure that NIH will not have to make additional cutbacks in medical research, for 2009, NIH needs a 6.7 percent increase above the 2008 funding level. On top of this overall budget increase, the NIH institutes focused on global health research--the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Fogarty International Center--need an additional $83.1 million and $2.4 million, respectively.
The CDC's global health programs need a $35.5 million funding increase in 2009.
Please call the U.S. Congress switchboard at 1-800-828-0498, and ask to be connected to your Senators. Tell them that NIH needs an overall 6.7 percent increase in 2009, with a greater increase for global health research, and the CDC's global health programs need a $35.5 million increase.
Learn More: Click here to learn more about the President's Budget.
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