[OccupyCU] Fw: Take Action for Senate Single Payer Bill

[David Johnson]

            National Advisory Board

            Don Berry, President
            Maine AFL-CIO

            Jeff Crosby, President
            Northshore Labor Council (MA)

            Rose Ann DeMoro, Executive Director
            National Nurses United

            Donna Dewitt, President Emeritus
            South Carolina State AFL-CIO

            Maria Elena Durazo, Exec. Secty-Treasurer
            Los Angeles Federation of Labor

            Pat Eiding, President
            Philadelphia CLC

            Fernando Gapasin
            West Central Oregon CLC

            Ben Johnson, President
            Vermont American Federation of Teachers (AFT)

            Jeff Johnson, President
            Washington State Labor Council

            Greg Junemann, President
            International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers

            Bruce Klipple, President
            United Electrical Workers, UE

            Tom Leedham, Secty-Treasurer
            Teamsters Local 206

            George Lovell, President
            Vermont AFL-CIO

            Fred Mason, President
            Maryland/DC AFL-CIO

            Hugh McVey, President
            Missouri State AFL-CIO

            David Newby, President Emeritus
            Wisconsin State AFL-CIO

            Henry Nicholas, President
            AFSCME 1199

            Tim Paulson, Executive Director
            San Francisco CLC

            Josh Pechthalt, President
            California Federation of Teachers

            Clyde Rivers, Representing
            California School Employees Association

            Steven A. Tolman, President
            Massachusetts AFL-CIO

            Jos Williams, President
            DC Metro CLC

            Nancy Wohlforth, Representing
            California State AFL-CIO
           
      Dear David:

      The cause of universal healthcare is alive and well. Not only is the state of Vermont moving toward a single-payer system, but Vermont's U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced a bill and is holding a hearing tomorrow on the benefits other countries enjoy from a single-payer system that would benefit everyone except the profiteering middlemen who've rigged the current system.

      Click here to ask your senators to cosponsor and support. This is a joint action with Healthcare-NOW! and RootsAction.

      "The United States is the only major nation in the industrialized world that does not guarantee healthcare as a right to its people," Sanders said. "It is time that we bring about a fundamental transformation of the American healthcare system. It is time for us to end private, for-profit participation in delivering basic coverage."

      The bill, S. 1782, the American Health Security Act, would be a much more significant change to health coverage than those recently implemented. It would create a much simpler, less wasteful system of paying for healthcare, one that's in fact been tested in every other industrialized nation in the world, every one of which buys more healthcare for less money than we do in the United States.

      The current system remains so broken that change must come. The question is how slowly and how piecemeal, and with how much unnecessary suffering along the way.

      Join us in speaking up for universal coverage now!

      Please forward this email widely to like-minded friends.

      In Solidarity,
      Mark Dudzic
      National Coordinator
     
            LCS-P National Steering Committee 
            Wayne Bayer, Vice President
            New York State Public Employees Federation

            Paul Bigman
            IATSE Local 15

            Michael Bilbrey
            President, CSEA

            Donna Cartwright
            Pride @ Work, AFL-CIO

            Al Cholger
            USW Sub-District Dir., Detroit

            Jeff Crosby, President
            Northshore MA CLC

            Donna Dewitt, President Emeritus
            South Carolina State AFL-CIO

            Jed Dodd, General Chair
            Pennsylvania Federation BMWED/IBT
           Mark Dudzic
            USW & Labor Party

            Sandy Eaton
            MA Nurses Assoc.

            Jon Flanders
            Troy Area Labor Council

            Bill Gibbons
            USW Regional Dir (Ret)

            Don Giljum
            IUOE Local 148

            Bill Henning
            Activist, NYC

            Peter Knowlton, President
            New England, UE

            Martha Kuhl, Treasurer
            National Nurses United (CA)

            Paul Kumar, Political Director
            NUHW
           Traven Leyshon, President
            Green Mountain Labor Council

            Martha Livingston
            United Univ. Professions, AFT Lo 2190

            James McGee
            Transit Employees H & W Fund, ATU

            Lew Moye, President
            St. Louis CBTU

            David Newby, President Emeritus
            Wisconsin State AFL-CIO

            Elizabeth O'Connor
            Maine AFL-CIO

            Rodney Orr, Political Director
            UPTE/CWA9119

            Lenny Potash
            Labor United for Universal Healthcare
           Clyde Rivers
            CSEA

            Susan Reardon
            Pennsylvania Federation BMWED/IBT

            Jean Ross, Co-President
            National Nurses United (MN)

            Jim Savage, President
            USW Local 10-1

            Robert Score, Rec-Secty
            IATSE Local 1

            Peter Shapiro
            NALC Branch 82

            John Walsh
            IBEW

            Jos Williams, President
            DC Metro CLC

            Nancy Wohlforth
            California State AFL-CIO
           
     
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