At Roundtables, Union Members Call for Health Care Reform

by Seth Michaels, Dec 3, 2009

UA member Rosie Britz is mobilizing in support of real health care reform.

Rosie Britz, a member of the Plumbers and Pipe Fitters (UA), is just one of thousands of union volunteers who have put time and effort into the fight for health care reform. Britz says health care reform is critical for the uninsured—as well as ensuring people like her, who have insurance, have more security:

“This health care bill will be a safety net for all of us construction workers. It’s got to get done. We cannot sit on our hands and hope someone else will do it.”

Britz was one of the union members who attended a roundtable discussion Tuesday in Mosinee, Wis., one of several roundtables around the country this week to get the word out about the need for health care reform. Union members, community allies and small business owners also came together for health care roundtables in South Bend and other Indiana cities.

You can be a part of the effort. Contact your senators and ask for real health care reform.

Here’s more news from the fight for health care reform:

• Yet another poll—this one from Reuters—shows 60 percent of the public want health care reform to include a public health insurance option, including 57 percent of Independents.
• It’s looking like it might be a long process in the Senate to debate health care reform. One health care opponent, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), circulated a letter to his colleagues encouraging them to use procedural tools like unrelated amendments, “points of order” made “with or without cause” and demands for multiple opportunities to filibuster to keep a bill from getting passed.
• Surprise! Aetna is dropping customers and boosting profits.
• Kaiser Health News looks at some provisions in the fine print of the Senate bill.

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