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by Allen Nowakowski
CHICAGO, IL (9/22/09) – When SK Hand Tools Corp. dropped their employees’ health insurance coverage last May – completely, and with no warning – workers took to the picket lines. Friday at 1 pm they will be joined by two groups who understand what the denial of health care means: the “Mad As Hell Doctors” and nurses from the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC).
‘Mad As Hell Doctors’ and Cal Nurses to Join Picket Line at SK Hand Tools
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Those who wrote the Network movie screenplay may take exception to this "Mad as Hell Doctors" Windy Citizen headline.
Why are physicians infatuated with this union labor grievance? When you turn off the insurance company reimbursement spigot, doctors will be left out in the cold since some SK Tool Teamster members won't be able to pay their accumulated medical bills.
Some physicians may approve of an inefficient health care system which pays docs on a transactional basis. Once health care reform proposals change that to a pay for performance arrangment, we should find less need for picket lines as may become more affordable with the cooperation of patients & their physicians.
The doctors are angry because the debate has turned from Health Care reform to reshuffling insurance.
Every other industrialized country recognizes health care as a human right. Rights must be protected by the goverment. Just like Police and Fire protection.
We need Healt Care reform not insurance. Every victim in Michael Moore's documentary "Sicko" had insurance.
We need to keep Wall Street from interferring with Health Care. That's what the Doctors are ordering. A good old tried and true prescription of Guaranteed Single Payer Health Care.
The US Senate's legislative gauntlet makes health insurance reform & health care cooperatives the most feasible compromise in this national debate.
For one, I'll settle for public subsidies which make health care affordable & accessible. Legislators are reluctant to mess with a system which currently covers about 90 per cent of all Americans.
One New York Times guest columnist, an economist, this past Sunday argued that challenge is ensuring access & affordability for all Americans, while developing even more costly medical treatments & pharmaceuticals.
Can the free market afford to give million dollar health care to those who earn ten dollars per hour?
That's the question facing this nation.
However vociferous your reply, maybe we should explore why half of all Americans retire with no more than Social Security & then must live decades longer in dire circumstance.
My former opponent, Presidential Chief of Staff Rahm Israel Emanuel, knows from his father's Swedish Covenant Hospital Chicago medical practice that Americans need to earn more, save more & be better prepared financially for their retirements.
Health care addresses but one aspect of this national crisis. The big picture requires national consensus.
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