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Published by Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare.
The Labor Campaign for Single Payer [has] joined the growing number of nurses, doctors and other healthcare advocates who have responded to President Obama's State of the Union challenge to "let him know" if there is a better approach that "will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medicare, and stop insurance company abuses."
In a letter (attached) sent to the White House, the 35 labor leaders on the LCSP Steering Committee called the current stalemate on healthcare legislation unacceptable to the American people. "[W]e respectfully submit that taking single payer off the table was both a strategic and tactical mistake," they said. None of the proposals currently under consideration "meet the test of equity or justice." Instead, "A Medicare-for-All system would be far more cost effective than any of the proposed current reforms based on continuation of for-profit, market-based insurance. And it is a program that Americans are already familiar with--a solution right at our fingertips."
To view the LCS-P letter to President Obama, click here.
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