Health Care for America Now, a national group working to
provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans, and HCAN’s statewide
partner, the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, will once again
spotlight the health insurance industry’s appalling – but profitable –
practices Tuesday, Oct. 6, in a camera-ready protest outside the United
HealthCare offices in Las Vegas.
The “Big Insurance: Sick of it” campaign will bring
protesters, activists and health care consumers back to the scene of the “crime,”
where insurance industry executives make daily decisions that compromise health
in favor of huge profits and executive salaries. The 11 a.m. event will be in
front of United HealthCare’s offices at 2724 N. Tenaya Way in Las Vegas.
Although polls consistently show significant majorities of
American’s favor reform that provides access to quality health care and
controls costs, the insurance industry is spending millions in advertising and
lobbying to block health-insurance reform in Congress.
Where: 2724 N. Tenaya Way, Las Vegas
When: 11 a.m.-Noon, Tuesday, Oct. 5
For
more information, contact:Theresa Navarro, HCAN State Director, (775)
560-1300; or Michael Ginsburg, PLAN Health Care Organizer, (702) 791-1965.
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Sen. John Ensign to Nevada’s Kids: If You Want Health Care, You Have to Pay
SNWA Board
to Vote Aug. 20 – Will the public be allowed to speak?
The Southern Nevada Water Authority management has
scheduled a “confidence vote” in the plan to pump billions of gallons of water
annually from rural Nevada and Utah to Las Vegas.
PLAN and conservationists from throughout the West are
urging the SNWA board members to do two things: a) Vote against the Las Vegas
Water Grab; and b) Allow the public to speak on the issue!
The SNWA board usually does not allow public input
before important votes. This patently anti-democratic policy has been the
agency’s rule for years, but the board can allow comment. People from
throughout urban and rural parts of Nevada and Utah want to be heard!
CONTACT SNWA BOARD MEMBERS AND ASK THEM TO LISTEN TO
THE PUBLIC BEFORE THEY VOTE!
SNWA board contact info:
SNWA Board Contacts
Name
Representing
Phone
Email
Shari
Buck
North
Las Vegas Mayor
(702)
633-1007
hidden,
see below
Duncan
McCoy
Boulder
City Council
(702)
293-3063
hidden,
see below
Lois
Tarkanian
Las
Vegas City Council
(702)
229-6405
hidden, see below
Steve
Sisolak
Clark
County Commissioner
(702)
455-3500
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Susan
Brager
Clark
County Commissioner
(702)
455-3500
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Tom
Collins
Clark
County Commissioner
(702)
455-3500
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Steve
Kirk
Henderson
City Council
(702)
267-2085
To
contact these people, copy the address into the url and it will bring up an
email window
PLAN and HCAN Hold Town Hall Meeting on Health Care Inequalities
MEDIA ALERT - For Immediate Release
“Town Hall” Meeting
Monday on Health Care Inequalities
For more information, call
Michael Ginsburg, PLAN organizer, at (702) 791-1965,
or Theresa Navarro, HCAN Nevada State Director, at (775)
560-1300.
The Progressive
Leadership Alliance of Nevada and Health Care for America Now will host a panel discussion Monday on health care disparities between minority
communities and the nation at large, with a focus on Las Vegas’ Latino population. While
people of all races have difficulty finding quality health care and health insurance, people of
color face even greater obstacles.
Scheduled speakers will include Dr. Anthony Vavasis, clinical
director, Health Outreach to Teens; Dr. Carl Heard, chief medical officer of
Nevada Health Centers; Dr. Carmen Jones, medical director, HealthCare Advantage;
Margarita Rivera-Wharton, director of access, Healthcare United Way; and other providers and consumers within
minority communities. The panel will begin after a short presentation of
excerpts from the award-winning documentary Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us
Sick?
WHAT: Panel discussion of health care
providers and consumers on disparities in health care.
WHEN: Monday, April 27, 6-8 p.m.
WHERE: Rio Convention Center, 3700 Flamingo Rd.,
Brasilia Ballrooms 2 and 6.
Spanish speaking participants and organizers will be
available for comment.
Progressive Leadership Alliance Nevada
(PLAN) is a non-profit organization
formed in 1994 to bring people and organizations together to build a better
Nevada. We are more than two-dozen groups dedicated to working for social,
economic, and environmental
justice. Our member groups include anti-poverty activists, people of
color, children’s advocates, disabled persons, environmentalists, LGBTG persons,
and labor unions. www.planevada.org
Health Care for America Now (HCAN) is a national grassroots campaign of more than 850
organizations representing 30 million
people dedicated to winning quality, affordable health care we all can count on
in 2009. We are doctors, nurses, community organizations, small business owners, faith-based groups, people of
color, seniors, and children’s and women’s rights groups. We are building a national movement to win comprehensive health care reform by
helping mobilize people in their communities to lobby their Members of Congress
to stand up to the insurance companies and other special interest groups to achieve quality,
affordable health care in 2009.
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