AFL-CIO Launches Campaign for America’s Health Care

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/08/29/afl-cio-launches-campaign-for-americas-health-care/

by Mike Hall, Aug 29, 2007

It’s a simple proposition and poll after poll shows most people agree that:

In America, No One Should Go Without Health Care.

Today, as new figures from the federal government show there are 2.2 million more Americans, including children without health care coverage—a record 47 million with no coverage—the AFL-CIO launched a mobilization drive to fix our broken health care system.


Mary Florio

Speaking at a press conference in Washington, D.C., today to describe the new campaign, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says the effort will:

…put the full-force of the 10 million union members and three million union retirees behind winning high quality, secure health care for every person in America by 2009.

Nobody should have to live in fear of an accident or illness or an unexpected medical bill. Nobody should have to go deep into debt or declare bankruptcy to pay for a life-saving operation—especially while drug and insurance company CEOs are pocketing tens of millions of dollars a year. No company should have to shut its doors because it can’t compete with businesses who shirk health care obligations, or businesses in other countries that have public health care systems overseas.

FULL story at link.