Wendell Potter, CIGNA whistle blower leads ‘Crucial Conversation’
The NC Justice Center will hold the next installment in it’s ‘Crucial Conversation’ lunch series next Tuesday, September 29, 2009. The guest speaker will be Wendell Potter.
Until recently, Potter was a senior executive for corporate communications at CIGNA, a major private health insurance company. His job was [...]

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White House bus is coming to Charlotte, Raleigh tomorrow (9/3)
Join political, community and grass roots leaders from across the state as we rally together in support for health insurance reform. We’ll welcome the Organizing for America (OFA) bus as it makes its final stops before heading back to Washington, DC.
Thousands of North Carolina residents publicly [...]

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Almost 63,000 calls to Congress for reform
Thanks to everyone who participated in the National Call-In Day for Health Care Reform on Tuesday. Your efforts and those of our allies in the coalition for health care reform resulted in 62,941 calls to Congress in just one day.
North Carolina ranked 8th out of 50 states with 1,178 [...]

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Call the Congress July 28 from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.
It’s time. Health care costs are skyrocketing, and last fall we voted for real change. Congress needs to support President Obama and pass health care reform in this session.
Tomorrow is an important day for our federal legislative agenda – National Call-In [...]

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Tuesday, July 28 from 9 A.M. – 5 P.M.
It’s time. Health care costs are skyrocketing, and last fall we voted for real change. Congress needs to support President Obama and pass health care reform in this session.
Call your representative and tell him or her your union and your family want our broken health care system [...]

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Because reforming health care can’t wait
Thousands of Americans traveled to Washington, DC on June 25 to demand the Congress pass meaningful health care reform. Hundreds made the trip from North Carolina to participate in a rally followed by town halls held around the capital.

Here’s a sampling of press coverage of health care lobby day:

Wall Street [...]

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HCAN members and supporters of health care reform took a bus up to Washington D.C. to meet with Senator Hagan last week. The Senator joked that she felt right at home seeing so many North Carolinian faces in D.C. During her short speech, she addressed the issue of health care reform.
“I think that what [...]

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