Kentucky AFL-CIO President and UAW Local President Speak at Rally for Single Payer

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Single payer is the ONLY way to keep costs down. More and more unions are seeing the light.


Kentucky AFL-CIO President and UAW Local President Speak at Rally for
Single Payer

Louisville, Kentucky. Over 150 peopled rallied for single payer health
care and HR 676 in front of Humana’s headquarters in downtown Louisville
on Thursday, May 28th. The demonstration for single payer in Louisville
is one of more than fifty taking place around the country May 27 to June
3rd.

Two of the speakers at the rally were Bill Londrigan, President of the
Kentucky AFL-CIO, and Rocky Comito, President of UAW Local 862 at Ford’s
Louisville Assembly and Kentucky Truck Plants.

Londrigan’s speech is at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dqUzldiOwU

Comito’s remarks are at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWt-S10hW5Q

We are grateful to Jim Pence and his ‘Hillbilly Report’ for making these
videos available. http://hillbillyreport.org/showDiary.do?diaryId=156
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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 77 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
[phone]
Email: [e-mail]
http://unionsforsinglepayerHR676.org
05/29/09

[JimWis]

1. This week, Wednesday, Senator Feingold had a

listening session here where I live. I wasn't able to go, but I read about it tonight in my local paper. Out of the 42 questions asked during the session, 16 were regarding health reform and single payer. That impressed me. Some were questions and some were statements supporting single payer and asking for Feingold's help. It didn't cover much on his reply, other than our representatives were working on it. After seeing that and reading your post, I am encouraged that this movement is slowly growing. Thanks for sharing the information. This is the second time today I kicked one of your posts. Since it isn't about Sotomayor, it probably won't get very far. Thanks again.