SEIU Hospital Workers Prep to Swarm Communities on New Insurance Options

Haves and Have Not’s of New Health Insurance Law Tell Dramatic Stories of Life When

Republicans Giveth or Taketh Away Coverage

As Hospital Employees from FL, Other States Attend Miami

SEIU Training on Reaching Out with Exciting News on Low-Cost Coverage

(MIAMI) – Two women with very different stories about what it means to live with or without health coverage being nearly within their grasp will kick off an SEIU national training for hospital workers here today (Friday, Oct. 4) on reaching out to others on the Affordable Care Act’s popular new low-cost health insurance options.

WHAT: SEIU Healthcare training for more than 200 hospital workers, nurses, doctors – who will go home to talk with patients and others in their communities

WHEN: 11:45 a.m. Today (Friday, Oct. 4)

WHERE: Sheraton Miami Airport, 3900 NW 21s St

SPEAKERS:

Welcome by Monica Russo, Executive Vice President & Florida Regional Director of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East

Remarks by State Senator Oscar Braynon, a champion of health coverage for hardworking, low-income Floridians

Stories of two people who do and don’t qualify for the new healthcare insurance:

a certified nursing assistant who has dedicated a lifetime to the elderly and dying at Miami’s Hebrew Home but can’t afford insurance for her own family;a healthcare worker who inspired an uninsured neighbor to check out the new health insurance marketplaces – and helped her neighbor save hundreds a month soon.

HOSTS: Florida healthcare workers who belong to 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East – Florida

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