ConnectionInsurance and HMO Industries Spend nearly $700,000 per day To Kill Health Care Reform Measures

Industries have spent $585.7 million since 2007 on lobbying and campaign contributions

Health Care Reform is within our grasp. Unfortunately, a great deal of the information being published is misleading or out and out lies meant to de-feat it. A lot of that misinformation is being spread by politicians that de-pend on insurers that fund their political campaigns.

A campaign finance watchdog’s analysis of insurance and HMO political contributions and lobbying expenses found the industries spent $126,430,438 over the first half of 2009 and $585,725,712 over the past two and a half years to influence public policy and elected officials. The group, Public Campaign Action Fund, found that in the first part of 2009,

the industries were spending money at nearly a $700,000 a day clip to influence the political process and that the monthly pace of political spending this year has increased by nearly $400,000 over the average spent per month in the previous two years.

“The insurance and HMO interests are fighting health care reform with hundreds of millions of dollars,” com-mented David Donnelly, national campaigns director of Public Campaign Action Fund. “Why are so many in Congress willing to listen to an industry that is spending tens of millions every month on politics rather than on lowering their premiums or helping to address the costs of health care? They need the cash to pay for their campaigns.”

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the insurance interests have 875 registered lobbyists represent-ing its concerns in Washington D.C., and HMOs have 920 registered lobbyists. The total figure for 2009, ($1,795) is slightly fewer than 2,000 lobbyists the industries employed in 2008. It is possible that late hires dur-ing the important fall months will push 2009 figures past the 2008 record.

A Common Cause study earlier this year found that health care and insurance interests were spending a com-bined $1.4 million per day over the first quarter.

Retirees understand the importance of health care reform. The insurance lobby presents a huge obstacle to get-ting the reform we truly need, but I am confident that through our grassroots efforts in conjunction with the AFL-CIO and our progressive coalition partners we will be successful. Please continue your hard work. It is going to take the work of all of us to get the health care reform we desperately need.

Connie Entrekin, SOAR President

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I knew an elderly couple living in Washington state. He was a widower and she a widow, and they had known each other for a number of years. One evening there was a community supper in the big arena in the Club-house. The two were at the same table, across from each another. As the meal progressed, he took a few admiring glances at her and finally gathered the courage to ask her, "Will you marry me?" After about six seconds of careful consideration she answered, "Yes. Yes I will!" The meal ended and, with a few more pleasant exchanges, they went to their respective homes. The next morning, he was troubled. "Did she say 'yes' or did she say 'no'?" He couldn't remember . Try as he might, he just could not recall. Not even a faint memory. With trepidation, he went to the telephone and called her. First, he explained that he didn't remember as well as he used to. Then he reviewed the lovely evening past. As he gained a little more courage, he inquired, "When I asked if you would marry me, did you say 'Yes' or did you say 'No'?" He was delighted to hear her say, "Why, I said, 'Yes, yes I will' and I meant it with all my heart." Then she continued, "I am so glad that you called, because I couldn't remember who had asked me."

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“If the President has a BLT tomorrow, the Republicans will try to ban bacon.”U.S. Congressman, Alan Grayson, representing the 8th District of Florida

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From The Director

For those of you in the United States, SOAR is in the process of a major up-grade to our computer systems. The database that handles the membership and dues data of our organization is under a major overhaul. Hopefully, when it is completed we will have more accurate information to work with in a format that is clearer and easier to understand.

One of the major changes incorporated in this process is the handling of our dues refunds by the United Steelworkers Accounting Department. However, all questions pertaining to the refunds will still be addressed by the SOAR Department.

Another change that has been brought about because of this transfer of responsibility to the USW is that all of the refunds will be sent directly to the President of the Chapter rather than the Financial Officer. This change was brought about due to the number of Chapters who have failed to send us current officer information for that position. We currently have in-formation on about 99% of our Chapter Presidents and only about 55% of our Financial Officers. In order for us to select a field in our database that will get the checks out to most of our Chapters in an efficient manner we are forced into this new procedure. If or when we get accurate Financial Officer information in our database for the majority of our Chapters, we will send the checks directly to them if that is what our Chapter Officers prefer. Attached to this newsletter is an Officers Form. Please complete the requested information and return it my attention to the ad-dress on the form.

I want to alert you to a problem we are currently expe-riencing. Since we started this process in August we have been unable to process any renewals or new

member applications. The USW Information Services Department is currently changing the way this infor-

mation is processed in our database. We have been processing the dues we receive but have not been able to load the information into our system. Our members are receiving their can-celled checks in a timely manner. However, this project has caused a delay in getting their membership cards to them. Hopefully, by the time you receive this newsletter the change over will be completed and we will be work-ing on getting the backlog of membership cards out to our members. Please explain this delay to your members and apologize on our

behalf. I am confident the short term difficulties we are experiencing will be worth it when it is completed.

Jim Centner

Editor’s Remarks

To Chapter Presidents:

Please distribute this newsletter in whole or in part at your monthly meetings, or better yet, mail any part of it to the members who are unable to make the meeting...SOAR mem-

bers want to hear from their union, especially on issues that directly concern items of interest to retirees.

Newsletter Deadline

No final decision has been made as to frequency for this “Chapter Connection” newsletter. However, our next issue will be in January, 2010, and the deadline for articles and/or photos will be December 15, 2009

Charlie Averill

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Vale-Inco- Holding Canadian Pensioners Hostage!

Sudbury and Port Colborne, Ontario.

Vale Inco, a Brazilian owned multi national company, purchased Inco in Canada in 2006; this is their first time bargaining an agreement with the USW. The company en-tered negotiations with major con-cessions and demands for two tier

wages and benefits, major changes to seniority rights and a defined contribution pension plan for new hires. After many months of unsuccessful bargaining, which included an offer from the union on a stand pat agree-ment, the company had not agreed to any substantial changes and held firm to their position that the Cana-dian operations were unsustainable and major changes were required to the collective agreements. This, de-spite the fact that Vale had made in its first two years of ownership over $4 billion from its Ontario opera-tions alone, more than double what Inco had made in the 10 years of ownership prior to Vale purchasing it. This hugely profitable company is sitting on a war chest of $22 billion.

On July 13, the 3100 workers at Vale Inco operations in Sudbury, local 6500 and the 120 workers in Port Colborne, Ontario, Local 6200 went on strike. They were followed shortly after by the 450 workers at Vales operation in Voisey’s Bay, Newfoundland, local 9508, all members of the USW. This strike is about foreign owned companies attempting to impose their values and culture on ours, the quality of life in our communities and standard of living of our members, which were achieved through the sharing of the results of our labour with the community, and the employer. These are sustainable and livable communities because the union fought for good jobs and pensions and still allowed the company to make huge profits. The em-ployer wants to take that away and is using the present downturn in the economy to attempt to justify their actions.

On August 12, Vale spokesperson Steve Ball an-nounced that the company would be withholding a scheduled increase in pension payments for a group of Vale-Inco pensioners until the strike was resolved. The increase, which was slated to go to pensioners that had retired from Vale- Inco before 1988 was part of a side fund created by the USW and Inco management through previous negotiations to help pensioners keep up with rising consumer prices. In total the increase would cost the company about $5 per month per pen-sioner.

Additionally, Ball announced that if the strike is not settled by Christmas, the company will be with-holding a planned $1000 increase to an annual payment to widows of pensioners’ that retired be-fore 1972.

Now these folks, (the pensioners and widows) are not on strike! So it seems that Vale management is hold-ing back on the increases to try to punish the entire community for the strike.

The Vale management team apparently has no problem penalizing 70, 80 or 90 year old pensioners who have given decades of service to this company and this community.

So Shame on Vale!!!!! The USW, local 6500 and local 6200 and the Steelworkers Organization of Active Re-tirees (SOAR) chapters 6-02 in Sudbury and 6-18 in Niagara Falls are selling tee shirts to raise funds for these pensioners and widows.

You can purchase shirts or make a donation by contacting USW Local 6500 union hall at 705-675-3381 or Local 6200 union hall at 905-835-8542. For more information on the unions international fight back campaign against Vale Inco, visit www.FairDealNow.ca

Doug MacPherson, National Coordinator

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District 4 ReportWe continue to address the BUY AMERICAN Resolution in District 4 by getting as many of our active union members and retirees involved with the issue. Diane Pavlik, a SOAR Representative for Chapter 4-6, was involved with over 100 school districts in western New York in sponsoring Buy American Resolutions in their

respective school districts. Diane has expended a great deal of effort and mileage in visiting school officials throughout District 4. We are still hoping that the NY State Senate and Assembly will support a Buy American Resolution for the state. There are so many American jobs at stake. Iff we don't wake up the American people, surely thousands more American jobs will be lost to foreign imports. So the struggle goes on and on!!! You can do your part by having your local SOAR Chapter members contact their respective Congressman and ask them to help us save American jobs in manufacturing in the United States. It may only take 5 minutes of their time to make a telephone call to their congressional representative but the results will come back to us like silver bullets. In reality we may be saving a relative or friend's job in America today. So don't

hesitate--------Let us all pick up the phone and call our congressperson today!!!!!!

Jim Bickhart, Executive Board Member

District 12 Report

When President Obama signed the Stimulus Bill, I like most of us, saw nothing but good in this bill. The bill is providing money for many needed projects throughout our country. The USW immediately started submitting resolutions to Cities and Counties asking them to agree to use only USA made goods in these stimulus projects which would in turn keep or put our people to work.Since I work in the political field I wanted to see our party support this resolution and use its influence to encourage support by our people involved in business and jobs decisions.The Gardena Valley Democratic Club as well as the Los Angeles County and California Democratic Party adopted the Buy American Resolution and sent letters to all the cities where members reside.In August, when the DNC Western Caucus met in Worley, Idaho, both the Idaho AFL-CIO and the Utah Democratic Party adopted the resolution with no opposition.I then submitted the Resolution to the DNC for consideration at the DNC meeting in Austin, Texas. 15 days be-fore the meeting I received several phone calls from DNC Staff urging me to withdraw the resolu-tion stating that the DNC could not do a resolution that was in opposition to policies of the Presi-dent. I replied, "the President signed the Stimulus Package..how could he be opposed?" I told them I would not withdraw the resolution. They wanted to make sure that no laws would be violated. After a few changes in wording, we were all in agreement. The resolution was adopted at the General Session the following day. The DNC is made up of many factions, some who in fact don’t care about Labor Issues and are "Free Traders". That is why, we have to be involved, caring and persistent.

“Big Red” Rankin, Executive Board Member

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PACE Division ReportHEALTH CARE AND THE FAILURE OF THE MEDIA

At a time we needed it the most the mainstream media failed us, and actual lies and misstatements were perpetrated by some cable networks to deny meaningful and effective Health Care reform. Like so many of us at SOAR, I have been monitoring and working on meaningful health care reform

for many years, and particularly a Medicare for all (Sin-gle Payer) system. I was convinced that after decades of efforts and the Clinton failure of the early 90’s, resulting in an expensive broken health care system that cost many Americans their lives and financial ruin, meaningful health care reform would happen. It was just a matter of what form the re-form would take place. The Harry and Louise anti health care reform commer-cials of the early 90’s were effective, and helped prevent Health Care reform and everything they scared people about actually happened, but we didn’t get universal health care reform, or for that matter any health care re-form. The insurance, pharmaceutical companies and other spe-cial interest groups were also aware that health care re-form was going to happen. A two phased counter attack was launched by them. One, get at the table to influence what form the change would take to protect their interests and two, support an attack through right wing groups along with conservatives to undermine efforts at mean-ingful change, including a public option. To me, it was shocking to see people at town hall meet-ings protesting health care reform efforts and seniors pro-testing the government’s involvement in their health care not recognizing that – Medicare is a government program, a social single payer system. This makes me wonder, if we didn’t have Social Security and Medicare today what kind of fight would we have to get it? How did we ever get to this point? Well, millions of dollars are being spent by special interest groups, and cer-tain Conservative groups have developed an attack ma-chine intended to mislead, lie and scare people about health care reform.

We then were bombarded with such propaganda, such as; death panels, rationing of care, cuts in Medicare bene-fits, waiting lines, the government coming between you and your doctor, etc. and of course the alleged faults with the Canadian system, which polls show Canadians are happy with. All lies or misstatements, while our insurance costs are sky rocketing, 47 million have no health care coverage and 45 million Americans die each year because they don’t have coverage. That’s 5 people per hour, 122 per day, and all of us paying a hidden tax due to our dys-functional Health Care system. When this started the media not only allowed these lies to continue uncorrected for a couple of weeks, but some even repeated them. No meaningful, accurate or quality discussion or debate took place for weeks. While thousands across the country demonstrated for meaningful health care reform, all we saw were a few misinformed or people with a special in-terest protesting health care reform at town hall meetings.The media failed the country on a health, life and death issues and economic health care issues that affects all of us at the most critical time. The good news is that this is changing due to the efforts of our Union and all activists who are supporting effec-tive, meaningful Health Care for all. As people get the truth without the distortions and lies, they support the same reform efforts that we at the USW are promoting, including a “public option.” Recent polls show that at least 61% of the country supports a Public Option and some polls are as high as 75%. We must keep our representatives in Congress aware that we are paying attention and expect them to support meaningful reform:

• A Strong Public Option

• No taxing of insurance benefits• All employers contribute• Control costs

• Guaranteed coverage for all• Hold insurance companies responsible

We must all remember two important things:1. This is about Health Care for all, not insurance.2. The costs of doing nothing will cost all of us and is being paid by all of us.

Bill Gibbons, Executive Board Member

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Jerry Edwards, District 3 Executive Board Member Jerry Edwards is the SOAR board member in District 3 (Yukon Territory, Northwest Terri-tory, Nunavut Territory, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba). Jerry Edwards worked 14 years at IPSCO, one of the world’s leading producers of steel plate and pipe before becoming a USWA Staff Representative. He retired in 1998 and became a member of SOAR. Jerry resides in Pitt Meadows, British Columbia.

Jerry has served as President of the South Saskatchewan Labor Council. He was Area Council President in Regina, Saskatchewan, Treasurer of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labor, Director of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission and he served on the New Democratic Party (NDP) Provincial Executive in Saskatchewan and B.C.. He was also a Trainer in the “Back to the Local Program”.

Jerry has been a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) (now known as the New Democratic Party (NDP)) since 1948. He is president of the NDP Executive of the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Provincial Constituency.

Jerry was a Heavy Equipment Operator and worked on the Trans-Canada highway and the Trans-Canada pipeline.

In 1990, Jerry was presented with the SOAR Pioneer Award by President, Lynn Williams.

Jerry Edwards19302 116A AvenuePitt Meadows, BCCanada, V3Y 1E4

Jim Bickhart, District 4 Executive Board Member

Jim Bickhart is the SOAR board member in District 4 (State(s): CT, DE, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, VT and Puerto Rico). Jim lives in Dunkirk, New York. He retired from Al-tech Specialty Steel Company in Dunkirk where he was an Assistant Pulpit Operator. Jim was the PAC Coordinator for his district. He was also president of USW Local 2693 from 1979 to 1985 before going on Staff and retired after 18 years in that position.

Jim retired as president of the Dunkirk area labor council in 2005 after serving for 30 years.

Jim was in the United States Navy. Three years active and twenty one years in the Re-serves.

He works part time with the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM).

“I spend most of my time working with SOAR and on AAM activities to help our retirees receive all the benefits they are entitled to after all their years of working to make America a better place to live.”

Jim Bickhart 133 South Martin Street Dunkirk, NY  14048

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To All Of Our SOAR Chapters

Without a doubt, as you can see from the articles in this newsletter, health insurance reform in the United States, and maintaining and improving the healthcare system in Canada is the number one issue for all SOAR members.

At the same time, we must not forget that one of the purposes of SOAR is to “better the communities in which we live”. Health insurance reform would of course better our communities, but we must not forget the other needs that so many people have, and there are many.

I know from visiting various chapters that SOAR is very much answering this call by replenishing food pantries, supporting union members that find themselves on strike or locked out of their jobs and in so many other ways.

My own chapter donates $100 each month to a different food pantry or other non profit organization that fits in with our policies.

One of the nicest responses was our donation last month to the USO (United Service Organization). The USO is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the troops by providing morale, welfare and recreation-type services to our men and women in uniform. The original intent of Congress — and enduring style of USO delivery — is to represent the American people by extending a touch of home to the military. The USO currently operates more than 135 centers worldwide, including ten mobile canteens located in the conti-nental United States and overseas.

Please don’t forget to mail in the Chapter Officers form on pages 11 and 12 of this newsletter.

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Health Insurance Reform – Where We Stand“You can't even think about negotiating for a wage increase because the whole negotiation isabout trying to keep the benefits you already have. That’s not just the fault of the employer. It'sthe fault of a broken health care system that's sucking up all the money." – President ObamaOur union believes health care for all is the civil rights issue of our time. And the moment foraction is now.

We support a plan with these essential components:

�Affordable options and reform of insurance practices that will result in health care for allAmericans.

�A public option that will lower costs by competing with the private sector and offercoverage for Americans who cannot afford alternatives.

�No taxation for employer-provided insurance and rules to ensure big employers retaincoverage.

�Shared responsibility by requiring all employers to provide coverage, also known as “payto play.”

�Significant cost containment to help families, retirees, businesses and our governments.

�A federally funded catastrophic reinsurance program to help employers and VEBAs thatprovide benefits for pre-Medicare retirees ages 55-64.

For more information, visit www.usw.org/healthcare

A Letter For All AmericansJuly 24, 2009To:Barack H. Obama, President of the United StatesKathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human ServicesAll members of the U.S. House of RepresentativesAll members of the U.S. Senate

Dear Friends,

I am writing to you on behalf of the 340,000 members of the National Union of Public and General Employees (Canada) about the scurrilous misrepresentations of Canada and our single-payer health system in the debate over the future of health care in the United States.

We applaud you for reopening the national discussion of health care reform in the U.S. There are various policy proposals on the table and you’ll have important decisions to make in the months ahead. As legislators, it’s critical that you use the best available evidence to inform your decisions.

Unfortunately, rather than a true debate about its merits, Canada’s single-payer system, and by extension Can-ada’s reputation, has been the victim of a multi-million dollar tidal wave of special-interest propaganda and scare tactics. You need to know that an objective examination of the evidence reveals that Canada’s single-payer health system is the triumph of values and economics.

Our system speaks volumes about the character of our nation. It provides all Canadians with equal access to care on the basis of need, not wealth or privilege or status. Previous generations understood that sickness doesn’t discriminate and they made the collective moral decision that health care shouldn’t discriminate either. It was a courageous initiative by visionary men and women that changed us as a nation and cemented our role as one of the world’s compassionate societies. We will always defend the proud legacy we have inherited from previous generations of Canadians.

Indeed, Canadians today still strongly support the core values on which our system is premised - equality, com-passion and solidarity. In fact, our Medicare system is now tied to our understanding of citizenship. More than just a social program, Medicare to us represents a birthright and an identifying mark of “Canadian-ness”. It is, we believe, the clearest reflection of who we are and what we value.

But more than that, our single-payer system is, quite simply, a good and sensible idea that serves Canadians ex-tremely well. The overheated rhetoric and outright falsehoods that you’ve heard about the quality and viability of Canada’s system simply do not stand up to scrutiny.

When it comes to health outcomes, on almost every critical measure, whether it is life expectancy rates, infant mortality rates, or potential years of lost life, Canada rates much better than the U.S. and we’re among the best in the world. Notwithstanding the “real life” stories you’ve heard in TV ads launched by the group Patients United Now, a very strong majority of Canadians who use the system are highly satisfied with the quality and standard of care they receive.

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In terms of controlling costs, health spending in Canada is on par with most countries in the Western world and it’s substantially lower than in the U.S. And yet we devote a smaller portion of Gross Domestic Product to health care today than we did over a decade ago. It’s totally unthinkable to Canadians to experience bankruptcy due to medical bills, as do over one million Americans every year. Unlike in the U.S., not a single Canadian who is unemployed has lost the ability to access health care during the current economic recession.

In addition, our single-payer system provides both small and large businesses in Canada with a clear competi-tive advantage. Employers don’t have to provide basic health care for their workers, our single-payer system does that. Our businesses also enjoy the benefits of a healthier and more productive workforce thanks to our universal system. Unlike in the U.S. where basic health care is a major source of labour relations strife, it’s hardly an issue at the bargaining table in Canada. We also enjoy greater labour mobility because workers who don’t have to worry about losing health benefits are more willing and able to switch jobs and move to where the work is.

Finally, what you’re being told about government-run health care with patients suffering and dying on wait lists is nothing but lies. No need for emergency or urgent care is ever neglected in Canada. If your doctor says you need the care urgently, you get it, period. Moreover, Statistics Canada reports that the median wait time for elective surgery is four weeks and the median wait time for diagnostic imaging like MRIs is three weeks. And contrary to popular myth, we’re free to choose whatever doctor we want. And all decisions about care and treatment are left to patients and their doctors, there’s no interference by the government or private insurance companies.

An objective review of the evidence shows that Canada’s single-payer system has consistently delivered afford-able, timely, accessible, comprehensive and high-quality care to the overwhelming majority of Canadians on the basis of need, not wealth. It has also contributed to our international competitiveness and the productivity of our workforce.

Times of great need, we are told, are the times when true leaders emerge and display the ability to separate fact from fiction and the courage to set aside political agendas for the sake of the common good. The challenge fac-ing health care reform in the U.S. demands that kind of ability and courage from each of you.

I would be pleased to speak or meet with you at anytime, or if you’re interested we could arrange a “study mis-sion” to Canada, to ensure you have an accurate picture of the benefits and popularity of Canada’s most cher-ished social program. Please do not hesitate to contact my office.

Sincerely,

James Clancy, PresidentNational Union of Public and General Employees

“Fixing our healthcare system as a whole is our primary challenge, and to make it happen you need to get engaged – to pound the pavement, get your hands dirty, endure real sacrifice, take on antiquated thinking and help lead the public debate.”Senator John Kerry

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