Kentucky Working People Protest McConnell’s Bandage Solutions

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/07/10/kentucky-working-people-protest-mcconnells-bandage-solutions/

by Mike Hall, Jul 10, 2008

Kentucky Working America members and Bluegrass State union activists today told Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) that the nation’s broken health care system needs serious and comprehensive reform—not a “Bandage Solution.”

At a rally and news conference outside McConnell’s office in Louisville, the activists delivered a long roll of “No Bandage Solution” petitions strung together by colorful bandages and signed by more than 21,000 Working America members in Kentucky.



The signatures were gathered by Working America canvassers who have been knocking on the doors of working families to reach out to people who don’t have a union on the job and give them a voice on working families issues.


Rabecca Gainey, assistant director of the Working America’s Kentucky office, told reporters:

Our members are telling us that they’re concerned about rising health care costs. They’re worried that they might not be able to get the care they need if they or their family gets sick. And they tell us that it’s getting harder to pay for the basics—putting food on the table and gas in the tank—not to mention health care.

In only five weeks, more than 21,000 Kentucky Working America members signed the petition to demand real health care reform instead of bandage solutions.

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