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Health care reform

 (courrier/internet du président Barack Obama)


Last Thursday's first-of-its-kind summit capped off a debate that has lasted nearly a year. Every idea has now been put on the table. Every argument has been made. Both parties agree that the status quo is unacceptable and gets more dire each day. Today, I want to state as clearly and forcefully as I know how: Now is the time to make a decision about the future of health care in America.

The final proposal I've put forward draws on the best ideas from all sides, including several put forward by Republicans at last week's summit. It will put Americans in charge of their own health care, ensuring that neither government nor insurance company bureaucrats can ration, deny, or put out of financial reach the care our families need and deserve.

I strongly believe that Congress now owes the American people a final vote on health care reform. Reform has already passed the House with bipartisan support and the Senate with a super-majority of sixty votes. Now it deserves the same kind of up-or-down vote that has been routinely used and has passed such landmark measures as welfare reform and both Bush tax cuts.

Earlier today, I asked leaders in both houses of Congress to finish their work and schedule a vote in the next few weeks. From now until then, I will do everything in my power to make the case for reform. And now, I'm asking you, the members of the Organizing for America community, to raise your voice and do the same.

The final march for reform has begun, and your participation is crucial. Please commit to join with me to take reform across the finish line.

Essentially, my proposal would change three things about the current health care system:

First, it would protect all Americans from the worst practices of insurance companies. Never again will the mother with breast cancer have her coverage revoked, see her premiums arbitrarily raised, or be forced to live in fear that a pre-existing condition will bar her from future coverage.

Second, my proposal would give individuals and small businesses the same choice of private health insurance that members of Congress get for themselves. And my proposal says that if you still can't afford the insurance in this new marketplace, we will offer you tax credits based on your income -- tax credits that add up to the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history.

Finally, my proposal would bring down the cost of health care for everyone -- families, businesses, and the federal government -- and bring down our deficit by as much as $1 trillion over the next two decades. These savings mean businesses small and large will finally be freed up to create jobs and increase wages. With costs currently skyrocketing, reform is vital to remaining economically strong in the years and decades to come.

In the few crucial weeks ahead, you can help make sure this proposal becomes law. Please sign up to join the Organizing for America campaign in the final march for reform:

http://my.barackobama.com/commit

When I talked about change on the campaign, this is what I was talking about: coming together to solve a huge problem that has been troubling America for 100 years and standing up to the special interests to deliver a brighter, smarter future for generations to come.

I look forward to signing this historic reform into law. And when I do, it will be because your organizing played an essential role in making change possible.

Thank you,

President Barack Obama

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*Communiqué de presse *

*Les Lilas le 4 mars 2010*

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*Défendre l’emploi, réfléchir  aux alternatives  industrielles et 
énergétiques  *



La FSU apporte son soutien aux luttes des salariés qui se battent pour 
préserver et développer l’emploi, dans le public et le privé. Elle salue 
le combat des salariés du groupe Total, qui se sont mobilisés et ont 
contraint le groupe à des concessions majeures. Elle s’indigne que Total 
qui dégage des  milliards de bénéfices, veuille  sacrifier  l’emploi 
dans le dunkerquois, afin de le délocaliser pour plus de profits, et 
affirme sa solidarité avec les salariés du site de Dunkerque.

Le mouvement syndical a la responsabilité de réfléchir  à l’élaboration 
de propositions pour des politiques énergétiques et industrielles qui 
répondent aux besoins croissants des populations, anticipent 
l’épuisement des ressources naturelles et  préservent  la planète.

Cette indispensable transformation de la politique industrielle et 
énergétique peut être créatrice d’emplois industriels nouveaux en nombre 
important, souvent très qualifiés, notamment autour des énergies 
nouvelles, mais aussi dans les secteurs des transports et du bâtiment.

Les propositions syndicales sur cette question doivent s’articuler 
étroitement avec la lutte contre les suppressions massives d’emplois, 
pour l’exigence de plans ambitieux de reconversions industrielles - qui 
auraient dû et devraient  être  anticipées - dans les secteurs où cela 
s’avèrerait nécessaire et pour le développement de nouvelles formations 
professionnelles initiales et continues pour les salariés actuels et 
futurs. Leur concrétisation suppose des politiques publiques offensives.

Ainsi, l’Etat doit à la fois :

   *   s’impliquer clairement et jouer un rôle moteur dans cette
     perspective en favorisant l’innovation et en finançant  la
     recherche, en développant des formations diversifiées pour des
     qualifications nouvelles, au lieu de choisir la prime à la casse
     et le soutien sans aucune contrepartie environnementale à des
     groupes industriels surtout désireux de maintenir leurs profits 
     au détriment de la planète ;

   *  peser sur les décisions du premier groupe boursier français, en
     l'obligeant à renoncer à ce projet de fermeture du site de Dunkerque.


Ne laissons pas les patrons décider seuls de notre avenir !

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