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 As you heard leading up to Election Day, a band-aid is good for a cut finger or a scraped knee. But it won't fix a leaky pipe and it won't fix the health care crisis.
Pro-health care candidates heard Health Care Voters loud and clear! And across the country they won thanks, in part, to the issue of health care!
Recent polling shows that health care was a top issue in the election.
In our state, we helped to elect Phil Hare in the 17th Congressional District who will work to ensure health care becomes a top priority for Congress.
And, as always, Illinois for Health Care and our 20,000 Health Care Voters will continue to advocate for quality, affordable health care for everyone!
 Before Election Day, we launched both a radio ad and a TV ad about the importance of the health care in the Congressional election. Phil Hare, who ran for and won a seat in the 17th Congressional District, knows that fixing health care isn't going to be easy, but the longer we wait, the worse it's going to get.
In an interview with Congressional Quarterly, he said: "Fundamentally, I believe this: Health care should be a right for all Americans, not a privilege. Every American ought to have access to quality health care, with the physician and the providers that they want." Now that's something we can all get behind.
 Listen to the radio ad
Watch the TV ad
 On August 22, Illinois for Health Care participated in a National Health Care Day of Action to dramatize that we will no longer chalk up the health care crisis to Congress' misplaced priorities and inaction. Our two Chalk It Up! events in both Batavia and Davenport, Iowa were a big success thanks to Health Care Voters!
We heard from speakers about the health care crisis, drew chalk outlines, and asked Congressman Hastert to use his position in Congress to fight for real health care reform by becoming a health care voter and fighting for quality affordable health care for all.
Chalk it up to inaction or misplaced priorities, but now is the time for our leaders to draw a new conclusion about our nation’s health care crisis.
Read our press release
Read our letter to Congressman Hastert (PDF)
Chalk it Up! was a big success thanks to our speakers who came out and told their health care stories.  Sylvia Alvarez told about her family's heartbreaking health care story and her son Diego.
My name is Diego Daniel Alvarez and I’m 14 years old. I have an older sister and younger brother. My dad loves me and my mom adores me. I also have friends and family that care for me. I came from Mexico City seeking an opportunity not for a better life, but simply for life.
I need a double-lung transplant to keep living. I have Cystic Fibrosis, which was diagnosed when I was 4 months old and I don’t have medical insurance. Although I have had this illness all my life, it has gotten progressively worse and has now affected my lungs which are deteriorating and becoming weaker and weaker everyday.
To survive, I need to have a double lung transplant. With no health insurance, that can get very costly. We have a couple of options but they are both expensive and far away.
Continue reading Diego's full story.
You can make a donation to help Diego and his family get the medical care he so desperately needs. Visit www.diegofund.org today.
At Illinois for Health Care,
we're doing something about it.
Illinois for Health Care is working to win common-sense solutions that increase access to reliable, affordable health care coverage for ALL.
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