The Health Care For America Campaign in Pennsylvania
Penn ACTION and our Executive Director, Marc Stier, led the Health Care For America Campaign in Pennsylvania, which was critical to enacting the Affordable Care Act in Washington. Here is an overview of the strategy and achievements of the biggest issue campaign in Pennsylvania history—Health Care For America Now. We mobilized Congressional champions for healthcare reform. Some of our members of the House—such as Allyson Schwartz, Bob Brady, Chaka Fattah, Joe Sestak, and Mike Doyle—and Senator Casey were long time supporters of health care reform. But in Washington, there is a huge step between an abstract commitment to some ideal and the hard, slogging work of moving legislation through Congress. So first task was to light a fire under potential champions for health care reform. This began during the election of 2008. We focused the election on the health care issue. And together with HCAN groups in 42 other states, we… Continue reading
