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Amy Martin is a double winner in the Public Option Please (POP) art contest launched earlier this fall to cut through the rhetoric inside the Washington Beltway and provide a vehicle for artists to make the moral case for a public health insurance option as a part of health care reform.
Martin’s artwork received the highest number of votes by visitors to the POP website for the Public Choice award from among six finalists. The finalists (click here to see all) were selected by a panel of judges, including AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker.
The judges also selected Martin’s piece as the first place winner. The winning artwork will be featured on posters, T-shirts and stickers. Martin will receive $1,750 for winning the two top prizes.
Other winners selected by the judges include:
- Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, who won the second-place prize of $750.
- Michael Cuffee, who takes the third-place prize of $500.
POP is a non-profit, grassroots organization committed to achieving affordable health care for all Americans.
The POP campaign is working with musicians, actors, artists and social justice advocates to engage the public in a way that makes the public option part of a larger, longer civil rights battle for universal health care. Click here for more information.
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This “contest” to somehow promote the “sugar coating” of Obama’s fundamentally toxic “health care reform” is an especially cynical effort from the AFL-CIO “leadership”.
The “public option”, even if it is available, will be so incredibly
limited (only 2 percent will be eligible?), will not be allowed to “compete” with the massive corporate profiteering that will become institutionalized in the bribed and sold-out Democrats “health care reform”.
The AFL-CIO delegates at the September Pittsburgh convention voted unanimously for SINGLE-PAYER MEDICARE FOR ALL universal health care. This legislation, to minimize costs to the nation, would completely EXCLUDE CORPORATE PROFIT.
Most other national health plans of Europe, Canada, etc. cost about one-half or less, and cover every human resident in their countries. NOT SO WITH OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE REFORM.
This refusal of the AFL-CIO leadership to support the wishes and needs of it’s membership has reveal once again this historic crisis of the organized labor movement:
The AFL-CIO “leadership” supports corporate greed over universal affordable health care needs of working people
This detailed article By Kate Randall from WSWS gives further evidence why the “health care reform”, promoted by Obama and AFL-CIO President Trumka must be opposed!
US Senate begins debate on health care overhaul
By Kate Randall
2 December 2009
The US Senate began debate Monday on a health care bill that would cut hundreds of billions of dollars from federal programs, while leaving an estimated 25 million without insurance coverage. The “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” which reconciles versions from two Senate committees, is being actively promoted by the Obama administration, chiefly for its cost-cutting components.
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The bill would ax about $440 billion from Medicare, reducing payments to hospitals, hospices, home health and other providers. These proposed cuts have allowed Republicans to posture as defenders of Medicare, the federal program that provides health care to those over 65. In the debate Monday, Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona grandstanded by proposing to strike these cuts from the bill, a move that would render it unacceptable to the White House as it would raise the deficit by about half the cost of the legislation.
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The “Cadillac” tax and other components of the bill that reduce costs for corporations and the government, while slashing care for working families, expose the legislation being debated in Congress as a means of at implementing a class-based system of rationed care. The wealthy will still be able to pay out of pocket for advanced technologies, and superior care and the profits of the giant insurers and pharmaceuticals will remain unchallenged.
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[READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE:]
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/dec2009/heal-d02.shtml