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In America - No one
should go without HEALTHCARE
For too long,
politicians on both sides of the aisle have wrung theirs hands, and
pointed to the problem of healthcare in America, but in the end, has
given it little more than lip service.
That has to end
NOW! Immediate action must be taken by the new
Administration. More than 47 million Americans - including 8.7
million children have no health care coverage at all.
One in four
Americans say their family has delayed medical care in the past
year. So what good is having the best hospitals and doctors in the
world, if working families are afraid to use them because of the
burdensome costs. More than half of the 5 million personal
bankruptcies since 2000 are the direct result of working families
inability to cope with their medical bills.
Health care costs
are rising at twice the rate of inflation - which in turn undermines
union bargaining, forces unionized employers to operate at a
disadvantage and ultimately, means more out of pocket costs for
working families.
Now, Presidential
Candidate John McCain's announced health care proposal is similar to
President Bush's failed plan. Like Bush's, McCain's plan undermines
existing employer based health care and pushes workers into the
private market to fight big insurance companies on their own. McCain
wants to tax your health care benefits, creating a new tax on
working families by making employer - provided health benefits part
of taxable income. McCain voted against reauthorizing the State
Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) because he said it
covered to many children. McCain risked health care for Seniors and
Low-Income Families by voting for billions in cuts to Medicaid and
14 billion in cuts for Medicare.
We can't allow
McCain to undermine our health care.
John McCain is wrong on Health Care!
Charlie Flemming
President Atlanta-North GA Labor Council
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