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Join Today?s Virtual March on Congress for Health Care Now

By Mike Hall

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Today you can join in a million-person march for health care in Washington, D.C., without traipsing through our leftover snow banks. Our friends at MoveOn, Health Care for America Now! (HCAN) and other groups are staging a virtual march on the nation’s capital to tell Congress it’s time to stop stalling and pass real health care reform.

The virtual march coincides with a real life Capitol Hill rally and the arrival in Washington?after an eight-day, 135-mile march from Philadelphia?of a group of health care activists honoring the memory of Melanie Shouse. The St. Louis, Mo., health care activist recently lost her battle with breast cancer after her insurance company refused to pay for treatment her doctors said she needed. She was 41 years old.

The virtual and real rallies?the day before the televised White House health care summit?are designed to tell lawmakers they have had plenty of time to discuss and debate health care reform over the past year, and now it’s their job to make it happen.

Click here to join the virtual march and here, here and here for reports, photos and videos from Melanie’s March.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on February 24, 2010 (boomark / email).