$40 Million Health Care Campaign to Launch in Virginia and Nationwide
Community Leaders Push for Quality, Affordable Health Care for Every American
Health Care for America Now, a coalition of organizations that includes labor unions, large community-based membership groups, women's groups, doctors, nurses, small businesses, and leading netroots activists, will launch a $40 million campaign to push for quality, affordable health care for every American.
The coalition will hold a press conference on July 8 to outline the mission of the campaign and how it will affect people in Virginia.
Along with the event in Richmond, the campaign will be hosting launch events in 44 cities (including 36 state capitals) across the country. Between now and election day, the group plans to spend $25 million in paid media and have 100 organizers in 45 states.
The campaign's steering committee includes ACORN, AFSCME, Americans United for Change, Campaign for America's Future, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Center for Community Change, MoveOn, NEA, National Women's Law Center, Planned Parenthood, SEIU, UFCW, and USAction.
WHO: Leaders of the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, Virginia Poverty Law Center, Virginia Organizing Project
WHAT: Launch of the $40 million Health Care for America Now campaign
WHERE: House Briefing Room, First Floor, General Assembly Building, Richmond, Va.
WHEN: Tuesday, July 8 at 11 a.m.
Contact: Joe Szakos, Executive Director, Virginia Organizing Project, (434) 984-4655 x 222