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PAGE 8 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS SEIU joins with AARP and business groups to push for universal health care Stern said at the press conference. WASHINGTON, D.C. (PAI) — A “We’re coming together. Now the coalition of four influential but diver- politicians need to come together,” gent groups pushing to put universal said AARP chief executive officer health care on the national agenda, William Novelli. Novelli is a Republi- will not pick a single health care plan can operative whose ad agency cre- to promote, says the sole union leader ated the infamous “Harry and Louise” among the group, Service Employees ad campaign that helped sink national President Andy Stern. health care reform in 1994 by the Instead, he told Press Associates Clinton Administration. Inc. Union News Service that “Di- “The objective is universal access vided We Fail” will keep pushing to quality health care,” Stottlemyer principles for universal affordable said. health care so the issue will be the top Stern called it domestic priority in “big news,” since next year’s election NFIB has histori- — and so Congress cally been the and the next presi- most conservative dent must tackle the on health care is- issue under political sues. pressure to achieve “We pre-agreed that goal, and with on the principles” backing to do so. of affordable uni- The coalition is Todd Stottlemyer, President versal quality comprised of SEIU, National Federation health care with- the American Asso- of Independent Business out burdening fu- ciation of Retired ture generations Persons (AARP), the with high costs, Business Round- emphasis on wellness efforts and pre- table and the National Federation of vention and giving people choices in Independent Business. NFIB joined long-term care, he explained. Other the group Nov. 1. parts of the Divided We Fail platform NFIB spokeswoman Stephanie deal with retirement security and sav- Cathcart said after a Divided We Fail ings incentives. press conference that her group’s “But we would get ourselves in members “have been telling its leaders for 25 years that providing health care trouble if we tried to do specifics, as the AFL-CIO has gotten in trouble,” was their number one problem” and Stern said. The federation, which urging it to do something positive to SEIU is no longer part of, recently help them solve the dilemma. launched its own campaign to make The new NFIB president, Todd affordable universal health care the Stottlemyer, listened, and joined Di- top domestic issue from now through vided We Fail, she said. the election. But it, too, has not cho- But Divided We Fail has decided, sen a specific plan to back. That will unlike the Democratic presidential hopefuls, not to hammer out a specific occur afterwards, says campaign chair plan, Stern said. It would become just Heather Booth. But the hopes of both Stern’s group a forgotten sheaf of paper, he ex- plained. Most GOP hopefuls have yet and the AFL-CIO hinge on the out- come of the election, since the Demo- to be specific on health care. cratic hopefuls have offered specific What Divided We Fail wants to do plans while the GOP by and large has is push health care to the forefront of stuck with Bush’s plan to promote the electoral discussion and try to set health savings accounts. up a debate on the issue between the Several of the Republicans, how- Democratic and Republican nomi- ever, are beginning to think of health nees, once the parties settle on them. care as a national problem requiring a “You would hope by the time we elect someone” next November “there national solution, Stern said. “This election has got to be about would be a mandate to do something health care and the war. The Democ- on the Number 1 domestic issue,” rats’ starting place and the Republi- cans’ starting place, on both issues, are very different,” he said. “Our role in SEIU from now until then will be giv- ing people information on where the candidates stand.” Rain Forest Boots But it’s up to the hopefuls — not Made in America! Divided We Fail — to fill in the blanks, he said. Try a pair on, you’ll like them. “They have to come as close to a Tough boots for the Northwest. piece of legislation as possible, so that we won’t wait for a year after they take office — and so that we have a 5811 SE 82nd, Portland 503-771-2130 constituency really ready to push it,” Mon-Fri 10-7:30 Sat 10-5:30 Sun 12-6 Stern concluded. “The objective is universal access to quality health care.” AL’S SHOES NOVEMBER 16, 2007
