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We Need Health Care Reform and We Need it Now
This week could be the make or break week on securing federal health care reform legislation. Easter Seals needs you to tell Congress that we need them to act now on health insurance legislation! 

Too many people with disabilities are forced to make major life decisions based on whether their insurance meets their individual needs. Parents of a child with autism take out a second mortgage to pay for therapy that helps their child learn and manage his behavior. A young couple decides they cannot get married because one of them has Medicaid coverage which will be lost when their individual incomes become joint incomes and they cannot access private insurance.