Checking the Vital Signs - Healthcare Crisis in Illinois

On CAN TV Chicago cable tv Channel 19:
Thurs., March 18, 9:30 pm
Fri., March 19, 4:30 pm
Thurs., March 25, 9:30 pm
Fri., March 26, 4:30 pm

On Evanston Cable Channel 6:
Mon., March 29, 5:30 pm
Wed., March 31, 9:00 pm
Sat., April 3, 12:30 am
Mon., April 5, 5:30 pm
Wed. April 7, 9:00 pm
Sat., April 10, 12:30 am

This fifth show in the Labor Beat series Healthcare Crisis in Illinois continues to examine the disparity in the delivery of healthcare in Illinois (and the nation) and how we can reform this broken system. Labor Beat host Wayne Heimbach invites comments from a powerful panel of labor movement healthcare activists. The discussion takes place in the midst of the current legislative dead-end in Congress over healthcare "reform". Members of the panel are: Dr. Quentin Young, National Coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program; Brenda Langford, President, NNOC/NNU Region 13, and Vice President, National Nurses United; Steve Edwards, President of AFSCME Local 2858, and member of Socialist Alternative.

"Polls show today that two-thirds of Americans are for a government-sponsored Medicare-like program," Dr. Young offered. And "59 percent of US doctors, a very conservative group, support a government-sponsored, tax-based" program. Regarding the class nature of how things are going, he explained that "the reduction in services, the closing of facilities are pointed to people at the bottom of the ladder, and at the same time luxury hospitals are still being built in the city and in this country." Considering the obstacles faced by advocates of a single payer, government-administered movement,the next step should be: "People on the street," Steve Edwards answered. "Within the NNU," Brenda Langford added, "we are aggressively working at organizing the RNs across the country...and we're promoting the single payer health program."

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