[lbo-talk] SEIU & single-payer

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jun 26 07:39:19 PDT 2008


A list lurker and SEIU dissident, who must remain anonymous for obvious reasons, wrote me offlist to say this:


> The convention resolution is meaningless.
>
> Watch what SEIU actually does. Stern has been
> backing every half-assed reform like Arnoldcare
> for the last few years. They just recently red-baited
> CNA in a mailer to CNA members for supporting
> "government health care".
>
> In [state name redacted - ed.], they wrote
> their own proposal for the health care reform
> commission, and it was one of the weakest.
> They opposed the singlepayer proposal in the
> commission.
>
> SEIU will just say, well we support singlepayer
> but its not politically feasible, so we are backing
> this other bullshit proposal that just happens to
> be acceptable to the insurance industry and
> hospital corporations.



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