Healthcare United was featured in an article published yesterday by the Shepherd Express of Milwaukee.  The piece covers our efforts to mark Juneteenth through our new voter registration drive.

An excerpt:

Juneteenth 2008 celebrated, as it always does, the day in 1865 on which slaves in Texas learned that they had been emancipated. But this year's Juneteenth celebration also was a day of action for Milwaukee's African-American residents and health care professionals who want the next president and elected officials to address the wide racial disparities in health care.

Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Healthcare United and their allies were at the Juneteenth gathering on June 19, where they registered voters and urged Milwaukeeans to make health care an important electoral issue. "We have to actively engage in the political process," said Clarene Anderson of the Black Health Coalition of Wisconsin. "We have to force the change that needs to occur."

Before the event, national SEIU representatives stopped in Milwaukee as part of a national "Road to Health Care" bus tour aimed at drawing attention to how members of racial and ethnic minorities are disproportionately disadvantaged by America's broken health care system.

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