Last night, we witnessed history in the making. After a long, hard battle, Congress voted to pass the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, an historic piece of legislation that will bring our nation closer to necessary and long-overdue reform of our broken health insurance system.<\/p>\n
So many Reform Movement activists took action through the Religious Action Center’s website.<\/b> You<\/u> signed our petition to Congress, you<\/u> joined the faith community’s conference call with President Obama, and you<\/u> wrote to your lawmakers to demand comprehensive reform. You<\/u> took democracy into your own hands and told Congress that the status quo is unacceptable – that health care should be a right, not a privilege.<\/p>\n
<\/strong> Guided by teachings in our sacred texts, we remain committed Thank you for all you do.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night, we witnessed history in the making. After a long, hard battle, Congress voted to pass the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, an historic piece of legislation that will bring our nation closer to necessary and long-overdue reform of our broken health insurance system. So many Reform Movement activists took action through the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n The House’s action moves us closer to reform based on the principles
\nfor which we have firmly advocated: protection of low income and other
\nvulnerable populations, higher quality and more affordable care, and a
\nsystem based on a financially sustainable foundation. The bill adopted
\nby the House is not perfect, but it is necessary – and will help us
\nprovide a healthy future for millions of Americans.<\/p>\n
\nto the passage of health insurance reform that provides the highest
\nquality of care for the greatest number of Americans. Yesterday’s
\nHouse-passed bill brings us closer to that goal, and we are proud of
\nthe role that you, Reform Movement activists, played in this critical
\nvictory.<\/p>\n