From the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (http://www.pahealthaccess.org):
New vigils added in Harrisburg and Allentown. See other vigils below.
NOTE: For a link to what you can do in addition to or if you can’t attend a vigil, go to https://www.pachurchesadvocacy.org/next-two-weeks-crucial-call-senators-to-protect-medicaid/.
Right now, Senate leadership is secretly negotiating a bill nearly identical to the House one that would end coverage for 23 million people and slash funds for Medicaid. It gives power to insurance companies to charge older Americans and people with pre-existing conditions more and cuts funding to seniors, children, and people with disabilities.
With so many lives on the line, the Senate secrecy is unacceptable. Constituents have a right to know what the future holds for their health care.
This is why the Pennsylvania Health Access Network and our partners will join consumers across the state this Thursday, June 22nd and into Friday, June 23rd in 24-hour vigils outside Senator Toomey’s offices.
We will stand for 24 hours with Brian, a colon cancer survivor who credits Medicaid Expansion for saving his life. We will stand with Marlee whose son relies on Medicaid to manage his Type 1 diabetes. We will stand with the 777,000 Pennsylvanians who would lose coverage. We will not let healthcare die in darkness.
Will you join us?
This is not political. This is personal. And it is a moral issue. We are proud to announce that we will be joined at the start of the vigil by the Rev. Dr. William Barber II, president of the North Carolina NAACP, leader of the Moral Mondays civil rights protest movement in that state, and member of the NAACP national board. Rev. Barber fights for social justice across this nation and will join the group in Philadelphia at 3:00 PM on Thursday. RSVP HERE. Share the event on facebook.
Other vigil sites are currently:
If you would like to join a vigil in an area not listed, please respond to robin@pahealthaccess.org. If you are a consumer who would be negatively impacted by changes to Medicaid or the ACA and would like to join us for 24 hours please respond to robin@pahealthaccess.org.
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