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Health Care for America Now was able to bring people from across the country to the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court this week to tell their stories about how Obamacare is already helping them and millions of Americans.

Click here to see a photo gallery of activity on the Supreme Court steps.

Stacie Ritter’s twin girls, childhood cancer survivors who can not be denied care due to pre-existing conditions.

For three days the justices heard oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. Outside, thousands of people gathered to fight the Republican attack on this law and health care programs like Medicaid and Medicare.

HCAN and our allies were out in force and made a big splash in the media. Here are just a few of the people who were able to tell the national press their stories:

Theodore Method is a military veteran and retired postal worker from Virginia whose wife has Alzheimer’s disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and congestive heart failure and is now living in a nursing home where Theodore goes to feed her lunch every day. If his wife’s Medicaid benefits were cut, Theodore would have to exhaust his own retirement funds to maintain his wife’s standard of care and would quickly run out of resources for both of them.
Spike Dolomite Ward was uninsured when she was diagnosed last year with Stage 3 breast cancer. Now she is covered and receiving chemotherapy thanks to Obamacare’s Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan.
Stacie Ritter is a Pennsylvania mom to twin daughters who survived leukemia after the family battled with the insurance company and filed for bankruptcy. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, her daughters can never again be excluded from coverage because of pre-existing conditions. We know these stories had an impact on those who heard them this week.

We know these stories had an impact this week. Please watch the videos showing how important the health care law is here and here.

We will continue to fight the tea party and extremist Republicans to protect this law and put people before profits. Thank you for your continued support and commitment to providing affordable, quality health care for all.

Thanks,

Will O’Neill Health Care for America Now

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Discriminatory Health Insurance Practices Cost Women $1 Billion a Year … Judy Waxman, National Women’s Law Center

03/27/2012 Nativegrl77

National Women's Law Center - I Will Not Be Denied: Protect Women's Health Care

Yes, really: insurance companies CAN charge women higher premiums than men for the same insurance plans, to the tune of $1 billion per year. But thanks to the health care law, this discriminatory practice is on its way out.

I Will Not Be Denied: Protect Women's Health Care

Have you watched our video about how the health care law is helping women and their families and what’s at stake without the law? After you watch it — make sure to share it with your family, friends, and co-workers.
Today, as the Supreme Court began three days of arguments about the health care law, there is one argument that has already been won: the health care law is helping women and their families across the country.
Thanks to the health care law, over 100 million Americans no longer face limits on the amount of their health care insurers will cover over their lifetime; over twenty million women have received at least one preventive health care service without a co-pay in the past year. Thanks to the ACA, over two million young adults under 26 years old have kept health coverage because they could stay on their parents’ plans.
And this is just the beginning. You can’t argue with the facts.
Share our video today about how we are benefiting from the health care law and help your friends and family see what’s at stake for women if the law goes away.
Thanks for everything you do for women and their families.
Sincerely,

Judy Waxman Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights National Women’s Law

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50 Attorneys General vs. Citizens United … Michael Langenmayr, Democracy for America

03/14/2012 Nativegrl77

Two years ago, the Supreme Court decided that big corporations and the super rich have a “right” to spend unlimited amounts of money in our elections. The Justices that supported this ridiculous decision just expected states to fall in line behind the ruling and abandon their campaign finance laws, but they haven’t.

States like Montana are fighting back against Citizens United — and they’re winning.

Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock took his fight to keep common sense election laws on the books all the way to the Montana Supreme Court — and he won. It’s time that other State Attorneys General do the same.

Back-up Steve Bullock in his fight against Citizens United — Sign the petition to get your Attorney General to stand up for common sense campaign finance laws.

Right-wing groups like Citizens United aren’t stopping at the federal level. They’re dismantling campaign finance laws across the country — working to allow unlimited corporate spending up and down the ballot and even to undo basic disclosure laws that require campaigns to report who’s giving these unlimited contributions.

We’ve seen what the Citizens United ruling has done to federal politics — attack ads flooded the airwaves in 2010 and are dominating the Republican presidential primaries. We can’t allow that same sort of unlimited corporate spending at the state and local levels.

The campaign to overturn Citizens United is going to be a long one, but state Attorneys General can make a real difference right now — and you can get them off the sidelines.

Tell your Attorney General to stand up for common sense campaign finance laws — Sign the petition now.

Thank you for everything you do.

– Michael

Michael Langenmayr, Political Director
Democracy for America

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100,000 Demand Thomas Recusal

02/27/2012 Nativegrl77

Because of you, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas got 100,000 messages last week telling him to do the right thing.
We carried those 100,000 messages to the court’s front door in a petition demanding that Justice Thomas disqualify himself from the big health reform case that will be decided by June.
Health Care for America Now and The Other 98% went to the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., and delivered a 334-foot long petition demanding that Thomas recuse himself because of his blatant disregard for legal ethics.
Click here to view a one-minute video of the delivery.
Justice Thomas’s wife has been employed as an agitator on behalf of conservative groups hostile to health reform. He has also been involved socially and politically with groups militantly opposed to the law.
Many who signed the petition are lawyers and retired judges, government officials and prosecutors. They are disgusted and appalled that Justice Thomas doesn’t see how he’s hurting the reputation of the Supreme Court.
Our 100,000 voices are trying to tell Justice Thomas to do the right thing and avoid ruling on a case that has already put more than $600,000 in the Thomases’ bank account.

We aren’t giving up.

Thank you for your support.
Will O’Neill

Health Care for America Now

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has significant conflicts of interest -Affordable Health Care Act

12/08/2011 Nativegrl77

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has significant conflicts of interest that make it impossible for him to render a fair, impartial decision in the health care case being reviewed by the Court. Political groups determined to repeal or overturn the Affordable Care Act have been filling Thomas’s family bank account for years. His wife Virginia has been a crusader in the campaign to defeat the law. She has raised money and taken money from organized efforts to kill health reform.

It’s time for Clarence Thomas to recuse himself – join our letter to Associate Justice Thomas TODAY. click on link below http://healthcareforamericanow.org/page/m/3560d829/5131405c/333fe647/786f0c2e/746129166/VEsH/

Justice Thomas personally has aligned himself with political activists and organizations dedicated to thwarting the new health care law. He spoke at a secret conclave run by the billionaire Koch Brothers to raise funds for organizations like Americans for Prosperity. Seventy-four members of the House of Representatives have even taken the highly unusual step of requesting that Justice Thomas remove himself from participation in deliberations on the Affordable Care Act.

If Justice Thomas fails to recuse himself, it will threaten the integrity of the entire Supreme Court.

It’s time to send Clarence Thomas a message: recuse yourself.

In Solidarity,
Melinda Gibson
Health Care for America Now