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The leading slate of Democratic Party Presidential candidates (Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards, before he dropped out) have proposed free-market answers to the health insurance tragedies most of us know are caused by the for-profit nature of the American health care system.

Since the release of Michael Moore's film SiCKO in 2007, the debate about the lack of access to health care has come to the fore. A national movement has sprung up to demand that the United States adopt a 'single-payer" government-sponsored system like those in much of the industrial world. In this episode of Labor Beat, we feature the dynamics of that growing movement in Chicago, including actions by the National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Organization and the Chicago Single-Payer Action Network, in 2007 and 2008. The episode runs 29 minutes.

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