NETWORK's Legislative Update

111th Congress, 2nd Session

March 16, 2010

Catholics for Healthcare Reform

This may seem like déjà vu – here we are again saying this is a critical week for healthcare reform. But please stay with us. Here’s why we need you to act now:

1. The House will vote this week on the bill that passed the Senate in December.
2. We need the Senate bill to pass the House before anything else can happen on healthcare reform.
3. Some House members are still not committed to vote for the Senate bill.
4. All House members need to hear that we, the people, want healthcare reform now.
5. House members who are Catholic especially need to hear from Catholics.

Even if you think your message to you Representative will not affect the vote, know that it is critical that your message affects what they hear from constituents. You can still contribute to the overall clamor for healthcare. And you could be the tipping point for someone’s vote.

Please contact your representative and tell them to vote for the Senate healthcare bill when it come to the House for a vote this week.

You can call via the Capitol switchboard 202-225-3121 and/or send an e-mail via http://capwiz.com/networklobby/issues/alert/?alertid=14816781&type=CO

You can see NETWORK’s latest statement on the healthcare bill at http://www.networklobby.org/press/3-14-10HealthcareReform.htm

Action Using the Legislative Action Center in the past week

2062 messages on Healthcare
  764 messages on Housing Trust Fund

 

3017 total messages sent via NETWORK's Legislative Action Center 

 

Reflection of the week

In our Catholic tradition, health care is a basic human right. Access to health care should not depend on where a person works, how much a family earns, or where a person lives. Instead, every person, created in the image and likeness of God, has a right to life and to those things necessary to sustain life, including affordable, quality health care. This teaching is rooted in the biblical call to heal the sick and to serve "the least of these," our concern for human life and dignity, and the principle of the common good.

from: http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/national/healthcarereform.shtml#CSTHealthCare

 

 

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