> IAM Local Writes President Obama, Urges Support of HR 676
>
> Burlingame, California. The President and Vice President of IAMAW
> Air
> Transport Employees Local Lodge 1781 have written President Obama on
> behalf of their members urging him to give "serious attention" to HR
> 676,
> single payer healthcare legislation introduced by Congressman John
> Conyers
> (D-MI).
>
> In their letter to President Obama, Larry Wing and Troy Rivera,
> President
> and Vice President of Local 1781 said: "More and more health cost
> premiums and deductibles have been shifted to our active and retired
> members during the last several national negotiations with
> airlines. It
> is a dangerous trend which begs for a national solution."
>
> "We continually hear member complaints about the roles of our private
> insurers who are supposed to protect us in time of need. In this,
> we are
> not unlike millions of other Americans who share our grief," the
> letter
> continued.
>
> "We fully support our great International Union, IAMAW, its
> President Tom
> Buffenbarger, and the hundreds of other Labor Unions who have endorsed
> Rep. John Conyers' HR-676. It is our view that HR-676 would provide
> affordable universal health care for many of our seniors," the letter
> concluded.
>
> Air Transport Employees Local Lodge 1781 is one of the ten largest
> locals
> in the IAM. Based near San Francisco, it represents ground personnel
> at
> United, Northwest, US Airways, British Airways, Philippine Airlines
> and
> Alaska Airlines. #30#
>
> HR 676 would institute a single payer health care system by
> expanding a
> greatly improved Medicare system to everyone residing in the U. S.
>
> HR 676 would cover every person 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, hearing services including hearing aids, chiropractic, durable
> medical equipment, palliative care, and long term care.
>
> HR 676 ends deductibles and co-payments. HR 676 would save hundreds
> of
> billions annually by eliminating the high overhead and profits of the
> private health insurance industry and HMOs.
>
> In the current Congress, HR 676 has 75 co-sponsors in addition to
> Conyers.
> Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced SB 703, a single payer
> bill
> in the Senate.
>
> HR 676 has been endorsed by 515 union organizations in 49 states
> including
> 125 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).
>
> For further information, a list of union endorsers, or a sample
> endorsement resolution, contact:
>
> Kay Tillow
> All Unions Committee For Single Payer Health Care--HR 676
> c/o Nurses Professional Organization (NPO)
> 1169 Eastern Parkway, Suite 2218
> Louisville, KY 40217
> (502) 636 1551
> Email: nursenpo@aol.com
> http://unionsforsinglepayerHR676.org
> 05/10/09
PRIVATE FOR PROFIT HEALTHCARE IS AN OXYMORON!
ReplyDeleteAs congress debates fixing Americas current private for profit healthcare disaster, global embarrassment, and national disgrace. The question is not weather we will have a public option. But rather what kind of public option we will have.
America is the only country in the developed world that has a GREED DRIVEN! PROFIT DRIVEN! IMMORAL! UNETHICAL! PRIVATE FOR PROFIT! healthcare delivery system.
As a result, hundreds of thousands of you are needlessly killed by your healthcare delivery system in America every year. And millions of you are crippled and injured. America is the only country in the developed World that does not have a NOT FOR PROFIT, PATIENT PROTECTING, government managed healthcare delivery option for all it’s people.
America currently has the most costly health care system in the developed world. And the lowest quality of healthcare in the developed world. And the most dangerous, deadly, and FEARED! healthcare delivery system in the developed world.
America is the only healthcare delivery system in the developed World that does not cover all it’s people automatically. And America has the most difficult healthcare system to access in the developed World.
Contact your representative and tell then that a single payer, government managed healthcare option is a must for everyone that wants it. Tell them that you demand that the public option be the finest in the World.
Tell them it should be available to everyone that wants it as a HUMAN RIGHT! Tell them it should be the easiest to access in the entire world. Tell them it should have the highest quality, with the greatest patient protections in the entire world. Tell them coverage should be automatic for everyone that wants it unless they choose to opt out. Tell them it should be the most affordable in the World. And tell them that NO ONE in the public option is to be reported to a credit agency, or driven into bankruptcy for unpaid medical bills just because they got sick, for FREEK’EN SAKES!
Tell them, none of the requirements above are negotiable. Tell them, that we are prepared to remove them from office. Tell them, we will rain down the political FIRES OF HELL! on any of them that would betray the American people. Or continue to compromise the life, health, safety, and National security of the American people for the GREED DRIVEN, PROFIT DRIVEN! private for profit Healthcare Industry.
TELL THEM NOW! AND PASS THE WORD ON.
God Bless You
Jacksmith — WORKING CLASS