Subject: [big campaign] FW: UPDATED PRESS CALL: The Negative Effects McCain's Health Care Plan Would Have on Women
From: "Adam Jentleson (CAPAF)" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:20:00 -0400
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From: Center For American Progress Action Fund
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Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 7:01 PM
To: Adam Jentleson (CAPAF)
Subject: UPDATED PRESS CALL: The Negative Effects McCain's Health Care
Plan Would Have on Women

 <http://www.americanprogressaction.org/>  

For Immediate Release
September 9, 2008

Contact
Adam Jentleson, 202.682.1611 
[email-masked]

UPDATED PRESS CALL: The Negative Effects McCain's Health Care Plan Would
Have on Women

WASHINGTON, DC-On Wednesday, September 10, at 10am EDT the Center for
American Progress Action Fund and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund
will host a conference call with Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Laurie
Rubiner, and Karen Davenport to discuss the negative effects Senator
McCain's health care plan would have on women.

Sen. McCain's health plan would drastically restructure America's health
care system with especially devastating consequences for women, as
detailed in a new report by the Center for American Progress Action Fund
and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Worse for Women: An Analysis of
the Effects Senator McCain's Health Plan Would Have on Women's Access to
Health Care. McCain's plan would dangerously destabilize the
employer-based health insurance system upon which 160 million
non-elderly Americans rely for their health care, steering them instead
toward the individual market where basic medical needs often are not
covered.

Tens of millions of women would be at risk of losing their current
insurance coverage even though they use health care services more
frequently than men, suffer chronic illness more often than men, and
require maternity care and other reproductive health services.
Specifically, under the McCain health plan:

*	More than 59 million women who receive their health insurance
through their job, or their spouse's job, are at risk of losing that
insurance 
*	More than 30 million women with employer-sponsored health
insurance who suffer from a chronic condition could lose their coverage,
find it harder to obtain coverage, or have to purchase supplemental
insurance to cover their chronic condition 

In addition, Sen. McCain's health plan would erode important state
requirements aimed specifically at protecting women's access to some of
their most basic health needs.

Please email Jason Rahlan at [email-masked] if you
plan to attend the call.

NOTE: NEW CALL-IN NUMBER IS BELOW

WHAT: Women and McCain's Health Care Plan

WHEN: Wednesday, September 10, at 10am EDT

CALL IN INFO: 888-674-0223 - Conference ID McCain Health Care

WHO: Rep. Diana DeGette
<http://degette.house.gov/?sectionid=54&sectiontree=2,54> , Member of
Congress

Laurie Rubiner
<http://www.plannedparenthood.org/newsroom/press-releases/laurie-rubiner
-appointed-vp-public-policy-advocacy-22198.htm> , Vice President for
Public Policy, Planned Parenthood Action Fund

Karen Davenport
<http://www.americanprogressaction.org/aboutus/staff/DavenportKaren.html
> , Director of Health Policy, Center for American Progress Action Fund

The Center for American Progress Action Fund
<http://www.americanprogressaction.org/>  is the sister advocacy
organization of the Center for American Progress
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progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications,
legislative action, grassroots organizing and advocacy, and partnerships
with other progressive leaders throughout the country and the world. The
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