Leading the way on single payer
CFT President speaks to national conference of Labor Campaign for Single Payer
The following is a speech CFT President Joshua Pechthalt gave at the Labor Campaign for Single Payer National Conference on August 23, 2014 in Oakland.
Good morning and thank you for inviting me to speak at your conference.
Fixing the healthcare crisis
Single payer system is the solution
Hundreds of union members, seniors, and healthcare activists
attended a rally in downtown San Francisco for single payer
healthcare, held outside a health insurers’ convention on June
19, 2008. Speakers like Hene Kelly of United Educators of San
Francisco (listen to her four-minute speech below) urged support
for single payer healthcare. Embodied in SB 810 in California, it
would eliminate the insurance corporation middleman, which wastes
an average of more than one quarter of every healthcare dollar
for administrative costs and profits.