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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:28.0pt'>WORLD LABOR HOUR<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:22.0pt'>SATURDAY OCTOBER 31<sup>st</sup><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:22.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:22.0pt'>11 AM – 12 NOON U.S. CENTRAL TIME<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:22.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:22.0pt'>90.1 FM and webcast LIVE world-wide at <a href="http://www.weft.org">www.weft.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:22.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:22.0pt'>Live report from the national Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare conference in Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Five years after enactment of Affordable Care Act, a coalition of groups, including <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9QXxmOEjLX8TG5oRHyEnT0Z6wHPyt%2B6%2F" target="_blank">Physicians for a National Health Program</a>, <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JSUw0NRrQNsr61mkTAKUUEZ6wHPyt%2B6%2F" target="_blank">Healthcare-Now</a>, <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hRzzRp65TRPl5TCTM7qLWUZ6wHPyt%2B6%2F" target="_blank">Labor Campaign for Single Payer</a>, <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KYod4W1dXQuFTrAs5IrFiEZ6wHPyt%2B6%2F" target="_blank">National Nurses United</a> and One Payer States, says experience shows that the Obamacare health care law ( that was written by the corporate health insurance industry ) doesn’t resolve our problems and that the U.S. needs to finally join the rest of the industrialized world and adopt a single-payer Medicare for ALL health care program.</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Unfortunately, the Affordable Care Act is neither universal nor affordable. It will <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=uMCyquRJ%2B4X4X1zU8tAUGFKS2xkn8moE" target="_blank">leave 26 million Americans uninsured</a> and a comparable number <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2TetrioDIhY6nP8iGqn6RkZ6wHPyt%2B6%2F" target="_blank">underinsured</a>, vulnerable to financial distress in the event of illness. <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pGWm%2ByOamDWVcrZVfdJdH0Z6wHPyt%2B6%2F" target="_blank">Tens of thousands</a> of people will continue to die every year just because they lack health insurance. Medical problems are the leading cause of bankruptcy in the U.S., and <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AqQnsrolQ34ddgFSD2LQu0Z6wHPyt%2B6%2F" target="_blank">research</a> shows nearly 80 percent of those declaring bankruptcy due to medical debt had insurance at the onset of their illness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Several hundred Union leaders and rank and file Union member activists will be joined by more than 150 doctors, nurses and other health professionals from Illinois and at least 35 other states who will be in Chicago for two large conferences of single-payer Medicare for ALL advocacy groups.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Stay tuned after the World Labor Hour for “ The Union Edge “ , broadcast from Pittsburgh Pa. with Host Charles Showalter.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>WEFT – listener supported community radio for central Illinois and the WORLD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:22.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:22.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></div></body></html>