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Health Care for America NOW!
11:00 a.m. Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Hawaii State Capitol Rotunda
Faith Action for Community Equity (FACE) will hold a press conference on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 11 a.m.at the Hawaii State Capitol rotunda to help launch a national campaign to win quality and affordable healthcare for all. We invite everyone who supports our passion for winning health care justice in America to join us!
Governor Linda Lingle’s recent decision not to release all of the funds allocated by Act 284 for fiscal year 2008 was a breaking of a promise she gave to health care service providers and Medicaid and Quest patients. The State lost $10 million in Federal matching funds. This will not happen again. Act 284 was just a temporary measure and much more needs to be done in our State to keep our health care system accessible to all.
FACE is organizing locally and nationally to seek relief for financially troubled for-profit and not for-profit hospitals, increase the State % of Medicaid reimbursements for services and increase the federal Medicare reimbursements per medical procedure. We are conducting a petition drive gathering 20,000 signatures to ask public officials, healthcare stakeholders and others for their support on these issues in the 2009 State Legislature and new Congress. The petitions will be presented at our Accountability Assembly on October 25.
We call on organizations and individuals to join us at our press conference on Tuesday and to sign our health care petition at www.facehawaii.org.
For more information, contact the FACE office at 522-1304
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