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Massachusetts AFL-CIO Launches "McCain: McSame as Bush - Bad for Working Families"
McCain: McSame as Bush - Bad for Working Families
The AFL-CIO has designated April as National Health Care month to raise awareness about the dire state of health care in the
This election year is a critical one and if elected, John McCain’s plan for health care will be devastating to working families. McCain is woefully wrong on health care. He is talking only about taxing people’s healthcare – while maintaining the status quo regarding the rest of our broken health care system. McCain’s plan will push workers into the private market to fight big insurance companies on their own. Workers will see health care costs rise ever higher, benefits will decrease, and many more will have no health care at all. As if that’s not enough, he has voted for billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.
In the fall of 2007, McCain voted in opposition of the reauthorization of the SCHIP program which provided health care for millions of uninsured children. He felt it covered "too many children". As a senator, McCain had no problem with letting children go without health care, and we can be sure as president he would continue to treat children with the same kind of callousness. We cannot let someone with such disregard for health care become president.
The Massachusetts AFL-CIO has launched a “McCain: McSame as Bush - Bad for Working Families” page where you can read up on why McCain will be more of the same. Click here to view the page. Please share this page with your brothers and sisters as a way to participate in Health Care month and mobilize for reform.
Additionally, there will be a national Labor to Labor walk on May 17th focusing on how John McCain plans to tax our health benefits. Click here for details.
Click here to read about McCain's refusal to meet with workers struggling with the health care crisis.
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