New York Labor Coalition Calls on the Wealthiest Americans to Pay Their Fair Share for Health Care R

Source: AFSCME.ORG

DC 37 activists joined other union members and community representatives at City Hall to urge their congressional leaders to support a U.S. House bill (HR 3200). The measure would impose an income tax surcharge on the richest one percent of Americans as a way to offset the cost of health care reform.

The event was part of the National Call-In Day for Health Care sponsored by Health Care for America Now! (HCAN) on July 28. AFSCME is a founding member of HCAN, a national grassroots campaign to win quality, affordable health care for all.

Several AFSCME affiliates participated in the nationwide action, generating close to 1,500 phone calls and 4,500 faxes to congressional offices. AFSCME members in Arkansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina and North Dakota delivered letters to targeted members of Congress.

At the New York event, advocates for the tax plan cited two studies showing that increases on the wealthy are needed to reach the goal of health care for all.


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/13/district-council-37-large_n_258376.html

DC 37 liked and backed him at one point. Now they don't.

I'm wondering if some kind of class consciousness is finally taking hold.

:wow: Oh yeah. Never mind. :nopity:

I just watched some of MTP and I'm still seething. Seems that irresponsible Americans who go to the doctor are robbing their employers.