On January 10th, faith leaders in the health care for all movement held a prayer vigil outside the SustiNet Cabinet meeting at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford. To shed light on the urgent need for action they offered prayers and greeted Cabinet members.
The SustiNet Cabinet is charged with creating a business plan for “alternatives to private insurance,” including the Public Option. With 400,000 residents of CT without access to health care and many small businesses and municipalities crippled by the cost of insurance, it’s clear our system is broken; fixing a problem of this magnitude will require a large-scale, coordinated, public response. The public option IS the pathway to do that – to bring healing to people across the state and end gross racial and ethnic disparities.
The SustiNet Cabinet can open that pathway. The Interfaith Fellowship for Universal Health Care (IFUHC) delivered this message, urging Cabinet members to see their duties through until we have health care for all.
Occupy the Capitol - Demand health care for all!