Sign the petition from Gov. Dean - www.standwithdrdean.com - Support health-care for all reform!

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www.standwithdrdean.com

Sign the petition at DFA - Democracy for America http://www.democracyforamerica.com/:

Gov. Dean Video on the site - He says the following:

"If Barack Obama's healthcare plan gets changed to exclude a public option like Medicare, then it is not healthcare reform. Legislation rises and falls on whether the American public is allowed to choose a universally available public option or not."

Give America a choice. We support healthcare reform that allows individual Americans to choose either a universally available public healthcare option like Medicare or for-profit private insurance. A public option is the only way to guarantee healthcare for all Americans and its inclusion is non- negotiable.

Any legislation without the choice of a public option is only insurance reform and not the healthcare reform America needs.

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We must challenge the establishment with everything we have!

Read this article if you need to get your blood boiling:

http://www.laborforsinglepayer.org/

Burlington, VT -- Working people’s voices were not heard at the Obama
Administration's second regional Health Care Summit in Burlington, VT
on March 17.

"Despite the fact that several union spokespersons attended the
meeting, we were not called upon and unfortunately the voice of
workers was shut out of the discussion," said Peter Knowlton,
president of the Northeast Region of the United Electrical Workers
Union (UE). "When it came to the financial discussion, Gov. Douglas
and Gov. Patrick only
called on wealthy special-interests from the worlds of business and
professional circles."

Sandy Eaton, a nurse who attended the forum stated that nurses’ voices
went unheard as well. "Nurses were well represented, but our voices
were not heard -- and the term "nurse" or "hospital worker" was never
mentioned in the two hour forum," said Eaton who is a member of the
executive board of the Massachusetts Nurses Association.

Outside the auditorium where the summit was being held, over 250 labor
and community members rallied in support of HR 676 and single payer
healthcare. “Our system needs fundamental reform,” said Dawn Stanger,
President of the Vermont Workers Center-Jobs with Justice. Stanger, a
UPS employee and member of Teamsters Local 597, was joined by dozens
of unionized nurses who worked next door at Fletcher Allen Health
Care, the largest hospital in Vermont.

“We need to build a movement to demand change,” Stanger told the
crowd. The Vermont Workers Center is coordinating a major statewide
“Healthcare Is a Human Right” rally on May 1 at the Vermont Statehouse
which will include U. S. Senator Bernie Sanders. The rally will oppose
Vermont Governor Douglas’ proposed budget cuts to healthcare programs
and support state and national single-payer legislation...

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Enough!

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