A national coalition of liberal faith groups is pushing for “affordable health care for all families” through a radio ad campaign this week in Colorado and four other states.
In Denver, the interfaith Metro Organizations for People has teamed with the Rev. Bill Calhoun of Montview Presbyterian Church to create radio ads.
Calhoun is the voice in the Colorado radio ad, which, like the others, “remind lawmakers that the status quo on health care is not who we are as a nation” and that America can do better.
“It is a sin that a nation as rich and great and compassionate as ours tolerates a health care system that leaves so many sick people without the care they need, and so many parents unable to raise healthy children,” Calhoun said in a statement.
The ad campaign began Tuesday and will run through Saturday in Colorado, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska and North Carolina. Ads urge senators from these states to support reform that makes quality coverage affordable for every American family.
The lobbying effort involves the Oakland, Calif.-based PICO National Network, Chicago-based Gamaliel Foundation, and the Washington D.C.-based groups Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, Faithful America, Sojourners and Faith in Public Life.
The groups say that more than 600 clergy from 39 denominations in 41 states have committed to engage with their congregations in the national debate on health care.
Thursday night, Metro Organizations for People held a health care reform forum that featured U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., who says his office hears regularly from Coloradans worried about choice of coverage, lower costs and access to affordable, quality coverage for families.
“Most importantly,” his spokeswoman, Deirdre Murphy, said, “they want it done in a fiscally responsible way.”
Electa Draper: 303-954-1276 or edraper@denverpost.com
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