Protect ACA/ Reproductive Rights
Dallas, TX – Este sábado, 1º de marzo, el Congresista Marc Veasey, TX-33 participará con LULAC, Asegúrate (Get Covered America) y Planned Parenthood, en un evento bilingüe para crear conciencia, orientar y motivar a las personas sin seguro a obtener seguro médico para ellos y sus familias bajo la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA por sus siglas en inglés).
Dallas, TX – On Saturday, March 1st, Congressman Marc Veasey, TX-33, will join LULAC, Get Covered America, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America in a bilingual community event to help Latinos learn and enroll in quality health care plans available under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, as the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) kicked off "Latino Week of Action," Congressman Marc Veasey, TX-33, addressed participants at LULAC's 17th Annual Legislative Conference to share the benefits of the Affordable Care Act and encourage a continued effort to help underinsured communities enroll by the March 31st deadline.
Resource Center and Fairness Fort Worth reached out to Rep. Marc Veasey and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson to add LGBT-specific protections to Medicaid's Home and Community-Based Services programs for seniors. Veasey represents U.S. District House 33, and Johnson represents U.S. District House 30.
Last Friday in Dallas' Oak Lawn neighborhood, a former college football player, a global expert on walkable cities, a 57-year-old Ethiopian immigrant and a U.S. congressman gathered outside a Chinese restaurant. Facing a row of TV cameras and reporters, they took turns praising the new health insurance options available since Obamacare took effect, and urging their uninsured neighbors to enroll in a plan by March 31—the deadline to get health insurance before facing a tax penalty.
According to the latest data from HHS, 207,546 Texans are newly enrolled in health insurance. That's more people who have enrolled than any other state except Florida.
Dallas, TX – With the March 31 deadline to sign up for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) fast approaching, Congressman Marc Veasey is joining OFA-TX and community organizers for a press conference featuring ACA success stories of Dallas-area residents. The press conference will be followed by a neighborhood canvass as OFA volunteers ramp up efforts to ensure that every uninsured Texan has access to quality, affordable health insurance.
WHO:
Yesterday, House Democrats joined by Americans from communities nationwide heard President Obama lay out his vision to help create jobs, strengthen the middle class, and grow our economy. Members’ invited guests that have been impacted by a wide array of issues that are expected to be addressed in the State of the Union, including health care.
WASHINGTON It has been a long and difficult road for Jason Roberts, a former Democratic candidate for Texas’ 33rd Congressional District who found himself in Washington on Tuesday in a very different role: cancer survivor and champion of the Affordable Care Act.
Roberts, 39, of Oak Cliff, was selected to be the high-profile guest of the candidate who ultimately won the 2012 election, Democratic Rep. Marc Veasey, at President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address.