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:: Saturday, May 08, 2004 ::
AFL-CIO Offers an Anemic Response to Health-Care Crisis LaborTalk By Harry Kelber
Unions are finding it difficult to "hold the line" on health-care benefits, despite the urging of the AFL-CIO. The 60,000 striking and locked-out Southern California grocery workers endured a nearly five-month strike to maintain their benefits, but in the end had to make concessions.
There are 41 million Americans who lack medical coverage and millions more are being forced to give up their health insurance as premiums continue to soar.
The answer to this critical problem is universal health insurance, paid for by the federal government from tax revenues and administered by the states. Not only England and Canada, but every industrialized nation around the globe, provides health-care coverage to its population under such a system. Why can't the United States, the richest country in the world, do the same?------------------------------------------- posted 7:24 AM :: reference link ::
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