The NAACP's 880 Campaign for Real Health Care Reform

A message from Congressional Black Caucus Chair Barbara Lee on the importance of grassroots activism in the health care fight.

Tell Congress Now

Please e-mail your representatives and urge them to pass comprehensive health care with a strong public option that offers affordable, quality care to all Americans and eliminates racial health disparities.

November 21, 2009

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Dear Representative:

As your constituent, I urge you to do all you can to pass comprehensive health care reform with a strong public option that provides affordable, quality care to all Americans.  Too many Americans today are straining under the burden of two related trends: shrinking health care coverage and rising health care costs.

As a supporter of the NAACP, I am also asking you to ensure that health care reform eliminates racial disparities. Even today, the color of your skin, your ethnic background and where you live can not only influence your health care access and quality; they can determine them. And while medical science has made a lot of advances over the last 10 years, the gains made by the discovery of new drugs and treatments have not been passed on to all segments of our population.

As such, any comprehensive health care reform package must:

* Include a strong public option that provides a choice for low cost, basic coverage and creates honest competition for private insurers.
* Provide full health care coverage that is affordable to every individual, family and business and covers all pre-existing conditions
* Contain standard, comprehensive health care benefits that meet everyone’s needs from preventive to chronic care
* Provide individuals with the choice of a private or public health care plan, which includes a guaranteed backup which will always be there to ensure quality, affordable health care coverage no matter what
* Ensure equity in health care access, treatment, research, and resources to people and communities of color and stronger health services in low-income communities.

I understand there are no simple solutions, but I hope that you will do your best to ensure that these four goals are met. Please support health care reform with a strong public option tomorrow and let us be the first generation of Americans to succeed in securing affordable, quality health care for all. Thank you.

Sincerely,

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