Huge Rally TODAY in DC for Health Care. IT's lOBBY DAY--JUNE25...

[sisters6]

I hope the media covers it. I think they will.


It's LOBBY DAY ALSO IN DC TODAY:
Help the marchers out by calling up your congresscritters --all of them.



http://healthcare09.org/

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http://www.laborradio.org/node/11393

Working Families Rally For Health Care Reform In Nation's Capital - AFSCME Says Public Option is Vital

By Doug Cunningham

As thousands of workers and their unions rally today in Washington for comprehensive health care reform AFSCME Legislative Director Chuck Loveless says private insurers cannot continue to monopolize health care.


“It’s extremely important that insurance companies have to compete with a government plan option. And if the government plan option is not in he mix, we’re not gonna get the kind of reform that we want to see.”

Loveless says AFSCME wants to see employers pay their fair share and health care reform should NOT include taxing the health benefits of working families.
“We want to see a progressive tax policy to help pay for health care reform. We do not want to see health care benefits for average middle Americans to be taxed. And that is, of course a serious policy option that's being considered now in the United States Senate."

AFSCME also says a Medicaid expansion paid for by the federal government is a vital componet of meaningful health care reform.........................

[sisters6]

1. Unions, allies to rally in Washington for health care...............

http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/16077/

Unions, allies to rally in Washington for health care


WASHINGTON (PAI)--There’s a mass march on Washington for health care, after all, on June 25.

Unionists from around the country are set to descend that day on the nation’s Capital to demand universal, quality, affordable health care with cost controls and choice of doctors -- and to insist that Congress not pay for it by taxing workers’ health benefits.

If lawmakers impose that tax, says one union president, the Laborers’ Terry O’Sullivan, unionists -- both members and organizations -- will turn against the bill. He calls taxing workers’ benefits “dead on arrival.”

The unionists will be led by the Communications Workers, as 2,500 delegates to the union’s legislative conference and its subsequent convention will be in town. The health care lobbying follows a mass rally that starts at 11:30 a.m., on June 25.

The unionists will lobby lawmakers as Congress slogs through the heavy lifting of writing legislation to revamp the nation’s dysfunctional health care non-system. The big issues in dispute are whether to establish a public Medicare-like health plan to compete with the private insurers and keep them honest, and how to pay for the overhaul.

[flpoljunkie]

2. Dean will also be delivering his petition signatures and 'Nurse Jackie' will speak at the rally.

http://www.healthcareforamericanow.org/page/invite/edie

[sisters6]

3. Thanks. Yes it is hodgepodge of all types of advocates.

[Soylent Brice]

4. i hope someone is taking plenty of pics, and video.

you know the M$M isn't going to.

[sisters6]

5. Here is an article from today so far...........

I have been at work. Has the media--i.e. cable news shows covered it at all?


http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/24203.html

[FrenchieCat]

6. You thought wrong......not the televised 24/7 pundit stations anyways.