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October 29, 2017
Published on Oct 29, 2017
Senator Bernie Sanders, What The U.S. can learn from Canadian Healthcare, Convocation Hall, UofT, Toronto Ontario Canada, Sunday October 29 2017
Video Full Event: Senator Bernie Sanders, Toronto Ontario Canada, Sunday October 29 2017
Published on Oct 29, 2017
Senator Bernie Sanders, What The U.S. can learn from Canadian Healthcare, Convocation Hall, UofT, Toronto Ontario Canada, Sunday October 29 2017
October 29, 2017
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders arrives to visit the Toronto General Hospital as part of a cross-border tour of the Canadian health care system on Saturday. (CHRISTOPHER KATSAROV / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/10/29/live-us-senator-bernie-sanders-speaks-at-university-of-toronto.html
Photo: Sen. Sanders arrives to visit the Toronto General Hospital
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders arrives to visit the Toronto General Hospital as part of a cross-border tour of the Canadian health care system on Saturday. (CHRISTOPHER KATSAROV / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/10/29/live-us-senator-bernie-sanders-speaks-at-university-of-toronto.html
October 29, 2017
Published on Oct 28, 2017
U.S. senator Bernie Sanders is in Toronto to learn more about the Canadian healthcare system and how it works. He'll also be speaking at the University of Toronto on Sunday. Nitish Bissonauth with how the city is "feeling the Bern"
CityNews Toronto Video: Bernie Sanders visits Toronto
Published on Oct 28, 2017
U.S. senator Bernie Sanders is in Toronto to learn more about the Canadian healthcare system and how it works. He'll also be speaking at the University of Toronto on Sunday. Nitish Bissonauth with how the city is "feeling the Bern"
October 29, 2017
Bernie Sanders awed by Canadian health care
The Vermont senator and former presidential candidate says the great lesson he learned during a tour of Toronto hospitals is that Canada’s health system is innovative, contrary to what he hears from U.S. critics.
By THERESA BOYLE Health Reporter
Sat., Oct. 28, 2017
Excerpts:
Sanders said he was particularly impressed by his tour of Sinai Health System’s state-of-the-art neonatal intensive care unit. Built three years ago, it has separate rooms for each infant, which helps with infection control, privacy and noise. Pediatrician-in-chief Dr. Shoo Lee described a new model of care he has developed in which the parents of critically ill and premature infants serve as primary caregivers.
His tour of the hospital also took a stop at its billing office, where he seemed surprised to hear only one person worked.
Sanders also visited the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre at Toronto General Hospital. There, he was told by medical director Dr. Barry Rubin that there was no waiting list at all for patients needing urgent surgery. Rubin explained that patients at the centre get high-quality health care from world-leading experts. “Nobody thinks about the expense they are going to incur,” Rubin said.
Sanders met with a patient who had recently undergone bypass surgery as well as a procedure to correct leaky heart valves. Sanders asked him how Canadians felt about paying more in taxes than Americans but not having to pay private health insurance.
“The good thing is I have not had to worry about what this is costing,” the patient said. “I know it is expensive.”
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/10/28/bernie-sanders-awed-by-canadian-health-care.html
October 28, 2017
https://twitter.com/Kathleen_Wynne/status/924310396399271937
Photo: Sen Sanders with Kathleen Wynne, Premier of Ontario.
https://twitter.com/Kathleen_Wynne/status/924310575705755650https://twitter.com/Kathleen_Wynne/status/924310396399271937
October 28, 2017
By Radio Isla - Oct 27, 2017
Vermont state Senator Bernie Sanders said on Friday he would seek Congress to overturn Whitefish Electric's contract with the Electric Power Authority (AEE).
"Everything I've seen seems like a scandal. It seems to me that the idea that the Government and the Electric Power Authority will not seek for mutual help, which is what is usually done in this type of situation, surprises me. The compensation packages that this contract has seem extraordinarily high. We learned today that there is a provision in that contract that prohibits the state and federal government from auditing compensations and salaries which is not acceptable and is simply illegal. This is federal money and our job is to ensure that Puerto Rico is rebuilt as quickly as possible, as effectively as possible and as cost-effectively as possible. What worries me, not only in Puerto Rico, is that when there are billions of dollars for reconstruction, There are people out there who want to make a lot of profit in the way they can. And we have to say no, "he added.
Sanders arrived on Friday in Puerto Rico and visited with the mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulín Cruz Soto, the Playita community, which received a strong impact from Hurricane Maria. The senator of the Democratic Party also held a meeting with part of the union leadership, the mayor of Comerio Josian Santiago and vice mayor of Vieques, Daisy Cruz.
As part of the agenda, they discussed the situation of the electric power system and how to restore it more efficiently; the interference of the Fiscal Control Board and the economic problems of the municipalities and the role of the Corps of Engineers with the reopening of the schools.
http://www.radioisla1320.com/sanders-procurara-anular-contrato-whitefish/
Sanders will seek to cancel "Whitefish" contract
By Radio Isla - Oct 27, 2017
Vermont state Senator Bernie Sanders said on Friday he would seek Congress to overturn Whitefish Electric's contract with the Electric Power Authority (AEE).
"Everything I've seen seems like a scandal. It seems to me that the idea that the Government and the Electric Power Authority will not seek for mutual help, which is what is usually done in this type of situation, surprises me. The compensation packages that this contract has seem extraordinarily high. We learned today that there is a provision in that contract that prohibits the state and federal government from auditing compensations and salaries which is not acceptable and is simply illegal. This is federal money and our job is to ensure that Puerto Rico is rebuilt as quickly as possible, as effectively as possible and as cost-effectively as possible. What worries me, not only in Puerto Rico, is that when there are billions of dollars for reconstruction, There are people out there who want to make a lot of profit in the way they can. And we have to say no, "he added.
Sanders arrived on Friday in Puerto Rico and visited with the mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulín Cruz Soto, the Playita community, which received a strong impact from Hurricane Maria. The senator of the Democratic Party also held a meeting with part of the union leadership, the mayor of Comerio Josian Santiago and vice mayor of Vieques, Daisy Cruz.
As part of the agenda, they discussed the situation of the electric power system and how to restore it more efficiently; the interference of the Fiscal Control Board and the economic problems of the municipalities and the role of the Corps of Engineers with the reopening of the schools.
http://www.radioisla1320.com/sanders-procurara-anular-contrato-whitefish/
October 27, 2017
https://twitter.com/ricardorossello/status/923954347507093505
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/923950519063891968
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/923953239728578561
Twitter Photos: Sen. Sanders in Puerto Rico
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/923950454324842497https://twitter.com/ricardorossello/status/923954347507093505
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/923950519063891968
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/923953239728578561
October 26, 2017
https://twitter.com/NationalNurses/status/923630798338699266
https://twitter.com/NationalNurses/status/923627713574907904
https://twitter.com/NNUBonnie/status/923647136285130752
https://twitter.com/cidelson/status/923629995859349510
https://twitter.com/cidelson/status/923633199758106624
Photos: NNU RNs meeting with Sen Sanders discussing situation in #PuertoRico
https://twitter.com/NationalNurses/status/923635008639787008https://twitter.com/NationalNurses/status/923630798338699266
https://twitter.com/NationalNurses/status/923627713574907904
https://twitter.com/NNUBonnie/status/923647136285130752
https://twitter.com/cidelson/status/923629995859349510
https://twitter.com/cidelson/status/923633199758106624
October 25, 2017
Excerpt:
CONVENTION RESOLUTION | HEALTH CARE
Resolution 6: Making Health Care For All A Reality
October 24, 2017
Submitted by the Executive Council
The United States is at a health care crossroads. We either move forward toward making health care a basic right for everyone, or fall backward, with coverage and care increasingly out of reach as politicians actively take it away, employers cut back and higher prices make it ever harder to afford.
Making Health Care a Right
Having the health care we need, no matter who we are and regardless of our circumstances in life, is fundamental to our well-being as individuals and as a nation. That is why the American labor movement has fought for more than a century to make quality health care a basic right in the United States. Our longstanding goal for achieving this is to move expeditiously toward a single-payer system, like Medicare for All, that provides universal coverage using a social insurance model, while retaining a role for workers’ health plans. Any such system must guarantee everyone can get the health services they need without exclusions or financial barriers to care, and with access to high-quality doctors, hospitals and other health care providers; not diminish the hard-fought benefits union members have won for themselves and all working people; include long-term care for all; retain the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system as the primary direct provider of fully integrated care to veterans; provide multiemployer and other worker health plans the opportunity to administer core health benefits and to provide supplemental benefits, each on a fully tax-advantaged basis; and keep a strong federal role without shifting costs to states.
We will support legislation that guarantees health care as a human right through an improved Medicare for All, which we will judge according to our core values. We look forward to working with the sponsors of single-payer plans to ensure the needs and concerns of working people and their unions are met.
To transition to an improved Medicare for all system, we should begin taking steps toward creating a single-payer system by lowering Medicare’s eligibility age from 65 to at least 55. This would extend health care provided on a single-payer basis to millions more Americans. Further, this could help preserve coverage for pre-65 retirees, whose current health benefits earned through work are increasingly at risk. We also should create a public health insurance option that builds on Medicare or Medicaid as an alternative to for-profit insurance companies.
https://aflcio.org/resolutions/resolution-6-making-health-care-all-reality
Sen Sanders: Thank you to the @AFLCIO for your resolution in support of Medicare for All.
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/923296476968599552Excerpt:
CONVENTION RESOLUTION | HEALTH CARE
Resolution 6: Making Health Care For All A Reality
October 24, 2017
Submitted by the Executive Council
The United States is at a health care crossroads. We either move forward toward making health care a basic right for everyone, or fall backward, with coverage and care increasingly out of reach as politicians actively take it away, employers cut back and higher prices make it ever harder to afford.
Making Health Care a Right
Having the health care we need, no matter who we are and regardless of our circumstances in life, is fundamental to our well-being as individuals and as a nation. That is why the American labor movement has fought for more than a century to make quality health care a basic right in the United States. Our longstanding goal for achieving this is to move expeditiously toward a single-payer system, like Medicare for All, that provides universal coverage using a social insurance model, while retaining a role for workers’ health plans. Any such system must guarantee everyone can get the health services they need without exclusions or financial barriers to care, and with access to high-quality doctors, hospitals and other health care providers; not diminish the hard-fought benefits union members have won for themselves and all working people; include long-term care for all; retain the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system as the primary direct provider of fully integrated care to veterans; provide multiemployer and other worker health plans the opportunity to administer core health benefits and to provide supplemental benefits, each on a fully tax-advantaged basis; and keep a strong federal role without shifting costs to states.
We will support legislation that guarantees health care as a human right through an improved Medicare for All, which we will judge according to our core values. We look forward to working with the sponsors of single-payer plans to ensure the needs and concerns of working people and their unions are met.
To transition to an improved Medicare for all system, we should begin taking steps toward creating a single-payer system by lowering Medicare’s eligibility age from 65 to at least 55. This would extend health care provided on a single-payer basis to millions more Americans. Further, this could help preserve coverage for pre-65 retirees, whose current health benefits earned through work are increasingly at risk. We also should create a public health insurance option that builds on Medicare or Medicaid as an alternative to for-profit insurance companies.
https://aflcio.org/resolutions/resolution-6-making-health-care-all-reality
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