National Nurses United Says Senate Bill Solidifies Status Quo – Push For Real Reform Will Continue

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/12614

Submitted by Doug Cunningham on December 23, 2009 - 3:49pm
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By Doug Cunningham

: “Right now as far as making health care a basic human right there’s nothing in that that indicates that’s how we feel as Americans. We’ve solidified the fact that we’re gonna go for some time with an industry that puts profit before patients. And that’s what we’ve got.”

National Nurses United Co-President Jean Ross on the Senate’s health insurance bill. The nurse’s union believes health care should be a human right and the best way to make that happen is to replace our for-profit health insurance industry with a single payer universal national healthcare system. Ross says far from healthcare reform we need , this Senate bill instead solidifies the status quo, turning tens of millions more people over to an industry that she says is literally killing us – financially and through patient outcomes worse than nations that have single payer universal care.

: “It feels like we were desperate to pass a bill and that’s what we did. But, on a higher note, we will continue to advocate for real health care reform. This isn’t it – and it’s going to come.”

[BrklynLiberal]

1. A very courageous group...

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Perhaps most impressive are the moves made by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, Physicians for a National Health Program, and Progressive Democrats of America to ensure that the option of single-payer is not forgotten as Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi establish their domestic policy priorities. To that end, sixty activists from these and allied groups met one week after Election Day at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington with Michigan Congressman John Conyers, an early Obama backer and the chief House proponent of real reform, to forge a Single-Payer Healthcare Alliance and plot specific strategies for influencing the new Administration and Congress.

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http://www.progressive.org/mag/nichols0109.html

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2. we will continue to advocate for real health care reform. This isn’t it

Nope. It most certainly is not.