AFL-CIO: Health Care Reform Bill Good For Working Families

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/13146

Submitted by Doug Cunningham on March 18, 2010 - 3:17pm
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By Doug Cunningham

: “This health care bill is good for working families now and even more in the future. Now, it’s not a perfect bill. But we’re realistic enough to know it’s time for the deliberations to stop and for progress to begin. “

AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka. Trumka says most of the tax on health care benefits has been stripped from the bill

: “Eighty percent of it’s been eliminated for all Americans, and that’s because of the efforts of the workin’ men and women of the AFL-CIO.”

In announcing the AFL-CIO's support for President Obama's health care bill, Trumka stressed that the labor federation doesn't see this as the end of the road on health care reforms.

: "We don't think this is the end of health care reform, we think this is an important first step. Because every single time in the past the insurance companies have been able to stop any type of health care reform bill from passing, this time they won't be successful and we will have a strong platform that we can continue to build on out into the future."

And Trumka says passage of this reform will work for, not against, labor supported political candidates in November.