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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.”
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But it’s up to the hopefuls — not
Made in America!
Divided We Fail — to fill in the
blanks, he said.
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“They have to come as close to a
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piece of legislation as possible, so that
we won’t wait for a year after they
take office — and so that we have a
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Stern concluded.
“The objective is
universal access
to quality health
care.”
AL’S SHOES
NOVEMBER 16, 2007