FERGUS FALLS, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Communicating for America (CA), a nonprofit advocacy organization, today announced it will finance the cancellation of $2 million in medical debt for rural Minnesotans who are experiencing financial hardship. An estimated 1,800 families will benefit. CA has previously erased more than $8 million in medical debt for over 10,000 Minnesotans between 2022
The CA Foundation (CAF), which provides scholarship and grants to other 501(c) (3) institutions, and sponsors training and internship programs, is pleased to announce its donation to RIP Medical Debt to pay down $2 million in medical debt. The donation allows RIP Medical Debt, a national non-profit that forgives health care debt on behalf of individual donors,
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The Communicating for America 2020 annual membership meeting was held Friday, October 9, 2020, in Fergus Falls, Minn. and online virtually. The 2021 annual meeting will be held in March 2021.
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CA has released a white paper entitled, Platform for Rural Economic Justice which expresses the voice of rural Americans who are far too often forgotten by government official when making health policies. The paper proposes solutions for rural health care, broadband access, and economic development concerns. Read the entire white paper now and let CA know your thoughts
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Today CA sent newly appointed HHS Secretary Tom Price a letter urging the department to delay a regulation on short term health insurance that would limit policies to a 90-day duration. The letter, written by Jeff Smedsrud, CEO and chairman of the board, asks Price to delay the regulation from going into effect until at least
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Consumer advocacy group Communicating for America (CA) will speak at the January 12, 2017 Congressional Staff Briefing sponsored by the Council for Affordable Health Coverage (CAHC) to lay out its plans for stabilizing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace once Republicans repeal the 2010 health reform law. CA will call for an immediate creation of
On December 5, Jeff Smedsrud, Chairman and CEO of Communicating for America, took to The Hill in Washington D.C. to meet with legislators about potential changes that will repeal and replace the Obamacare health care law, a campaign promise of President-elect Donald Trump. He presented “Key Health Reforms Changes That Should Happen Right Now” to
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Statement of Communicating for America regarding proposed changes made public on June 10, 2016 to Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance…
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Insurance companies exiting the health care marketplace in 2017 creates lack of competition and price inequality, offering no coverage choices for millions of rural Americans
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Communicating for America joined the Council for Affordable Health Coverage to request prompt consideration of H.R. 2911/S. 1697 from the leaders on the Committee on Ways and Means to examine legislation that would protect small businesses from punitive fines for helping employees with health care costs and restore the ability to provide a flexible and
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