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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U.S. Senator Kay Hagan

Elections, resolutions, and answering the call to action
At our recently concluded 52nd Annual Convention in Atlantic Beach, NC, delegates took action on a range of issues, including the election of officers and executive board members, approving resolutions to guide our work for the next year, and writing letters to the Congress in [...]

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On Thursday, representatives from AFSCME, the AFL-CIO of NC, Planned Parenthood Health Systems of NC, NC Fair Share, and NC ACORN delivered over a 1,243 letters and statements from North Carolinians encouraging Senator Hagan to support a public health insurance plan.
“Voters want their elected representatives to guarantee quality affordable health care. They want a [...]

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Let’s keep up the pressure for real reform!
The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee has released – with Senator Hagan’s support – health care reform legislation that would cover 97% of Americans at a 10-year cost of $600 billion – hundreds of billions less than an earlier proposal that did not include [...]

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