The goal of Arizonans United for Health Care is to educate the community about the Affordable Care Act in its current form, according to Alma Hernandez, senior organizer for the group. “We want to remind people the first day to enroll is November 1 and enrollment ends December 15,” she said, “and you can get help signing up.”
The group is building coalitions with other local nonprofits and activists working to inform people about the ACA.
One of the best places to find help signing up is Cover Arizona, according to Hernandez. Type in your zip code, and the website generates a list of places where you can schedule an appointment to get help applying for KidsCare, AHCCCS and the ACA Marketplace.
Arizonans United for Health Care is nonpartisan, Hernandez says, but it isn’t shy about going after Rep. Martha McSally and Sen. Jeff Flake for their votes against the ACA, including in a short video featuring Julie Simons, a single mother who started her own business and provides health insurance for her employees. Simons is also a breast cancer survivor. Citing McSally’s vote against the ACA, Simons worries that an end to affordable coverage for preexisting conditions can endanger her ability to get affordable health care for herself or provide it to her employees.
Arizonans United for Health Care can be contacted using an email form on the bottom of its web page or by messaging on its Facebook page.
This article appears in Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2017.
David, why not call it like it is. This is the democratic party in Tucson. Their goal is to do anything they can to blame Trump and republicans for everything wrong with their lives.
I still want to know how they pay a $10,000 deductible after getting “affordable” health care. Obama made this mess.
You have a right to your health. You have a right to keep the fruits of your labor. You do not have a right to force doctors and nurses to work for you for free.
The headline is incorrect. Healthcare signups begin NOVEMBER 1st.
Contra the right, granting or withholding health care should not be part of “labor discipline.”
But the Democrats solution falls far short of what a genuine solution would be: no health care should be provided through employers, with collective bargaining for rates, poor coverage for employees at small firms, and constant switching from one plan to the next chasing cost savings. The existence of that widespread reality within the private sector is what makes ACA a debacle: it is a sideline business, an exception to the rule, a safety net for those who fall off the high wire of the main game in town. And throughout the system there is siphoning off of substantial profits for insurers and pharmaceuticals.
Health care will not work unless it is single payer. Insurance makes no sense unless the pool is large enough for the actuarial tables to work. Everyone must be required to pay in at the same rate (which will be a lower rate if we don’t allow people to opt out when they don’t think they need it). This would eliminate the pervasive problem of chiseling out those with pre-existing conditions.” EVERYONE pays in from the time they begin working, everyone gets the support they need if they happen to be the statistical outlier who gets a condition that is expensive to treat. And the insurance companies and pharmaceuticals get no cut.
People who cannot find private employment should be required to participate in job corps programs similar to the WPA in exchange for continued coverage. There is plenty of public-benefit work that needs to be done, for example in maintaining or repairing our dangerously deteriorating infrastructure and public services. Not long ago a major freeway bridge collapsed in the Midwest, killing many and damaging more. Entirely preventable.
Is this a first world country? The wealthiest country in the world? A CIVILIZED country? You wouldn’t know it from looking at the way we maintain our public-access spaces or the quality of our public services and infrastructure. And you wouldn’t know it from how we treat our citizens. What happens here — on domestic airlines, in our schools, in our prisons, in our courts, on our roadways, in our health “care” system — looks increasingly like barbarism. And the Democrats, who have entirely lost their souls, try vainly to promote themselves to the desperate, misled public by offering “barbarism lite,” barbarism “with a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down.
No genuine alternatives, no sane and citizen-centered (rather than corporate-centered) programs.
Will the next election bring more of same? It seems likely, and more and more like we have truly and permanently lost our way. The problem is with what America loves, what it worships, which showed itself clearly for what it was in the leadership candidates put forward by both parties in 2016.
As a nation, we desperately need to move beyond lying, cheating, back room deals, and undermining the democratic process. Trump is one problem, but the Dems need to face the fact that since the Clintons pushed and weaseled their way into power, the “Democratic” party has made itself a very, VERY large part of the problem with the political process in America:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774
Thanks to the commenter who said I got the date wrong in the headline. A few people pointed it out to me. My error, my apologies. The date has been corrected to November 1.