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It may be the largest rolling “Report Card” most of us will ever see—and it’s the centerpiece of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee’s (CNA/NNOC’s) bus now traveling through election battleground states.
The “Rolling Road Show for Health Care” bus is wrapped in “Health Care Report Cards” for Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain and is on the road now until Election Day in Pennsylvania, Ohio and other battleground states. The tour kicked off earlier this month in Nevada.
The report cards grade Obama and McCain on health care issues, including costs, coverage, nurse-to-patient ratios and more. Overall, Obama earns a B+ from the nurses for a plan that provides affordable quality health care. McCain’s health care plan is marked F for failing.
Local nurses, health care advocates and health care activist Donna Smith, who is featured in Michael Moore’s health care documentary “Sicko,” are taking part in meetings, rallies and roundtables throughout the tour.
Smith is blogging the tour on Guaranteedhealthcare.org. From Willoughby, Ohio, she writes:
The RNs of this nation will begin and end this campaign season with the same message. Everyone deserves health care as a basic human right. And the RNs have taken to the roadways again in the remaining battleground states to educate every patient—every voter—about what is at stake.
So, here they are—the nurses of Ohio—riding in a bus again and spreading the word about health care for all. They’ve already touched thousands of lives today as they made their way from Cleveland to Willoughby and on to Akron.
For more from Smith and others on the battleground bus tour, click here. You also can find video from the tour—including a rally with Michelle Obama—on YouTube here and photographs here and here.
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Please remember all the Nurses that would love to be unionized that are not because they would lose their job if the union word was used in the workplace.
Right to Work means right to be fired if you support your fellow employees. Another example of how McCains’ campaign has redefined most of the English language in their name calling campaign.
What this piece fails to mention is that CNA/NNOC is 100% in support of single payer health care. That is why Obama gets a B+, because his plan offers much of the same, insurance company PROFIT OVER PATIENTS. Obama has not said how he plans to get the insurance companies to “lower” their premium prices, and the Big Pharma’s medication prices.
HR 676 would institute a single payer health care system in the U.S. by expanding a greatly improved Medicare system to every resident.
HR 676 would cover every person in the U. S. for all necessary medical care including prescription drugs, hospital, surgical, outpatient services, primary and preventive care, emergency services, dental, mental health, home health, physical therapy, rehabilitation (including for substance abuse), vision care, chiropractic and long term care.
HR 676 ends deductibles and co-payments. HR 676 would save billions annually by eliminating the high overhead and profits of the private health insurance industry and HMOs.
HR 676 currently has 93 co-sponsors in addition to Conyers. Co-sponsors and bill text are here:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.00676:
HR 676 has been endorsed by 470 union organizations in 49 states including 116 Central Labor Councils and Area Labor Federations and 39 state AFL-CIO’s (KY, PA, CT, OH, DE, ND, WA, SC, WY, VT, FL, WI, WV, SD, NC, MO, MN, ME, AR, MD-DC, TX, IA, AZ, TN, OR, GA, OK, KS, CO, IN, AL, CA, AK, MI, MT, NE, NY, NV & MA).
International/national unions that have endorsed HR 676 are USW, UAW, NEA,ILWU, NALC, IAM, UA (Plumbers & Pipefitters), AFM (Musicians), UE, CNA/NNOC, SMWIA, IFPTE, OPEIU, UTU, SEIU, AFT, AFSCME, CSEA (California School Employees Association), UWUA, & CWA.