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June 28, 2006
“Whenever you get a raise, the health
insurance premium goes up too. And you see a lot of people working
longer. If they retire, they can't afford insurance.”
James Brown
Road maintenance worker
AFSCME Local 3250
West Virginia Council 77
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Tell Your Health Care Story
Across the country AFSCME members and
everyday Americans are struggling with health care. Premiums are
rising, coverage is shrinking and quality is
eroding. Over the past two weeks, 12,000 of us spoke
as one voice and signed the AFSCME health care petition.
Now let’s tell our individual
stories.
Click here to tell your
health care story.
Have you ever been denied care for services
you desperately needed? Has a friend or loved one lost their
insurance coverage? Have your premiums and co-pays increased
faster than your pay? While bargaining with management, does
health care overwhelm every other issue?
Submit your health care
story today.
We’ll compile these
stories and report back to you on what members are going through
across the country. We’ll also use AFSCME members’
stories when we talk to politicians about health care and push
to elect leaders who are committed to doing something about the
health care crisis in this country.
To get you started, here are a few
examples:
“Unless I'm very ill, I don't see a doctor because
I don’t have health coverage, and I just can't afford it.
It's scary because I don't know what tomorrow will bring.
Instead of medical care, I pray a lot."
-- Mary Jarvis,
family child care provider, CSEA Local 1000
“As an AFSCME member and a nurse I know that the
uninsured are charged triple what insured people pay when they
go to a doctor’s office. And that expense is passed on to
all of us.”
--Joyce Tiddei, nurse and president
of Local 3145 (Connecticut Council 4)
In
solidarity,
Tracey Conaty
AFSCME e-Activist
Network
Visit the web address below to tell your friends about AFSCME's
e-Activist Network..
Tell-a-friend!
Click here to sign up for
AFSCME Action Center.
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AFSCME WV Council 77, AFL-CIO
501 Leon Sullivan Way, 1st Floor
Charleston, WV 25301
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(304) 342-2114
Fax (304) 342-2441
Council77@aol.com
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