from OurFuture.org:
Now Is The Time for Health Care For America Now!By Roger Hickey
July 7th, 2008 - 10:38am ET
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On Tuesday, July 8, a new campaign will be launched – for Health Care for America Now! – at press conferences in Washington and 55 other cities and towns. We at the Campaign for America’s Future are proud to play a leadership role in launching this much-needed campaign, led by 100 national and local organizations.
The steering committee includes ACORN, AFSCME, Americans United for Change, Campaign for America’s Future, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Center for Community Change, MoveOn, NEA, National Women’s Law Center, Planned Parenthood, SEIU, UFCW, and USAction – not a bad core group to make history with. And now is the time!
Profound economic changes are convincing the public that we need to take action together to build a healthy, sustainable economy and ensure real security for all families. And that includes, first and foremost, making sure everyone has quality, affordable health care.
The mission of the Campaign for America’s Future is to develop and promote bold policy ideas that can build a majority for change. We brought together environmentalists and union activists to promote an “Apollo project” investment agenda to make America energy independent – and to create the next generation of good American jobs. We sounded the alarm about conservative plans to privatize Social Security, and – working with a coalition similar to HCAN – we helped to defeat those dangerous plans to undermine retirement security.
So it was only natural that over the last two years, we have been encouraging health care experts to think big, to come forward with plans to cover everyone who doesn’t have good health care coverage, while reining in spiraling costs by reorganizing the most inefficient aspects of what is today a very fragmented, wasteful and unstable health care system. ......(more)
The complete piece is at:
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/time-health-care-america-now