Guaranteed Healthcare

WASHINGTON, DC -- Sandy Eaton, RN, of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, addresses members of Congress and Congressional staff members assembled Wednesday to learn more about the Massachusetts model for reform and why people are still suffering and lacking healthcare under the plan.

58 members of Congress sent staff to learn more from the expert panel, and the briefing was hosted by the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care.  Congressman Eric Massa of New York moderated the briefing, and several other members of Congress attended as well, including Rep. John Conyers, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, and Rep Lynn Woolsey.

Some current health reform plans for the nation claim great victory for the Massachusetts law -- Chapter 58, as the state's residents know it -- but the expert panel walked the briefing attendees through the economic and social difficulties associated with the state plan that makes private health insurance companies huge profits while forcing the closure of many safety net programs and facilities.  The experts agreed -- extending this sort of reform to the nation would surely cause the same results -- only on a larger scale.