Health Care for America NOW, a national grassroots campaign of over 850 organizations dedicated to winning quality, affordable health care coverage for all, hosted events with thousands of citizens across the country during the recent Congressional recess period. More than 7,000 people participated in these events that gave Americans the opportunity to express to Congress their concerns with the current health care system and the fact that health care can’t wait. Check out this article in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, reporting on a town hall event in Ohio:

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown stumped for national health care reform at a Cleveland Heights church Friday morning. . . .

“We together are going to see this Congress pass national health care reform by the end of the year,” the Ohio Democrat told the crowd of about 500 community organizers and activists that packed the sanctuary of Forest Hills Presbyterian Church. Read the article.

Before leaving for the April recess, both houses of Congress passed a budget that provides funding for the health care reform that we need. However, we need to make sure that when they return, Congress passes the budget through the conference committee and does not allow a few Senators to block the majority. This process is called reconciliation and it seems the Senate may be considering the use of reconciliation, as the House recommended, to pass health care reform in the budget process. Check out this article from The Hill for the latest news on health care reform debate in the Senate:

Democrats appear to have the votes for a budget measure that would allow reform of the nation’s health care system with just 51 Senate votes….Read the article.