WV Rally for Health Care Reform
Planned for May 3, 2008 -- 10 AM to 1 PM
Be
a part of bringing change to West Virginia. Be a part of the march
on the Capitol.
Park at the state employees’ parking lot at the Capitol before 10 am. A bus will take you down to West Virginia Health Right, a free clinic for the uninsured, at 1524 Washington Street, E. We will then march down Washington Street to the Capitol. Speeches will begin at noon and end by 1 PM.
Help organize your neighborhood or work place, or help plan the rally. Contact WVAHC at either pbryant@wvahc.org or 304-344-1673. We need your active involvement. | Read more...
Costly Health Care:
Serious Problems Call for Serious Solutions
Run-away
health care costs put everyone’s care in jeopardy. We’ve
found solutions--straightforward, doable actions to control costs and
provide coverage to everyone. Our Blueprint shows the way, right now.
A Blueprint for Health Care
Reform in West Virginia: A Shared Responsibility.
(partial funding from the Claude Worthington Bennington Foundation)
or read our 12-page summary booklet.
(partial funding from the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston)
WVAHC's
PowerPoint presentation
on comprehensive health care reform in West Virginia. (Free PowerPoint viewer if you need it. Or you may view the
same
slides in PDF format. (You can download a
free Adobe Reader for PDF files.)
WVAHC can make a presentation on our health care reform proposal to your group. E-mail Perry Bryant or call 304-344-1673.
Cover the Kids
Thirty-four
thousand West Virginia children have no health insurance coverage
says the U.S. Census Bureau. The West Virginia Children's Health
Insurance Program could cover many of them if only our legislature would
expand CHIP eligibility standards. WVAHC has asked Governor Manchin to establish a goal of covering all West Virginia children
under the age of 18 by January 1, 2009. Read our
letter to Governor
Manchin.
- Impacts of Medicaid and SCHIP on Low-Income Children’s Health (Kaiser Foundation)
- A Race to the Top: Illinois’s All Kids Initiative (Kaiser Foundation) (The Illinois program is the most expansive effort in the country for covering all children. While it would be difficult to duplicate Illinois’s program here, it’s time West Virginia covers as many children as possible.)
Write to your legislators and the governor and tell them you support expanded CHIP coverage and comprehensive heath care reform in West Virginia. You'll find links to their addresses on our Legislative Priorities page.
Read a list of talking points about why comprehensive health care is so needed in West Virginia.