Advocating for Change

Universal health care

Health care is a right, not a privilege, and access to health care should be universal, for all people over their lifetimes. All of us should have the ability to get the health care we need, when we need it, and at a price that’s affordable and sustainable.

Today, 47 million people in America have no health insurance. Millions more have to shoulder a greater and greater share of their health care costs as employers raise co-pays and reduce or eliminate benefits. A sudden catastrophic illness can push a middle class family toward bankruptcy by piling medical debts high. Lower income families are dropped from essential public health programs because of arbitrary rules, budget shortfalls, and politics.

We support the current momentum towards health care reform, specifically the spirit and commitment to progress that has been demonstrated by the legislation recently passed in Washington. But there is so much left undone.

We must keep working towards a truly equitable national health system, and all of us must continue to work together – to cover everybody.

Intactamerica.org

In 2008, the not-for-profit Intact America was formed, and Georganne Chapin was named as its executive director. The most recent expression of a nationwide movement, Intact America works to protect babies and children from circumcision and all other forms of medically unnecessary genital alteration, whether carried out for cultural conformity or profit, in medical or non-medical settings.

Intact America envisions a world where children are protected from permanent bodily alteration inflicted on them without their consent. We seek to achieve our goals through education, advocacy, public policy reform, and the empowerment of our supporters, partners, and volunteers.

For more thoughts and perspective on how the Hudson Center advocates for change, please visit our CEO Corner with Georganne Chapin.