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AFT Resolution

HEALTH CARE BILL

WHEREAS, the U.S. is the only industrialized nation without some form of federal health insurance and/or service; and

WHEREAS, consumers are paying runaway costs to private doctors, hospitals, drug and supply companies, insurance companies, as a result; and

WHEREAS, Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance, controlling nearly two-thirds of financing for all health care, today exerts a monopoly over the structure, delivery, extent, and cost of health care:

RESOLVED, that the private health care industry be subject to public control in the interests of extended, cheaper, and quality health care for all; and

RESOLVED, that the AFT publicly support the bill to provide for comprehensive, quality health care that is cheap and available to all.

(1979)

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