[Peace-discuss] FW: WORLD LABOR HOUR SAT. OCT. 31st

[David Johnson]

WORLD LABOR HOUR

 

SATURDAY OCTOBER 31st

 

11 AM - 12 NOON  U.S. CENTRAL TIME

 

90.1 FM and webcast LIVE world-wide at www.weft.org 

 

Live report from the national Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare
conference in Chicago.

 

Five years after enactment of Affordable Care Act, a coalition of groups,
including Physicians for a National Health Program
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9QXxmOEjLX8TG5oRHyEnT0Z6wHPyt%
2B6%2F> , Healthcare-Now
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JSUw0NRrQNsr61mkTAKUUEZ6wHPyt%
2B6%2F> , Labor Campaign for Single Payer
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hRzzRp65TRPl5TCTM7qLWUZ6wHPyt%
2B6%2F> , National Nurses United
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KYod4W1dXQuFTrAs5IrFiEZ6wHPyt%
2B6%2F>  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.

Unfortunately, the Affordable Care Act is neither universal nor affordable.
It will leave 26 million Americans uninsured
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=uMCyquRJ%2B4X4X1zU8tAUGFKS2xkn
8moE>  and a comparable number underinsured
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2TetrioDIhY6nP8iGqn6RkZ6wHPyt%
2B6%2F> , vulnerable to financial distress in the event of illness. Tens of
thousands
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pGWm%2ByOamDWVcrZVfdJdH0Z6wHPy
t%2B6%2F>  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 research
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AqQnsrolQ34ddgFSD2LQu0Z6wHPyt%
2B6%2F>  shows nearly 80 percent of those declaring bankruptcy due to
medical debt had insurance at the onset of their illness.

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.

 

Stay tuned after the World Labor Hour for " The Union Edge " , broadcast
from Pittsburgh Pa. with Host Charles Showalter.

 

WEFT - listener supported community radio for central Illinois and the WORLD

 

 

 

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