Women’s Health Advocates Speak Up in Push for Health Reform
Avery’s Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need has launched a national action campaign aimed at mobilizing grassroots women to speak out at Congressional town hall meetings and candidate forums about problems in the current health system and the need for health reform. The campaign emphasizes women’s roles as health decision-makers and coordinators of care for entire families, positioning women as sources of “kitchen table wisdom” about what’s wrong with the health system and how it might be fixed.A $500,000 commitment per steering committee member, along with a $10 million grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies, kicked off HCAN, which represents the mainstream progressive push for health care reform heading into a new national administration in 2009. Other steering committee members include ACORN, Americans United for Change, Campaign for America’s Future, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Center for Community Change, MoveOn.org, USAction and several big unions.
