Stand With Planned Parenthood in Support of Health Care Reform

Planned Parenthood believes that all Americans should be guaranteed access to quality, affordable health care.

Planned Parenthood believes that all of us benefit from healthy communities and healthy families, in which every person has access to high-quality, affordable, and confidential health care from a provider of choice. We support a health care system that prioritizes prevention, and ensures that all individuals have the information and services they need to stay safe and healthy.

As an essential health care provider, Planned Parenthood health centers serve as a critical entry point into the health care system for millions of women, men and teens who rely on our health centers for basic health care. Today more than 7 in 10 patients who access care through a women’s health center consider it their primary source of health care.

For more than 90 years, Planned Parenthood has been a health care provider helping women and their families “plan” for happy, healthy and productive futures.  Help us work with the Administration, Congress and our state elected officials to make women’s health – and the health of their families – a priority.  The demand for health care is urgent and the value of prevention, a cornerstone of Planned Parenthood services, is self-evident. Please sign this petition to stand with us.

Sample Letter for Campaign

Subject: I Support Health Care Reform

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

I believe that all Americans should be guaranteed access to quality, affordable health care.

I believe that all of us benefit from healthy communities and healthy families, in which every person has access to high-quality, affordable, and confidential health care from a provider of choice.

I support a health care system that prioritizes prevention, and ensures that all individuals have the information and services they need to stay safe and healthy.

Approximately 17 million American women and 1.7 Florida women have no health insurance coverage. I believe that increasing health insurance coverage for women is essential and expanding access to women's health centers, like Planned Parenthood, must go hand-in-hand with increasing health insurance coverage.

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Campaign Launched:
June 01, 2009



Background Information

There is no doubt that the United States is facing a health care crisis of historic proportions. Nearly 46 million Americans and 4 million Floridians are uninsured and an additional 25 million Americans have insurance but lack sufficient access to services. Ensuring access to health care is a long process, and Planned Parenthood will not rest until we come to a solution.

A new Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Report spotlights the impact that the nation’s health care crisis is having on women. Click here to learn more.