PELOSI -- Penn. Delegation to Tour Hospital, Highlight Health Insurance Reform

Below is a media advisory for a tour and news conference in Philadelphia at 11:15 a.m. on Monday, September 21 to highlight the need for health insurance reform. The Speaker will be joined by Representatives Bob Brady, Chaka Fattah, and Allyson Schwartz along with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital officials and doctors.

-- Brendan Daly

Contact: Drew Hammill (Pelosi), 202-226-7616

Karen Warrington (Brady), 215-389-4627 or 215-240-0488

Ron Goldwyn (Fattah), 215-913-0972

Rachel Magnuson (Schwartz), 202-679-1779 (cell)

Friday, September 18, 2009

ADVISORY FOR MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

Speaker Pelosi and Philadelphia Members of Congress

Visit Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

to Push for National Health Insurance Reform

Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be in Philadelphia on Monday September 21 at 11:15 a.m. for a hospital tour and news conference to highlight the urgent need for Congress to pass legislation containing healthcare costs and expanding access to affordable, quality, stable coverage for all Americans.

She will be joined by Philadelphia Reps. Bob Brady, Chaka Fattah, and Allyson Schwartz along with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital officials and doctors and a local small business owner who will share her personal story of the difficulties obtaining affordable health coverage for a son with a pre-existing condition. An Emergency Room doctor will highlight how the cost of treating America's 46 million uninsured and millions more under-insured is like a hidden tax of more than $1,000 on the average American family.

WHO: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Philadelphia Congress Members Brady, Fattah, and Schwartz

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital officials and doctors

Small business owner/local mother impacted by the high cost of health coverage

and an insurance industry which discriminates against the sick

WHERE: Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience

900 Walnut Street

Philadelphia

WHEN: Monday, September 21, 2009 at 11:15 a.m.

Pre-set: 10:15 a.m.

B-Roll prior to brief walking tour 11:15 a.m.

Press availability: 11:40 a.m. to Noon

Media members: Meet in the lobby of Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience by 10:15 a.m. for escort to briefing room.