Sign petition to Save Washington State's Basic Health Plan
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Seattle Radical Women is working on a campaign to save our state's
Basic Health Plan, a public health plan for poor and low-wage
workers. It is being held up nationally as a great public option
example for other states to follow. (Listen to the NPR story on this
here: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kplu/news.newsmain/article/0/1/1575....)
The NPR story doesn't mention it but the state's just cut $238 million
from the program, forcing tens of thousands to go off it. We're
collecting signatures on a petition to the Governor and Legislature
calling for them to increase funding to the program, not cut it. The
petition calls for the state to tax corporate profits and the
wealthy. We have over 1600 on paper and just started collecting them
online as well here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/defend-the-washington-state-basic-health-plan
Can you help by signing the petition?
National attention to this issue is good, especially given the
uncritical report from NPR and
others.
To read more about the campaign, check out our website here:
http://www.radicalwomen.org/sos.html
On Facebook here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sisters-Organize-for-Survival/154920298429
On Twitter here:
http://twitter.com/SisOrgSurvival
Feel free to write me if you have any questions. Thank you for your
help.
In solidarity,
Doreen - Seattle