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Live Coverage of Today’s Health Care Reform Rally |
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Seth Michaels is posting live from the massive health care reform rally and lobby day.
Today in Upper Senate Park on Capitol Hill, thousands of union members, community activists and health care advocates are coming together to demand quality health care for everyone.
To find out more about why America needs health care reform now, read the results of the 2009 Health Care for America Survey.
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The national AFL-CIO and those national unions that determine policy has messed up huge. Your refusal to support Medical for All, or even to spell out and support a strong “public option” may have a real chance for fixing health care. This despite the fact that the great majority of our members, state and local federations and local unions - as well as 72% of the general population! - support a federally-run, Medicare-like health care plan. Whether out of some wronng-headed notion that we cannot go beyond whatever the President is offeringm or a fear that we will lose our precious parochial union plans, or because we too have been influenced by the drug and health care corporations, we may have missed the near-perfect alignment of forces that could have brought the US finally up to the level of the rest of the industrialized nations. Shame on you! For your information, I am not some lone “dissident”. I am on the North Shore E. Board, as well as on the Boards of the local Musicians union, the Retire Council and the Senior Voice coalition.