Great News! The CA Senate Health Committee passed all the bills in front of them on June 24, 2010. See Health Access blog.
March 18, 2010 - Democrats get the bill, and the score, they needed
By Ezra Klein, Washington Post
March 17, 2010 - Speech by Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio
Statement declaring Yes vote for health reform bill
President Obama's March 3rd, 2010 Speech on Health Insurance Reform
"We began our push to reform health insurance last March, in this room, with doctors and nurses who know the system best. And so it’s fitting to be joined by all of you as we bring this journey to a close."
Read the full transcript
Read the President's healthcare proposal.
Benefits of Health Care Reform, District by District Impact
Summary of National Health Care Reform Law
H.R. 4872 - The Heath Care & Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Reconciliation package to improve Senate Healthcare Reform bill)
Section-By-Section Analysis of the Reconciliation Act H.R.4872 (easier to read summary)
Congressional Budget Office Analysis of Fiscal Impact of the Reconciliation Act
Visit the UULM Action Network for rallies, lobbying opportunities, and more ways to take action on healthcare reform.
Tabling Kit for Congregations
Would you like to help organize the healthcare team in your congregation? Your congregation can be involved in the UU Voices for Healthcare Project. UU Voices for Health Care Sign-up Sheet.
Healthcare Stories Needed: Submitting stories about the everyday impacts of our healthcare system is the single-most effective way to build the healthcare movement. Host a story-gathering session in your congregation using our easy outline or distribute our story forms during coffee hour and mail us copies of your congregation’s responses. And keep an eye on this website – we’ll soon be collecting stories through the web!
NEW UU Voices for Healthcare Curriculum: An adaptable six-session healthcare curriculum is available to educate and empower UU’s to take action within and beyond their congregations. Topics include healthcare history in the United States, healthcare around the world, healthy equity, understanding single-payer, and more. Order your copy by email.
Grounded in UU values, this targeted health care curriculum from the Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of California deepens participants understanding of their own, and their communities’ struggles and opportunities for change. This new version of UU Voices for Health Care Study Guide:
Provides a small group ministry moving from reflection to action
Offers educational materials empowering congregations to access health reform material, explore health care from a faith perspective, and engage in public advocacy and interfaith dialogue
Supports congregational leadership in building long-term energy for change
Strengthens our California UU faith community social justice network
Addresses issues of health care equity, health care around the world and expanding health care access in California.
Covers recently passed federal law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
The curriculum has six sessions, but each session can stand alone. Order a copy for your congregation today by contacting Sharon Stone at 916.441.0018 or by email today!
What follows in the quality of our helping when we begin to know ourselves beyond separateness? .We are not so much helping out, then, because it is "me" needing to tend to "you". We're helping out because it is "us". The more we understand and dwell in that truth, the more we serve simply in the way of things. If any of "Us" needs help. If one of "Our" arms gets caught in a door, naturally we use the other of "Our" arms to set it free. Helping happens not because it's been weighed and considered; it happens because the barriers to its lawful and automatic expression have fallen away.
- from How Can I Help?
by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman
Helpful questionnaire, courtesy of the Washington Post. See how this Healthcare Reform legislation will affect real citizens.
What this Health Bill means for you.
In 1961 Ronald Reagn went on radio to speak against "Healthcare Reform" (Medicare). Listen to that broadcast.
Ronald Reagan on Healthcare Reform
How California Stands to Gain
A report by Families USA
The President's Healthcare Proposal: Impact on Access and Affordability in CA
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UC Berkeley and National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago February 2010
UULM-Action Network Talking Points for a Strong Federal Public Coverage Option
"A History for Health Care Reform in the United States"
Timeline from the New York Times
Healthcare Glossary of Terms
Practical definition for all the buzz words and lingo that you'll run into working with healthcare reform.
Glossary (by UULM-CA)
Ten Myths and Facts About the U.S. Healthcare System
Myths & Facts from the Center for Policy Analysis
Resources for Worship
Packed with hymns, quotes, and readings - you can use this resource package as you put together services and events.
Themes of Health and Healing
Policy Analysis
Comparing Senate and House Bills - Center for Policy Analysis, December 29, 2009
Health Reform: Obama Budget - Center for Policy Analysis, February 27, 2009
PICO National's Comparison of Health Care Status Quo with Senate and House Bills
Blog by Ellen Shaffer, Co-Director of the Center for Policy Analysis
Reflections by Rev. Debra Haffner, UU minister serving as Executive Director of the Religious Institute
Reflection from Thomas Atwood, UULM Healthcare Steering Committee
Important websites for ongoing healthcare policy information and action alerts:
Center for Policy Analysis
Faithful Reform
Health Access Blog
Health Care for All
Healthcare for America Now
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
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