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Cover the Uninsured Week 2005

Today, 45 million Americans have no health insurance, including more than 8 million children. Eight out of 10 uninsured Americans either work or are in working families. As the price of health care continues to rise, fewer individuals and families can afford to pay for coverage. Fewer small businesses are able to provide coverage for their employees, and those that do are struggling to hold on to the coverage they offer. It is a problem that affects all of us.

Cover the Uninsured Week 2005, May 1-8, will bring together individuals and organizations from all sectors of society to tell our leaders that health coverage for all Americans must be their top priority. Cover the Uninsured Week events, including kick-off events, health and enrollment fairs, seminars for small businesses, campus events and interfaith activities will take place in hundreds of communities nationwide. Events will spotlight the fact that too many of us are living without health coverage.

PATH believes it is important to focus on this issue until everyone in America has health coverage, said Clayton Williams, PATH Executive Director. We are proud to be part of the Cover the Uninsured Week New Orleans coalition and we encourage all of our colleagues to get involved in their communities.

PATH joins a diverse group of national and local organizations in support of this years effort. Cover the Uninsured Week staff can provide assistance to organizations and volunteers organizing activities. Free planning guides and materials will be available online and technical assistance conference calls are being scheduled for anyone planning a health fair or campus activity.

For the past two years, thousands of Americans have participated in Cover the Uninsured Week, speaking out for affordable, reliable, and quality health care coverage for all in America. During Cover the Uninsured Week 2005, business owners, union members, employees, educators, students, health consumers, hospitals, health insurers, physicians, nurses, faith leaders and others, will make it clear that an unacceptable number of Americans are living without health coverage, said Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF.)

For more information on PATH involvement in Cover the Uninsured Week, contact at Erness W. Irvin, New Orleans Field Director, (504) 799-4262. Visit www.CoverTheUninsuredWeek.org for more information and updates on the Week.