Unions go global to tell truth on NHS

[IndianaGreen]

Unions go global to tell truth on NHS

Wednesday 19 August 2009
by Tom Mellen

A three-million strong global union has launched a campaign to counter lies being spread by some opponents of the White House's health reform plans.

US rightwingers assert that US President Barack Obama's drive to guarantee affordable universal health-care amounts to a "socialist" takeover of the private insurance industry.

But the Workers Uniting union, a partnership between British union Unite and the US-Canadian United Steelworkers (USW), observed that the establishment of "an egalitarian health-care system" is "about human and civil rights."

At present, 46 million US citizens who cannot afford private health insurance have to fend for themselves if they fall ill.

Mr Obama's plan, which would cost up to £900 billion, would require employers to either furnish "meaningful coverage" for employees or contribute to a new public plan.

Republican and rightwing groups, backed by healthcare privateers, assert that the introduction of a universal insurance system would unfairly compete with private-sector plans.

And failed Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has implied that introducing "socialised health care" would entail the establishment of euthanising "death panels"where the elderly and infirm would be obliged to plead with faceless bureaucrats for their life.

Workers Uniting has used its website and popular social networking sites to expose this right-wing "nonsense."

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/world/Unions-go-global-to-tell-truth-on-NHS

[KansDem]

1. You got to hand it to the Brits: they know how to use the English language!

US rightwingers...

"US rightwingers!" :rofl: They tell it like it is!

In this country, the media refers to them as "real 'Muricans."

Okay, okay, I know they invented the language, all right? And as a one-time student of German, I'd like to thank them for getting rid of all those damn genders before sending it over here...!

[KakistocracyHater]

2. a decade later than I wanted, but now it's here, so

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