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EVERYBODY IN NOBODY OUT: THE CASE FOR SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE (VIDEO SERIES)

The freight railroads' bargaining arm (the NCCC) has published its negotiation positions for the current round. As expected, health insurance benefits are chief among the issues where we remain far apart.

The railroads call our current healthcare benefits an "excessively rich plan." They say they are "unsustainable," the costs have been "exceeding for decades," the plan provides "very low member out-of-pocket costs," and is "inefficient."

They also say that railroad employees "are not engaged" in their health, "make poor healthcare decisions," "burden" the railroad companies by making poor "lifestyle" choices like smoking and drinking too much (20 percent higher than the non-railroad public).

You can read it for yourself here:
http://www.raillaborfacts.org/health-care/

The railroads also got multi-billion dollar federal tax cuts under the revision of the tax code in 2017. CSX, for instance, received a $3.3 billion windfall from 2016 to 2017. That's just one example.

At the following YouTube link, Brother Mark Dudzic, a former Union president and Chairman of the United States Labor Party endorses and painstakingly explains an alternative to the current, broken healthcare system: a system that would tax corporations and wealthy people in order to ensure everyone -- men, women, children and elderly -- can see a doctor without worrying about financial ruin.

Rich people think that your health, and the health of your family, is just a line item on an accounting sheet. They do not care about you. At least not enough to ensure your affordable access to medical care.

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