Contact: Gary Zuckett
Executive Director
www.wvcag.org
304-346-5891

CITIZEN ACTION TO CONGRESS ‘LET’S GET IT DONE!’
 Without a public option that will hold insurance companies accountable-
There is no meaningful health care reform 

Charleston, WV – Responding to President Obama’s address to Congress Wednesday evening, Gary Zuckett, executive director of WV Citizen Action Group called on Congress to represent the interests of the American people – not the insurance companies – and pass quality, affordable health care reform with a public health insurance option.

“We support the President in his call for genuine health care reform and that means fixing the real health care challenges that the American people face,” Zuckett said, “Both Senators Rockefeller & Byrd support meaningful reform and the majority of our Representatives are on board and we thank them for their support. The President’s speech has set the bar and Congress must now act with due diligence for a reform that meets his sensible goals.”

Zuckett added that affordability must be the cornerstone of health care reform – and to make health care affordable, insurance companies must be held accountable. “Without a public health insurance option, the health insurance companies win and the American people lose,” he said.

Zuckett said the public health insurance option will lower costs and stop insurance industry abuses. “We have an historic opportunity to pass comprehensive reform that gives people a choice of a public health insurance plan as a guaranteed option with good benefits at a price that they can afford, so that never again in America will anyone have to worry about getting the care they deserve when they need it,” Zuckett said.

WV Citizen Action Group (WV-CAG) is an affiliate of USAction. USAction and WV-CAG are members of Health Care for America Now (HCAN), the nation’s largest public health care campaign. For more information see www.healthcareforamericanow.org