Pennsylvania Health Care activists have been on the move for months, holding four to five events every week all over the state. And tomorrow, about 2,000 of us are heading to Washington DC for a national rally followed by a Pennsylvania Town Hall.
I know that many of you wish you could join us. We do have a few seats left in Pittsburgh but otherwise the 20 HCAN buses and the 16 buses being run by our labor partners are pretty much full. If we had enough buses, we could have taken 5,000 people from PA to Washington.
But you can watch our Pennsylvania Town Hall tomorrow, Thursday June 25th at 1:30 pm, on a webcast at http://tinyurl.com/mab6sp
Senator Specter and PA Representatives Dahlkemper, Doyle, Sestak and Schwartz will be speaking at the Town Hall along with many of the leaders of HCAN and our coalition partners in the state.
Please join us, if only remotely. And tell your friends about our campaign with our tell a friend, tool at http://healthcareforamericanow.org/page/invite/PAweb.
This is the moment to make health care reform happen and we need everyone with us to do so. The insurance companies and their right wing allies are just ramping up their campaign. I just got off a radio talk show in Pittsburgh. To judge by people who listen to this right leaning host, the right wing attack machine is going to come out in full force. (To be fair: the host was a smart and well informed critic of our plans.)
We are ahead of them, but to stay ahead We have 17,000 Pennsylvanian Health Care Activists on the HCAN list now. We need to keep building it so that we can what we call rapid response: get thousands of people to send an email to or call their member of Congress at every critical moment in this effort.
It’s that kind of grassroots effort that has brought every Pennsylvania Democratic member of Congress more or less to our side. It’s that kind of effort that is going to keep them there.