Working America on Historic Health Care Vote

[Omaha Steve]

For Immediate Release

Contact: Alison Omens 202-341-7263
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Statement by Working America Executive Director Karen Nussbaum
On Passage of Historic Health Care Reform
March 21, 2010

For the first time in a long time, millions of Americans will go to
sleep tonight knowing that tomorrow will be better. For the 46 million
people without health care and the millions more who don’t have the
coverage they need, today was a very good day. Three million Working
America members join the voices of millions of working people across the
country in thanking Pres. Obama and Congress for pushing for health care
reform that has been a very long time coming.

Today’s vote is a huge leap forward in the struggle for health care for
everyone. Working America spoke to 210,000 people at their homes about
the need for reform, and members lent their voice to the call for health
care – in total, they wrote over 75,000 handwritten letters and made
31,000 phone calls to Congress. Working America members’ health care
stories are those of every American: single moms struggling, nurses
watching the health care system collapse, and manufacturing workers
without a job or health care. They asked their Representatives to
support reform that would help their communities, and today we saw it
happen.

Today’s vote will ultimately be viewed by history as one where Main
Street warriors stood up to the insurance lobby, to the corporate elite,
to the right-wing ideologues and said enough.

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Working America, community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, represents working
families to mobilize around economic issues like health care and good
jobs. Working America represents 3 million people and is the
fastest-growing organization for working people in the country. For more
information, go to www.workingamerica.org.

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Today’s vote will ultimately be viewed by history as one where Main
Street warriors stood up to the insurance lobby, to the corporate elite,
to the right-wing ideologues and said enough.