Dear Health Advocates,

Join us TODAY, from 12:00-12:30PM ET for a 30 minute Twitter storm to highlight the importance of equity in health care! Help spread the word on Twitter using #UniteForHealthcare!

Please feel free to use and customize social posts below from our regularly updated Thursday 30 Toolkit. Suggested content for this week includes:

• To address the root causes of systemic racism on people’s health, the federal government must make meaningful investments in broad, multiagency social justice reforms. #healthequity #UniteForHealthCare
• Our health should not depend on who we love or what gender we identify as. #LGBTQ+ ppl in America often face stigma, systemic trauma, and hate that leads to #healthinequalities. Now, & always, we must fight to ensure our #LGBTQ+ friends have true #healthequity. #UniteForHealthCare
• The pandemic has shown us exactly how pervasive racial #healthdisparities are in America. We must stand up for #racialjustice in health. Congress has a historic chance to really address this issue with @SenateBudget’s reconciliation package. #UniteForHealthCare
• Speaking another language shouldn’t mean you can’t get the health care you need. Yet nearly 6/10 Latino/a adults are unable to communicate with their doctors due to language barriers. #MedicalInterpreters are a needed resource that needs to be made available. #UniteForHealthCare
• America is in the throes of a profound crisis: deadly disease, economic downturn & an erosion of families’ financial security. Congress can leverage #Medicaid to combat this crisis by passing a bill to close the #CoverageGap and ensure more people are healthy. #UniteForHealthCare

Make sure to check out more resources on health equity:

• Five Year Bar Fact Sheet: Protecting the Health of our Nations Essential Workers: Congress Must Lift the Five Year Bar on Medicaid and CHIP
• Health Equity Insights Column: California Takes Steps to Move Its Health Care System Toward Health Equity and Social Justice
• COVID-19 Vaccine Analysis: Equity in COVID-19 Vaccines: Emerging Lessons from the Front Lines
• Juneteenth Fact Sheet: Racial Justice and the Social Determinants of Health: Federal Legislative and Administrative Priorities in June 2021

To your health,

Tia Rodriguez
Strategic Partnerships Coordinator