Health Care Rally Orlando, Fl

Workers from unions affiliated with the Florida AFL-CIO joined a broad coalition of area organizations including the healthcare workers union SEIU, Jobs with Justice, ACORN, the Florida Alliance for Retired Americans and the health care advocacy organization HCAN (Health Care for America Now) in a rally at Senator Nelsons office urging him to support meaningful health care reform. Health care reform must give American the choice of a strong and competitive publically administered health insurance option. This is the lynchpin of all health care reform and is the best way to lower costs, ensure the availability of coverage and give people a real choice for their health insurance.

· Health insurance benefits currently provided by employers must not be taxed. Real wages in America have stagnated and people are earning less than they did decades ago. Taxing these benefits will continue this decline and will only hurt the struggling economy.

· Employers must pay their fair share for health care. If employers continue to deny decent health care coverage to their workers, they must pay into the system to provide coverage for the uninsured. The taxpayers should not be required to pay for workers who should have coverage from their workplaces.

· Health care reform must ensure affordable coverage for pre-Medicare retirees. Employers that offer coverage to their pre-65 retirees incur enormous expense, but without that coverage, retirees have no affordable options for finding coverage on their own.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• AFL-CIO
• health care
• Florida AFL-CIO
• labor movement
• unions
• health care reform
• public option
• grassroots
• activism
• orlando
• Senator Nelson
• workers

[nthjalte]

LOL national free health care in super capitalistic USA where profit is God and free is Satan is utopia. You better call Tom Cruise to solve this cuz it's mission imposible.

I feel sorry for poor middle and low class people in america. I hope YOU get someday what you deserve. But you must realize that your goverment should be afraid of you. You must go to protest to white house in great numbers like million or two and not allow anyone to go in or out of it until u get whats yours.

[usafreedom1976]

Anyone consider that our government deliberately allowed things with the economy and health care get this bad so that Americans would be primed for socialism? Do we really want the government to dabble in our health care? I know that it sounds good, all the promises they're making, how much they care about us and want the best for us...but remember, if it's too good to be true then it is probably too good to be true. For your sake, your family's sake, and America's sake - read the bill!