ENDORSE SINGLE PAYER NOW

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At their national convention, the AFL-CIO has endorsed SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE. 
See note below from Unions for Single Payer HR676.

Now the question is, will they go back to their states, cities and communities and organize LARGE rallies and lobbying efforts to convince Congress and the President that this is true health care reform - the health care reform that voters thought they were getting (universal, not for profit) when they elected a Democratic Congress and Obama into office just a few months ago.

David e. Delk, Alliance for Democracy - Portland Chapter 503 232 5495 www.afd-pdx.org
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 11:13 PM

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ENDORSE SINGLE PAYER NOW

Dear Congress and President Obama,

 
> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:37:09 -0400
> From: Editor@unionsforsinglepayerhr676.org
> Subject: AFL-CIO Convention Endorses Single Payer Healthcare
> CC: singlepayernews@UnionsForSinglePayerHealthCare.org

>
> AFL-CIO Convention Endorses Single Payer Healthcare
>
> Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor
> federation representing 11.5 million workers in 57 international and
> national unions, has endorsed a single payer health care system as the
> best way to guarantee healthcare to everyone. The unanimous vote in favor
> of Convention Resolution 34, The Social Insurance Model for Health Care
> Reform, came immediately after President Obama had addressed the
> Convention last Tuesday.
>
> The resolution states: “The experience of Medicare (and of nearly every
> other industrialized country) shows the most cost effective and equitable
> way to provide quality healthcare is through a single-payer system.” It
> continues: “We reiterate our longstanding call for congressional leaders
> to unite behind such a plan.”
>
> Resolution 34 singles out HR 676 as one of a number of single-payer bills
> introduced in Congress and states: “The single-payer approach is one the
> AFL-CIO supports and that merits dedicated congressional support and
> enactment.” The Resolution concludes by stating: “Whatever the outcome
> of the current debate over health care reform in the 111th Congress, the
> task of establishing health care as a human right, not a privilege, will
> still lay before us.”
>
> The Convention adopted Resolution 34 after a thirty minute debate in which
> 12 delegates spoke in favor of the resolution and a number of delegates
> who wished to speak were still standing at the four floor microphones when
> the time allotted to debate ran out. No one spoke against the resolution.
>
> Those who spoke for the single payer resolution included three members of
> the AFL-CIO Executive Council, the Presidents of two state AFL-CIO
> federations, four Presidents or Executive Officers of Central Labor
> Councils, a high ranking official of the AFT who was chosen to speak in
> favor of the resolution by the AFT caucus and delegates from AFSCME and
> ILWU.
>
> Rich Trumka, in his speech to the delegates immediately after being
> elected President of the AFL-CIO the following day, reiterated his support
> for single payer healthcare telling the delegates: “Now, I know that a
> lot of us would prefer a single payer plan. I sure would.”
>
> Over 70 resolutions, an unprecedented number, were submitted to the
> Convention calling on the AFL-CIO to endorse single payer healthcare.
> More than 575 labor organizations, including 136 Central Labor Councils,
> 22 international and national unions, and 39 state AFL-CIO’s have endorsed
> HR 676, single payer legislation which has 87 sponsors in the House of
> Representatives. #30#
>
> Distributed by:
> 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
> 09/17/09

We the undersigned also fully endorse HR 676 and its corollary bill in the Senate, S 703, Single Payer legislations, as the only health care that will  be able to effectively mitigate the current health care crisis and its consequent economic crises.
Please do not betray your constituencies.
Please get on board if you are not already.
That in itself is about all any of you need to get re-elected.

Thank you for your time and consideration and serious attention to this vital issue. 

Sincerely,

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