We Need Affordable Health Care for Everyone–Including Immigrants
From the National Immigration Law Center:
STOP THE LIES AND STOP SCAPEGOATING IMMIGRANTS!
CALL SENATE FINANCE AND HOUSE ENERGY & COMMERCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS. OPPOSE HARMFUL AMENDMENTS!!!
Your calls to Members of the Senate Finance Committee and House Energy & Commerce Committee are needed TODAY to ensure immigrant workers and their families have access to affordable health care! Tell them to:
OPPOSE waiting periods and other barriers for legal immigrants for affordable care;
OPPOSE harmful and excessive verification that will prevent citizens and legal immigrants from getting affordable health care and wastes taxpayers dollars;
SUPPORT efforts to remove barriers to affordable care to ensure legal immigrants and our nation’s children have an equal opportunity to be healthy citizens.
Senate Finance Committee : SUPPORT amendment C2 by Senators Menendez (D-NJ) & Bingaman (D-NM)
State of Play
As Congress continues to debate national health care reform, the opposition continues to make false claims about immigrants in order to deny health care to immigrants and their family members and to ultimately derail health care reform. Despite continuing lack of support of their claims, the opposition will keep trying to stall Congress’ efforts to fix health care.
Senate Finance Committee began deliberation this week of a key health care reform proposal that could be the foundation of Congress’ final health care legislation. Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee is concluding deliberation of America’s Affordable Health Choices Act (H.R. 3200), the health care bill that generated so many lies and hatred this summer.
As expected, opponents of both health care reform and immigration reform are attempting to add barriers and restrictions on legal immigrants, citizen family members of immigrants, as well as back door avenues to conduct immigration enforcement as amendments during this week’s health care hearings. Fortunately, there is also an effort this week by some Members of Congress to ensure immigrants and their family members are able to get quality, affordable health care just like everyone one else.
For a detailed list of the potential harmful as well as helpful amendments in Senate Finance Committee that may affect low-income immigrants and their families and vote recommendations, click here.
We need to make sure our Members of Congress hear that we want them to stand up for immigrants and make policy decisions that are sound, rational, and actually help America’s families get quality, affordable health care!
Senate Finance Committee Members:
Baucus , Max (D-MT) , Chairman 202-224-2651
Rockefeller , John D. (D-WV) 202-224-6472
Conrad , Kent (D-ND) 202-224-2043
Bingaman , Jeff (D-NM) 202-224-5521
Kerry , John F. (D-MA) 202-224-2742
Lincoln , Blanche L. (D-AR) 202-224-4843
Wyden , Ron (D-OR) 202-224-5244
Schumer , Charles E. (D-NY) 202-224-6542
Stabenow , Debbie (D-MI) 202-224-4822
Cantwell , Maria (D-WA) 202-224-3441
Nelson , Bill (D-FL) 202-224-5274
Menendez , Robert (D-NJ) 202-224-4744
Carper , Thomas R. (D-DE) 202-224-2441
Grassley, Chuck (R-IA), Ranking Member 202-224-3744
Hatch, Orrin G. (R-UT) 202-224–5251
Snowe, Olympia J. (R-ME) 202-224-5344
Kyl, Jon (R-AZ) 202-224-4521
Bunning, Jim (R-KY) 202-224-4343
Crapo, Mike (R-ID) 202-224-6142
Roberts, Pat (R-KS) 202-224-4774
Ensign, John (R-NV) 202-224-6244
Enzi, Michael B. (R-WY) 202-224-3424
Cornyn, John (R-TX) 202-224-2934
House Energy & Commerce Committee Democrat Members:
Henry A. Waxman, CA, Chair 202-225-3976
Edward J. Markey, MA 202-225-2836
Rick Boucher, VA 202-225-3861
Frank Pallone, Jr., NJ 202-225-4671
Bart Gordon, TN 202-225-4231
Bobby L. Rush, IL 202-225-4372
Anna G. Eshoo, CA 202-225-8104
Bart Stupak, MI 202-225-4735
Eliot L. Engel, NY 202-225-2464
George Radanovich, CA 202-225-4540
Diana DeGette, CO, Vice Chair 202-225-4431
Lois Capps, CA 202-225-3601
Mike Doyle, PA 202-225-2135
Jane Harman, CA 202-225-8220
Jan Schakowsky, IL 202-255-2111
Charles A. Gonzalez, TX 202-225-3236
Jay Inslee, WA 202-225-6311
Tammy Baldwin, WI 202-225-2906
Mike Ross, AR 202-225-3772
Anthony D. Weiner, NY 202-225-6616
Jim Matheson, UT 202-225-3011
G.K. Butterfield, NC 202-225-3101
Charlie Melancon, LA 202-225-4031
John Barrow, GA 202-225-2823
Baron P. Hill, IN 202-225-5315
Doris O. Matsui, CA 202-225-7163
Donna M. Christensen, VI 202-225-1790
Kathy Castor, FL 202-225-3376
John P. Sarbanes, MD 202-225-4016
Christopher S. Murphy, CT 202-225-4476
Zachary T. Space, OH 202-225-6265
Jerry McNerney, CA 202-225-1947
Betty Sutton, OH 202-225-3401
Bruce L. Braley, IA 202-225-2911
Peter Welch, VT 202-225-4115
Your voice is needed at this critical point of health care reform!!
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