CRUNCH TIME FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM

Hi Friends,

Right now it's crunch time for health care reform.

The president knows it: Our advocates on Capitol Hill have learned that Obama cleared his schedule for the next two weeks so that he can focus on health care.

The health care industry knows it, too: They're spending $1.4 million EVERY DAY to sway fence-sitting lawmakers and weaken or defeat the reforms.

If the leader of the free world has set all other business aside to accomplish real health care reform, can you help him out at this critical moment?

Please take a minute right now to call your senator and ask her to support the president's health care plan.

You can find talking points and report your call on our website.

Here's what else we'll be doing across the country:

* Building a grassroots movement. Our canvassers are talking with hundreds of thousands of Americans face-to-face about health care, to swell the ranks of our supporters.

* Dispelling myths. Big industry and their Washington lobbyists are trying to convince Mom and Pop small businesses that they can't afford health care reform. So next week, we're holding press conferences in 18 states to release a new report on how small businesses can tackle their health care problems.

* Working in the Capitol. We're meeting with lawmakers in D.C. and organizing support for health care reform in their districts.

* Foiling the opposition. We're also going to tour health care swing states, and we're bringing a special guest to help us sway fence-sitters. Stay tuned.

The House leadership just introduced the America's Affordable Health Choices Act, and is racing to win House passage by the August congressional recess. If your health care premiums are rising, if anyone you knew ever was denied care they needed, if you're sick of our broken health care system, now is the time you can actually do something about it.

Please click below to call your senator and demand real health care reform now.

http://www.uspirg.org/action/health-care/call-your-senator?id4=ES

Sincerely,

Andre Delattre
U.S. PIRG Executive Director
AndreD@uspirg.org
http://www.uspirg.org

P.S. Thanks for your continued support. Please feel free to share this e-mail with your friends and family.

P.P.S. To read members' testimonials on our health care crisis, or submit your own, visit our health care stories page.

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