Health Care for America Now - Update

March 11, 2010

Iowa & Illinois Stand Together To Pass Health Care Reform!

Photo of Die InThe Illinois Campaign for Better Health Care, Quad City's Progressive Action for the Common Good, Interfaith Leaders from Iowa and Illinois joined with the Iowa Citizen Action Network & Health Care for America Now to stage a die-in at St John's Lutheran Church. Our message to congress: Listen to Us, Not the Insurance Companies! People Are Dying Every Day Because They Lack Health Care Coverage!

With lives at stake, health care reform is a moral mandate. People are dying and are impacted daily by the status of our current health care system. Change needs to happen and it needs to happen now. People of faith are asking their elected officials to have political courage, vision, and leadership to show compassion for those that don't have access to quality, affordable health care. Our Members of Congress need to support current reform legislation.

Pastor Josie Walton Calls Citizens to Action!

Remembering All Who Die for Lack of Health Insurance

To symbolize the number of people who die every day without health care, participants dressed in all black lay still on their backs with hands folded, flanked by others holding signs bearing the event's theme "Health Care is a Moral Value."

Pastor Frank Samuelson: "It is immoral to deny health care..."

Several members of the clergy attended. Health care reform is an issue the local Christian community has rallied behind, said Frank Samuelson, a retired St. John's Lutheran pastor from Rock Island.

Pat O'Brien for Rep Hare Calling for Reform Now!

U.S. Rep Phil Hare, D-Rock Island, was represented at the event by Pat O'Brien, his district director. "Congressman Hare could not be here today because he is Washington working on health care reform, which he has been doing for close to a year now," Mr. O'Brien said. "The sign of a great society is how well we treat those among us who can't take care of themselves. The time is now to act with health care."