Together Frankfort, along with Indivisible Bluegrass, Our Revolution Central Kentucky, and Together We Will Bluegrass, encourage citizens from across the state to join us at 1 p.m., Monday, June 26, in the Kentucky State Capitol Rotunda, Frankfort. Listen, learn, but foremost, take action to stop the national healthcare proposal.
Kentucky citizens deserve our opportunity to study the proposal before the Senate votes on this bill, say oorganizers.
As the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy reported this week:
No state has more to lose from this bill than Kentucky because no state has achieved more in the last few years thanks to the Affordable Care Act. The bill would reduce Kentuckians’ health, harm the state’s most vulnerable and set us further back on fighting Kentucky’s opioid crisis. It will result in less coverage at higher cost, especially for poorer, older and sicker people. It will also lead to substantial job loss at hospitals and doctors’ offices and weaken Kentucky’s rural economies in particular.*
Speakers include:
· Rep. Tom Burch, Representative, House District 30, part of Jefferson County
· Coleman Eldridge, VP of Global Development &Membership, International Coach Federation, Former executive assistant to Gov. Steve Beshear
· Senator Julian M. Carroll, Kentucky Senate Minority Whip
· Dustin Pugel, Research and Policy Associate for Healthcare, Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
· Robin Rider-Osborne, Chair, Kentucky Protection & Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Advisory Council & Kentucky Faces of Medicaid
· Greg Welch, Graduate Student, Southern New Hampshire University, Representing Together We Will Bluegrass
· Featured Presenter: Kay Tillow, Director, Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare
For more information about Together Frankfort or the Rally, contact Barbara Smith at 502-545-0750 or email belhs43@gmail.com.