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Currently 44 million Americans do not have health care coverage. Millions more Americans are under-insured causing bankruptcy and tearing families apart when struck with a life threatening illness. Every other industrialized nation in the world provide a basic standard of universal care for their citizens. DFA members are working make sure America’s sick are no longer left behind.

DFA members have taken this fight local. From the California legislature to the Governor of Massachusetts, we’ve been on the ground lobbying local leaders to fix our broken system. We have expanded awareness through movie education nights and fun hose party screenings of documentary films like SiCKO.

This year DFA members supported the expansion of the State Children Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) to cover more than 10 million American kids. We wrote letters, made calls and meet directly with elected members of both parties and together we passed a strong bill out of Congress. When President Bush vetoed the bill, we worked in coalition with our partners in the Service employees International Union and others to flip enough hold out Republicans to overturn the President’s veto.

DFA members continue to work towards a future that allows all Americans to get the health coverage and protection they need. And we will work to elect a Democratic President in 2008, because progressive leaders understand that economic security, health security and national security are the three basis of strength that makes the American Dream possible for everyday Americans.