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#ProtectOurCare Meet Nina in Tuscon

January 3, 2017
Quality, affordable healthcare coverage is incredibly important to families in the U.S. MomsRising has recieved thousands of messages from our volunteers with stories about why the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare), Medicaid, CHIP, and Medicare matter for the health of their families. This #...
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#ProtectOurCare Meet Rachel in Indiana

January 3, 2017
Quality, affordable healthcare coverage is incredibly important to families in the U.S. MomsRising has recieved thousands of messages from our volunteers with stories about why the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare), Medicaid, CHIP, and Medicare matter for the health of their families. This #...
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Tell your members of Congress: Access to quality, affordable healthcare matters for families!

December 30, 2016
Our families' healthcare security is at risk! Representative Price, President-elect Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, and his allies in Congress want to roll back advances in healthcare coverage and gut current healthcare programs. This is a national emergency! Your...
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Quality, affordable health coverage is a lifesaver for families in the U.S.

December 28, 2016
In recent weeks, we've been hearing from families around the U.S. about what q uality, affordable health coverage means for them, and one thing is clear: It's a lifesaver! Indeed, recent improvements to our nation’s healthcare system have brought the number of uninsured Americans to a record low...
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Parents are speaking out for the Affordable Care Act!

December 21, 2016
Last week, a team of us from MomsRising spread out and met with nearly half of the U.S. Senators' healthcare staff about the importance not unilaterally kicking 30,000,000 people off healthcare coverage. We delivered stories from MomsRising members from across the country and life saver candies to...
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Why the ACA Matters To Me

December 21, 2016
Last week, I was fortunate enough to go to Capitol Hill and share my health care story with legislators and their staffs. As someone who benefits greatly from the Affordable Care Act, also known by Obamacare, it was important for me to let politicians know how repealing the law and not replacing it...
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Wanting to crawl into your cave? Here’s why

December 20, 2016
This Wednesday the 21st marks the winter solstice, the longest night of the year and the first day of winter. The solstice is significant on many levels, but for me, it always signifies an invitation to honor and embrace the time of year when nature calls us to go inward. We live in a culture that...
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When Motherhood Comes Crashing Down

December 19, 2016
I always wanted to become a mother. I dreamed of taking prenatal yoga classes and wearing cute pregnancy t-shirts. I craved waddling around town with my very own pregnancy belly. But for me, and one out of every seven U.S. women, pregnancy and the first year postpartum was anything but rainbows and...
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Don't Put A Limit On My Little Girl's Life

December 16, 2016
My name is Julie Walters, and two years ago I wrote to you as a MomsRising volunteer about my daughter, Violet, who has a rare, life-threatening health condition that causes her to have hundreds of seizures. Before healthcare reform, there was a limit on Violet’s health coverage. Now there’s not...
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Are you focusing on what you want (or DON’T want)?

December 13, 2016
Maya, my client, is wading through some swampy waters with a nonprofit she’s invested a huge amount of time, energy and money in. Active on the board for more than 12 years, she can clearly see all the challenges that the group is facing and it’s easy to come up with a list of all the things that...
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