Chris Murphy to hold healthcare town hall on 6/14

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Make sure you bring up the public option!

Town Hall Meeting on Health Care Reform

Sunday, June 14

3-5pm

Eno Memorial Hall

754 Hopmeadow Street

Simsbury, CT

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1. Support State Healthcare Initiatives

Chris Murphy has been great on the public option:

“The idea behind the public option is to offer consumers and businesses a choice and to provide some real competition to private insurers,” Murphy said. “If we’re talking about potentially helping to subsidize health insurance for thousands, if not millions of Americans, then we want to make sure that the private health insurers have some real competition from a plan that has no profit motivation, no reason to prop up premiums to pay big CEO salaries, only has at its basis a fundamental obligation to provide care.”

See: http://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/health_care/state_pushes_for_federal_healt.php#more

This spring the House and Senate passed two bills that would create new public options at the state level, the Healthcare Partnership and Sustinet. The Partnership would open the state employee plan to municipalities, small businesses and non-profits. Sustinet would go even further, creating new public options for uninsured and underinsured employees, families and individuals.

The only thing standing between Connecticut citizens and the creation of a new public model is Governor Rell's signature. Call or email her and ask her to say YES!

Toll Free: 800-406-1527

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