Families USA: NFIB Now Supports Expanding Public Health Programs
Families USA: NFIB Now Supports Expanding Public Health Programs
During a conference call promoting the new Harry and Louise ads, Ron Pollack, the Executive Director of Families USA, revealed that the National Federation of Independent Business — a group which strongly opposed President Clinton’s health reform effort but now promotes changing “the status quo” — supports expanding public health programs:
In the conversation I had with Todd [Stottlemyer]….when I talked about…the problems with private health programs and their failure to meet people who in no doubt need support… I said to him that that it was a top priority for Families USA in terms of seeing change…[to expand public health programs]… He was not aware of that…[I told him] we are going to push really hard for that and he said he would support it.
Stottlemyer’s endorsement of an expansion of public health programs is a significant development and a welcome reversal from the group’s insistence that “Americans should receive their health insurance and healthcare through the private sector.”
Read more about the importance of public programs here.
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If businesses are going to jettison that pesky health insurance benefit (as yet another boost to executive compensation), they have to do so compassionately.
Not everyone has the disposable income to take advantage of John McCain’s tax credit. Democrats, led by Ron Wyden, floated a similar plan in a bipartisan proposal last winter.
It’s hard to banish low income workers losing their health insurance to little to no care.
August 20th, 2008 at 10:34 am