Secular Jewish Circle Social Action Committee http://www.secularjewishcircle.org/socialaction Latest news for SJC's Social Action Committee Sun, 23 May 2010 00:59:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Call on Congress to Reject Rate Hikes http://www.secularjewishcircle.org/socialaction/2010/05/23/call-on-congress-to-reject-rate-hikes/ http://www.secularjewishcircle.org/socialaction/2010/05/23/call-on-congress-to-reject-rate-hikes/#comments Sun, 23 May 2010 00:59:43 +0000 Social Action Committee Chair http://www.secularjewishcircle.org/socialaction/?p=9 Today, Health Care for America Now released a report1 on insurance company profits and the results are stunning.  In the first quarter of 2010 the profits of the five biggest insurers increased at record levels while they covered less people and spent less on care.  That’s why we need to give the federal and state governments more power to reject and modify rate hikes.  Health Care champions Senator Dianne Feinstein of California and Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-9) have introduced legislation2 that will build upon the landmark health care law that was passed in March and give the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the authority to end unjust premium increasess.

The Insurance Company’s recent behavior has shown they will do and say anything to keep their bloated CEO pay and inflated profits by denying our care and jacking up our rates.   We need to give regulators the power and resources to check the insurance companies and stop business as usual.

Click here to call your Member of Congress and tell them you support this legislation that would make health care more affordable for businesses and families and tell them you support giving regulators more authority to bring the insurance companies under control and stop outrageous rate increases.

http://tools.advomatic.com/8/ratereg

In Solidarity,

Melinda Gibson

Health Care for America Now

]]> http://www.secularjewishcircle.org/socialaction/2010/05/23/call-on-congress-to-reject-rate-hikes/feed/ 0 Information from AU Seattle to help parents confront proselytizing in schools http://www.secularjewishcircle.org/socialaction/2010/05/23/information-from-au-seattle-to-help-parents-confront-proselytizing-in-schools/ http://www.secularjewishcircle.org/socialaction/2010/05/23/information-from-au-seattle-to-help-parents-confront-proselytizing-in-schools/#comments Sun, 23 May 2010 00:42:47 +0000 Social Action Committee Chair http://www.secularjewishcircle.org/socialaction/?p=8 The local chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State has posted information on their website to assist parents in addressing concerns about proseltyzing by the Child Evangelism Fellowship and the Good News Club in Seattle area schools.  This is recommended reading for all SJC parents and anyone else in SJC who would like to get involved in taking action on this issue.  Here’s the link for more information:

http://www.augreate rseattle. org/GNC/index. html

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