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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers #110
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The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) represents approximately 750,000 members who work in a wide variety of fields, including utilities, construction, telecommunications, broadcasting, manufacturing, railroads and government. The IBEW has members in both the United States and Canada and stands out among the American unions in the AFL-CIO because it is among the largest and has members in so many skilled occupations.
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Itasca Progressive Caucus
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The Itasca Progressive Caucus studies and works to educate the public on issues important to the local group, including Health Care Access for All, A Greener Environment, Issues of Peace, and Corporate Responsibility. The Caucus is part of the Minnesota DFL Progressive Caucus, which is one of several constitutent caucuses that are chartered by the Minnesota State DFL to represent the interests and issues of these groups.
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League of Women Voters
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The League of Women Voters of the United States undertook a two-year study of the funding and delivery of health care in the US and announced its final position in April 1993. When the Minnesota Universal Health Care Committee was formed the MN League joined to further the goal of universal health care on a state basis. The League's Position states "The League of Women Voters of the US believes that a basic level of quality health care at an affordable cost should be available to all US residents. Other US health care policy goals should include the equitable distribution of services, efficient and economical delivery of care, advancement of medical research and technology, and a reasonable total national expenditure level for health care."
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Metropolitan Independent Business Alliance
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MetroIBA is a non-profit organization working to support and preserve locally owned, independent businesses in the Twin Cities region. MetroIBA's mission is to help the Twin Cities maintain its unique community character, provide continuing opportunities for entrepreneurs, build economic strength, and create an environment where locally owned, independent businesses grow and flourish.
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MN Association of Professional Employees
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MAPE supports universal single-payer health care because MAPE believes health care is a right of all Minnesotans. Health care must be available to everyone, and a single-payer, Medicare-for-all system is the only method that can provide universal health care while reducing health care costs without damaging quality of care.
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MN COACT
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Minnesota COACT (Citizens Organized Acting Together) is a statewide citizens' organization of 12,000 members, which has been organizing for single-payer universal health care since helping to get the first single-payer bill introduced in 1991 as part of the Health Care Campaign of Minnesota. in the 2003-04 legislative session, COACT testified in behalf of MUHCC for the reintroduced bill which passed out of the Senate Health Committee on a historical vote. The testimony was prepared by MUHCC's health system analyst Kip sullivan who was COACT's former research director.
COACT's mission is to educate and organize people to empower themselves to take action in the democratic process on social justice issues, including single-payer and maintaining family farms as stewards of the land. |
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MN DFL Progressive Caucus
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A grassroots organization that is committed to advancing issues of justice and equality, and helping to elect progressive Democratic candidates.
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MN Farmer's Union
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The Minnesota Farmers Union has long been a strong supporter of universal single-payer health care. Without a doubt, health care access and cost have risen to the top of issues concerning the farmers and rural residents we represent. MFU is also very concerned about the next generation of farmers. Options for affordable, accessible health care is a huge concern for young farmers. This would be addressed by adopting a Universal Single Payer system
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MN Green Party
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A grassroots organization dedicated to the values of the international Green movement. The GPMN strives to build a society in which all can lead full and productive lives in harmony with each other and with nature.
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MN Nurses Association
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At the 2005 Convention for the MNA House of Delegates, the following resolutions were adopted on October 25, 2005: ... MNA reconfirms its commitment to its longstanding Health Care Reform Principles, ... MNA will thereby immediately make health care reform that adheres to those principles once again a top organizational priority, and ...that in making principled health care reform again a top organizational priority, MNA will again lead in the following ways: ... Educating the MNA membership regarding the principles articulated in ANA’s “Health Care Agenda 2005” on:... Health care as a right ... Universal access, quality health care; and ... The single payer mechanism for financing a reformed health care system.
[abridged from their website 26 JUN 07]
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MN Senior Federation
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Over 400,000 Minnesotans have no health coverage. With the passage of Medicare, seniors were guaranteed health coverage, and MnSF supports a system of “Medicare for everybody”. We support passage of legislation to enact a statewide signle payer system run by a publicly accountable board of consumers, and MnSF members work in partnership with the Minnesota Universal Health Care Coalition on fighting for affordable healthcare for everybody. I encourage you to get involved in the health care issues of MnSF, issues on behalf of all generation. Visit the MnSF calender, which includes committee information, and join us at our next Health Action Committee meeting.
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National Association of Social Workers, MN
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The National Association of Social Workers, both in Washington, DC and in Minnesota, has consistently supported the adoption of a universal single-payer health care delivery system nationally and in Minnesota, because it is the most affordable, most democratic means to deliver necessary, reasonable physical and mental health care to every resident, regardless of income or employment status. Health care is really a basic civil right in a decent society, and it is an international scandal that the wealthiest nation on Earth cannot claim to be the healthiest nation on Earth.
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Network of Spiritual Progressives, Minnesota Chapter
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The Minnesota chapter of the Network of Spiritual Progressives aims to build a local organization that will exemplify the way a new bottom line of love, compassion, community, fairness and peace can shape a healthy community and political process. They hold regular meetings, engage in specific activities to apply progressive spiritual principles to needs in local communities and the nation, and provide information and support to others who want to ground their work in spiritual principles.
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Physicians for a National Health Program, MN
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A single-payer healthcare system makes sense to physicians because it would reduce the amount of administrative and billing time for us and allow more time to attend to care of patients. It would also provide a mechanism to redistribute funding so that we can obtain the proper specialty mix and geographic distribution of physicians. It would also reduce stress on our patients and thus improve their health.
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SEIU Health Care Minnesota
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We are the Service Employees International Union, an organization of more than 1.8 million members united by the belief in the dignity and worth of workers and the services they provide and dedicated to improving the lives of workers and their families and creating a more just and humane society.
SEIU is the fastest-growing union in North America.
We are the largest health care union, with 1,000,000 members in the field, including nurses, LPNs, doctors, lab technicians, nursing home workers, home care workers.
In the Heartland, we are 14,000 of your neighbors and health care providers, united in SEIU Healthcare Minnesota. We are united to build strong communities, a health care system that works for everyone, and to restore the American Dream. |
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SEIU MN State Council
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Our families count on affordable, quality health care that's there when we need it. But care that once seemed reliable is quickly being priced out of reach for thousands of hardworking, taxpaying Americans.
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United Food and Commercial Workers #789
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... Employer provided health care is dangerously close to becoming a thing of the past. If we don’t put in place a more accessible, efficient, quality driven and affordable plan, more working men and women will be relegated to the growing number of uninsured. This isn’t just the opinion of one Union President, but the opinion of a growing number of experts in the health care delivery business...
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