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Women’s Chamber of Commerce Endorses Public Health Plan Option |
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One the largest groups of women business leaders in the nation called this week for comprehensive health care reform that includes a “a robust” public health plan option.
In a report to Congress, the U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce, with more than 500,000 members, writes:
Americans should also have the choice of a robust government lead a public plan to take on the insurance carriers, provide vigorous competition, and assure all Americans have access to affordable health care.
A public insurance plan option for workers and families who either have private insurance coverage or no coverage at all is one of the AFL-CIO’s key health care reform principles. It is vehemently opposed by most business groups, the private insurance industry and Republican lawmakers.
In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the group writes:
For more than a decade the American health care system has been careening towards a complete collapse reducing our quality of life, suppressing business growth and international competitiveness, and threatening our country’s security. Over the last weeks, months, and years, our members have told us of the fears, frustrations, and financial hardships they have experienced as a result of our failed health care system.
Very few modern day economic issues more directly impact both economic advancement and quality of life for American women than health care reform.
The report, “Health Care Reform: An American Values Imperative,” also calls for guaranteed access to affordable health insurance coverage, bringing an end to age and wellness discrimination, greater transparency and accountability, choice, flexibility and portability of health insurance.
Click here to read the full report.
The U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce is not connected to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce opposes a public plan option.
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The sad part of the blogspot, is that it was littered with health insurance ads.
The Chamber of Commerce is on the FRONT LINES to spread and create propaganda to kill, not the public option, THE DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS ALREADY KILLED IT, but ANY healthcare reform WHAT SO EVER.
We need a national health plan that will cover all people in this country just as Britian, France, Germany, Canada and dozens of other industrilized countries do. Germany has had a national health plan for over 120 years and this country still has the insurance companies, hospitals, pharmacy houses and every other health care hustler in control of our health.
The United States, under President John Adams, passed a law in 1798 authorizing the Merchant Marine Hospitals that were built and paid for by the merchant seamen. These hospitals provided health care for all U.S. merchant seaman at work on inland and deep sea waters. They functioned as such until the early 1900’s when they became the Public Health Service and now provided care for postal workers, Coast Guard members, foreign service workers and anyone needing an innoculation while traveling abroad. Upon his inaguration the first thing Ronald Reagan did, besides busting the PATCO union, was to close the Public Health Hospitals. Does that tell you anything?
The U.S. has public health care for all the military, for all veterans and Native Americans but not for the rest us. For the trade union movement to continue to foster the present shame is a disgrace to labor and will require new and revolutionary leadership to change.