Posted on 09/08/2006 7:58:20 PM PDT by FairOpinion
After Schwarzenegger Vetoes Healthcare Coverage, John Edwards and Phil Angelides to Join California's Largest and Fastest Growing Union in Major Healthcare Reform Announcement
SAN JOSE, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Phil Angelides will join hundreds of rank-and-file leaders from California's largest and fastest growing union as SEIU United Health Care Workers-West makes an announcement about their commitment to bring universal health care coverage to California by 2008 and make fundamental change in Washington D.C. and Sacramento. The announcement will come as 2,000 healthcare workers from across the state convene at the 2nd Annual SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW) Leadership Conference. With polls showing healthcare among voters' top concerns, and Governor Schwarzenegger's refusal to sign SB 840, Senator Sheila Kuehl's universal health care legislation, as a backdrop, the union sees an opportunity to win health care coverage for all Californians -- not just their members.
WHEN: September 8 and 9, 2006
WHERE: San Jose Convention Center 180 W. San Carlos St. San Jose, CA Media check-in table on 2nd floor
SPEAKER SCHEDULE:
Friday, September 8th: -- 10:20 a.m.: Cindy Chavez, Vice-Mayor of San Jose -- 10:30 a.m.: Sal Rosselli, President of SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West -- 11:45 a.m.: Phil Angelides, California State Treasurer and Democratic candidate for Governor
Saturday, September 9th: -- 1:15 p.m.: John Edwards, former Senator and Vice Presidential candidate
ABOUT SEIU-UHW UHW conducts the strongest member-led, issue-driven, year-round political program of any local union in the state, and this fall will produce more than 20,000 hours of volunteer work to help elect gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides and change the course of California.
With 140,000 members, UHW is the largest healthcare workers union in California, representing hospital professional, technical and service classifications, nursing home caregivers and homecare providers.
And people still can't see the difference between Arnold and Angelides?!
Get used to the Socialized Medicine, and the socialized everything....if the Hezbocrats gain in the Congress in November.....
Die detcamps commen later.
I'm in favor of universal health coverage via the free market.
Remove legal restrictions from nurses and PAs opening their own clinics.
That'll fix the problem pretty quickly.
What you lose in brain power from the more academically inclined doc, you might just make up in the dedication and altruism of "called," experienced health pros.
Flood the market with alternatives and the price will drop like a rock....supply and demand.
CA: Gubernatorial Debate: October 7
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Just think, by the time I retire, I'll have free health insurance, but the waiting periods for care will be longer than I'll have left to live.
So, is he going to pay for universal health care with his millions?
You think healthcare is expensive now, just wait until it's free.
I've got one question for these two Commie pigs. Who is going to pay for it? "Da Gubmint" is not an answer. The Government does not have any money other than that it steals from its citizens.
The thing to note is that Angelides refused to take a position on Kuehl's bill. He's only decided he likes it now that it's going to be vetoed and there's no chance he'll actually have to go on record as saying he'd sign it.
Good ole' 'having it both ways' Phil.
A little "poetic justice" would go a long way here. Let the politicians pass their "free healthcare" bill. Then, the voters could pass a proposition making it mandatory that the morons who passed the "free healthcare" bill pay for it out of their own salaries. That would bring this Commie crap to a screeching halt.
Get John Edwards if you want to sell shampoo, otherwise he's the kiss of death for a political campaign.
The dynasty of the MD degree has to be relinquished if our society hopes to offer affordable medical care, appropriate to means, across the breath of its economic classes. The free market can enhance this access if the legal stranglehold of the profession's top echelons, are eased.
Out patient, discount pharmacies, managed by licensed pharmacists, at a profit, inside private hospitals is an example of a free market solution coexisting peacefully with the status quo.
A similar area is the mortuary business.
We had a guy die in our area a few weeks ago, and the cheapest they could get him buried was just under 5000 dollars.
There's no reason for that other than because of a legislative monopoly that's been granted to that industry.
If docs didn't have their legislative monopoly in ALL health areas, then medicine would get cheaper really quickly.
There's no real reason that an MD has to be the one to tell you to take tylenol.
By the time the nurses and PAs buy their own malpractice insurance, they'll be just as expensive to use as the MDs.
I say let the people "prescribe" their own drugs and be done with a lot of this crap!
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
Without tort reform, none of this will work at all!
PAs and nurses are a lot of the problem. In my home town, the hospital opened 50 years ago with 44 beds and 41 employees. Today, it has 66 beds and over 500 employees. THAT is where all the cash is going, not to the same 15 MDs it takes to run the hospital.
Get over yourselves. Complete medical school, or shut the hell up!
No, that's where legislation can help.
Anyone using the PA/Nurse clinic has to sign a waiver of right to sue, and a recognition that they are using an alternative system.
This would limit suits to absolutely egregious, criminal negligence.
You have to sign the same waiver when an MD does surgery, and you still get sued! It happens even for elective procedures with less than perfect results.
This subject is close to my heart and livelihood. Don't tread on me, please. I know enough about this to curl your hair. If what you propose were actually done, the PAs and nurses would be back working in the hospitals and MD offices in about.....two months, and damned glad to be there!
You can apply the free market to MDs, too.
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