Everyone has a health care story. Part 1 7/1/09 Orlando, Fl
Posted on March 21st, 2010 by admin
Workers from unions affiliated with the Florida AFL-CIO joined a broad coalition of area organizations including the healthcare workers union SEIU, Jobs with Justice, ACORN, the Florida Alliance for Retired Americans and the health care advocacy organization HCAN (Health Care for America Now) in a rally at Senator Nelsons office urging him to support meaningful health care reform.
Health care reform must give American the choice of a strong and competitive publically administered health insurance option. This is the lynchpin of all health care reform and is the best way to lower costs, ensure the availability of coverage and give people a real choice for their health insurance.
· Health insurance benefits currently provided by employers must not be taxed. Real wages in America have stagnated and people are earning less than they did decades ago. Taxing these benefits will continue this decline and will only hurt the struggling economy.
· Employers must pay their fair share for health care. If employers continue to deny decent health care coverage to their workers, they must pay into the system to provide coverage for the uninsured. The taxpayers should not be required to pay for workers who should have coverage from their workplaces.
· Health care reform must ensure affordable coverage for pre-Medicare retirees. Employers that offer coverage to their pre-65 retirees incur enormous expense, but without that coverage, retirees have no affordable options for finding coverage on their own.
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Workers from unions affiliated with the Florida AFL-CIO joined a broad coalition of area organizations including the healthcare workers union SEIU, Jobs with Justice, ACORN, the Florida Alliance for Retired Americans and the health care advocacy organization HCAN (Health Care for America Now) in a rally at Senator Nelsons office urging him to support meaningful health care reform.
The President makes clear that as Congress works through health care reform legislation, it must include fundamental changes that lower costs, ensure Americans have choices, and establish access to quality, affordable health care for all Americans. But what we cant welcome, the President says, is reform that just invests more money in the status quo reform that throws good money after bad habits. (public domain)
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