I’ve almost forgotten, but Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the 86,000-member California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, the largest U.S. union of nurses, and a vice president of the AFL-CIO, hasn’t.
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All the healthcare professionals I’ve asked, and I’ve been asking plenty, support universal healthcare.
My last regular employment was at a hospital in nutrition services, (kitchen). Treatment and subsequent rehab for my neck and shoulder injury has been going on there for almost three years. I’ve become a fixture. So since the middle of May, I’ve been asking.
Without exception, all support The American Plan. There are the usual concerns about cost and implementation, but all see the need for true reform and are generally pissed the debate focuses more on preserving the take by insurance companies.
Doctors, nurses, therapists and administrators, (even the kitchen staff), all support universal access and are generally dismayed by the administration’s reluctance to use the power it was given in November to to initiate the reform they view as a no-brainer.
One Group + One Plan + One Payer = No Corruption.
The American Plan.
I hope you’re telling your elected representatives this, Leftover. You’re smarter than you like to think, I think.
“One Group + One Plan + One Payer = No Corruption.
The American Plan.”
Great slogan!
We really have GOT to go get those t-shirts, Cynical.
I can see it in my head
but I do not have the bread
to go and make it real
to tell ‘em how we feel.
One Group
+ One Plan
+ One Payer
—————
No Corruption
(gotta be vertical to be read-able)
Black-on-white, in Times Roman type.
“The American Plan” is listed from a WTF analysis by George Lakoff at AlterNet.
The rest is a hybrid of PNHPslogans.
It’s the mantra aspect I like. Easy to remember, chant-able at town hall meetings.
One Group. One Plan. One Party.