For
Immediate Release:
March 14, 2012
OBAMA FOR AMERICA LAUNCHES NURSES FOR OBAMA
CHICAGO
–
Obama
for America announced today the launch of Nurses for Obama, a campaign
initiative designed to mobilize nurses across the country.
As we approach the two-year anniversary of President Obama’s
landmark health reform, the Obama campaign is engaging our supporters
to talk about how health reform has already changed lives for the
better. Because nurses are on the frontlines of our health care
system, they are involved in every step of the way from prevention to
patient care and have seen firsthand how health care reform has already
benefited their patients.
Nurses for Obama will equip volunteers with resources and effective
ways they can be advocates for health care reform in their communities.
Grassroots volunteers will organize neighborhood by neighborhood, and
block by block talking to their friends, family
and co-workers – holding nurse-to-nurse trainings, planning sessions,
house parties and phone banks.
Nurses know better than anyone why health insurance reform was so
desperately needed. They see firsthand the heartbreaking consequences
when insurance companies defer treatment or deny coverage; they know
that insurance premiums and prescriptions can consume
a family’s entire budget. Every day they interact with patients who
couldn't afford to see a doctor and had to go to the emergency room for
something as simple as a sore throat.
“I’ve been a nurse for nearly 20 years, working everywhere
from a 20 bed hospital on the Navajo reservation to a world class
hospital in Pennsylvania. One thing is consistent – access to health
care saves lives. Before
health care reform, we had a true emergency in healthcare.
Americans
were forced to disregard their doctors and nurses’ advice when their
insurance companies denied the necessary care, and this resonates very
personally with me as this is how my mother-in-law
died. By giving the power back to patients and their health care
providers, millions of American families are breathing a sigh of relief
having access to healthcare,” said Pennsylvania nurse Michelle Boyle.
President Obama knows nurses play an essential role in our health care
system, and thanks to the new health care law, nurses are gaining new
tools and resources to help them help their patients.
For additional information about Nurses for Obama, please visit www.barackobama.com/nurses.
Also be sure to check out the campaign’s
new
online tool
highlighting
health reform’s benefits.
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CONTACT:
Obama for America Press Office