IBEW Business Manager, CNA Indiana Organizer Speak at Rally for HR 676

 IBEW Business Manager, CNA Indiana Organizer Speak at Rally for HR 676

IBEW Business Manager, CNA Indiana Organizer Speak at Rally for HR 676

Indianapolis, Indiana.   Over 100 people rallied for HR 676 outside the
annual stockholders meeting of Wellpoint/Anthem on May 20, then marched to
the offices of Indiana U.S. Senator Evan Bayh.  The rally was sponsored by
Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan.

Speakers at the rally included Tom Szymanski, Organizer and Business
Manager for IBEW Local 725 in Terre Haute, and Gary Fritz, Indiana
Organizer for the California Nurses Association/NNOC.  The Rally was
chaired by Julia Vaughn from Indiana AFSCME.

The rally called for passage of HR 676, national single payer health care,
ending for-profit insurance companies' participation in healthcare, and
for the resignation of Susan Bayh from the Board of Directors of
Wellpoint.  Susan Bayh, wife of Senator Bayh, was paid almost $300,000 as
a Wellpoint director last year.

Tom Szymanski can be heard at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylES7MKQNPU

Gary Fritz can be heard at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16K9i5uMsRE

We are grateful to Robert Pedersen for these videos.   #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 78 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 520 union organizations in 49 states including
127 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
06/08/09