The Patient's Voice Joins Americans for Health Care
National Reform and “Bridging the Gap” Walk

June 15, 2004

In an effort to educate voters regarding the escalating problems associated with receding access to medical coverage in America today — a crisis growing with unfathomable personal and economic injury to individuals and families nationwide — Ellen Golombeck, National Director of Americans for Healthcare joins host, Rosemary Roberts and The Patient's Voice Online Radio Show to provide resources that include:

Site Information on the national “ Bridging the Gap ” walk spanning bridges coast-to-coast for healthcare reform (125 events in 42 states), Saturday June 19, 2004 (including the Tower Bridge—Sacramento, Berkley Bike Bridge and The Golden Gate—San Francisco)

• How to register as a Healthcare Voter and make your voice heard
• How to determine the specific issues relating to policy within individual (home) states
• Details outlining the specific healthcare plans of President Bush and Democratic Candidate, John Kerry

Available online 24/7, listeners can become quickly enlightened to the enormity of this crisis, learning among other things:

• Eight out of every ten Americans without heath coverage is a member of the “working class”, with at least one full-time working family member.
• Every sixty seconds, five more Americans lose their health coverage
• Forty-five percent of all bankruptcies are a result of medical debt

The interview with Golombek can be heard at: http://www.thepatientsvoice.com/shows/currentshow.htm