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2009 Annual Meeting

Thanks to everyone who helped make our Twentieth Anniversary Annual Meeting a success!

 

Particular thanks to Midge Hough for her courage and dedication.

 

Special thanks also to to those who participated in our National Health Care Panel:


• Cindy Richards (Moderator)
• Rachel DeGolia, Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN)
• Nick Unger, AFL-CIO
• Deacon Sal Alvarez, League of of Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
• Cindy Pearson, National Women’s Health Network
• Dr. Jonathan Arend, National Physicians Alliance

 

Thanks to story sharer Tim Fraas, our volunteer of the year Rev. Elissa Leone, Governor Pat Quinn and Comptroller Dan Hynes, and the CBHC Board of Directors for all their work.

 

 

Our new Letter to the Editor Builder helps you create your own message to your local paper. Includes contact information for papers across the state. Click here to try!

 

If the health care crisis has affected you or someone you know, please contact us! Call our Helpline toll-free at 1-888-544-8271 or click here for more information!

 

Invest in the Health Care Justice Campaign. Your contribution is key as we expand our organizing efforts throughout Illinois.

 

Volunteers are vital to our success. Click here to learn how you can help!

 

 

Ad Book

See the online edition of our Annual Ad Book here!

 

"Of all the forms of inequalities, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

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America's Agenda

 

 

 

 

 

Midge Hough

 

Storybank member Midge Hough has courageously told her personal health care story at public events, in the media, and sometimes in the face of hostile and extremist reactions from the opponents of health care reform. In the video below, Midge is heckled by so-called "Tea Party Patriots" while she recounts the story of her daughter-in-law's tragic death.

 

 

CBHC Autumn Actions

People are mobilizing all over the state in support of health care reform. Here are some of the ways you can participate right now.

 

Join Organizations in Support of the Public Option

Add your organization's support for a strong public health care option here».

 

Click here for a complete statewide list of Action Events.

Start an action event in your own community! Contact us and we will send you signs, flyers and other materials you may need.

For Downstate events, contact Josephine Kalipeni at jkalipeni@cbhconline.org or 217-352-5600

For Chicago events, contact Jonathan VanderBrug at jvanderbrug@cbhconline.org or 312-913-9449

Click here for your Congressperson's local contact information.

 

It's important to talk to your Congressperson regularly. Tell them to support health care reform that guarantees access to affordable care to everyone, and the freedom to choose between a private plan or a quality public plan. Check our Action Center for more information.

 

Equally important: write letters to the editor of your local paper in support of health insurance reform. Click here try our new Letter to the Editor Builder!

 

"And this is the cause of my life — new hope that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every American north, south, east, west, young, old — will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege. " — Senator Edward Kennedy

 

 

Health Care Justice News,

 

Call for health insurance reform now! Call 1-888-801-4426 and tell our elected officials you want lower costs, more choices, and coverage you can count on!

 

Will Ferrell "defends" insurance company executives.

 

Watch: Wendell Potter talks about the necessity of a strong public option.

 

 

More resources from our partner Community Catalyst

 

 

Read: Affordable Health Care for America Act - Summary (pdf)

 

Read: Affordable Health Care for America Act - Timeline (pdf)

 

Read: Affordable Health Care for America Act - Detailed Summay (pdf)

 

Read: Healthcare Reform Will Help Illinois Small Businesses (pdf)

 

Read: Senator Roland Burris States Why We Need a Public Option

 

Read: New report from Families USA - Costly Coverage: Premiums Outpace Paychecks in illinois (pdf)

 

Read: New America Foundation Report on the Cost of Doing Nothing on Health Care Reform in Illinois (pdf)

 

Daily Health Reform Headlines from the Herndon Alliance

 

Insurer Enlists Employees to Fight Health Reform

Washington Post

 

Women Face Tough Choices on Abortion Coverage
Associated Press

 

Number of Insured Varies by Bill

Wall Street Journal

 

 

Read more...

Out in FrontOut in Front Press Coverage

 

Health Care Round-Up: Foster's Town Hall, Pressuring Lipinski, WTTW's Roundtable 

Progress Illinois

 

Health care Reform Vigil in Urbana

WICD TV

 

DuPage Group's Health Forum Stays True to Form

Daily Herald

 

 

 

 

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