Right now, thousands of corporate insurance industry lobbyists are descending on Capitol Hill. It's up to us to make sure that Congress hears from real moms and dads, too.

We're on it! And you can be too! Fabulous MomsRising members across the country are working hard right now to set up meetings with U.S. Senate offices in your state. Can you join us at a local meeting with your U.S. Senate office to talk about healthcare and, importantly, to help deliver the personal healthcare stories of hundreds of MomsRising members who can't be there in-person? Kids are welcome!

Just click here to sign on that you'd like to attend a meeting about healthcare with your local U.S. Senate office.

You can simply attend a meeting, or you can choose to set up a meeting in a state that doesn't have a coordinator yet. We already have meetings set up in 32 states, so we still need meeting coordinators in some states to help us reach all 50! If there isn't a meeting set up yet in your state, then you can sign up to schedule one. Setting up a meeting is easy and we'll give you everything you need. If you want to invite your friends to join you at a local meeting, just forward this email far and wide.

Can't make it there in person? Click here.

Why go to a meeting with your local U.S. Senate office? The answer is simple. Healthcare is really heating up right now. We need you to stand up for the seven in ten working-age women who don't have insurance, are underinsured, or who are in debt because of medical bills1; as well as for the 5 million children who will remain without health insurance even after the implementation of the Children's Health Insurance Program.2

Frankly, all too often the stories and needs of mothers and children are ignored. Now's the time to make sure that our voices are heard loud and clear!

At the meeting, you'll not only have a chance to share your own personal healthcare experiences, you'll also be delivering a book of powerful and moving MomsRising member healthcare stories.

This way you can represent, in person, the over a million MomsRising members across the country who are demanding a fix for our broken healthcare system, but who may not be able go to a U.S. Senate office in-person.

Can you stand up for our nation's families by attending or scheduling a meeting? Click here to find a U.S. Senate office meeting in your area.

And, if you can't attend a local meeting, then please make sure you take a moment to sign up here so we can let you know about other ways to take action on issues affecting your state and family.

Hope you can join us!

-- Donna, Julia, Dionna, Ashley, Anita, Kristin, and the MomsRising Team

P.S. Please note that some of the exact dates, times, and locations for local Senate office meetings are still being finalized with the office --so if you see TBD (To Be Determined) or TBA (To Be Announced) any place in the events logistics section for your state, then your meeting is still being set up. Also, meeting dates listed as 12/31 are also still TBD -- we can't wait that long for our voices to be heard!

Sign up anyway if you're interested! We'll email you with updates as they happen--and we understand that you may not be able to attend if the date conflicts with your calendar. Here's that link again: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1768/p/10046/healthcare?supporter_KEY=15078963

Citations:

[1] S. D. Rustgi, M. M. Doty, and S. R. Collins, Women at Risk: Why Many Women Are Foregoing Needed Health Care, The Commonwealth Fund, May 2009.

[2] Children's Defense Fund, Give Voice to Children in the Health Care Debate, http://www.childrensdefense.org/helping-americas-children/childrens-health/health-coverage-for-all-children-campaign/give-a-voice-to-children-in-health-care-debate.html