Building a movement for single payer healthcare

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/5405

Building a movement for single payer healthcare

Lede: Labor’s national health care advocates are building a growing movement for true single payer universal coverage. Doug Cunningham reports.

By Doug Cunningham

Kay Tillow and the All Unions Committee For Single Payer Health Care are working hard to mobilize support for universal, single payer health care that covers all of us for all medically necessary treatment. There’s a bill in Congress right now – HR 676 from Rep. John Conyers - that will create universal national health care in the U.S.

: “Basically what it does is save us the money that is now going to the administrative waste and the profits of the private insurance industry. And by removing that from the system we will save something over $300 billion a year and we can put that into health care – to make better care for all of us and to also expand the care to the currently uninsured.”

Single payer universal health care advocates will try o get the AFL-CIO Executive Council, meeting in Las Vegas this week, to endorse the bill.
With 47 million uninsured and costs so high that businesses and middle class families can’t afford it, Tillow says it’s clear our current health care system isn’t working and needs to be replaced.

: “It gets worse daily and it cannot be solved in any other way. There is no incremental fix that can do it.”


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[annabanana]

1. Combine this with stopping the drain that is Iraq

and we could even save our Grandchildren from penury.

[papau]

2. This must be the party's number one issue in 08 - for the grandkids sake - Iraq will be

ended one way or another around that time - but health must be fixed via single payer nat'l health for all very soon also.