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PPACA Turns Two: Will It Survive?

March 23 marks the two-year anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Its passage culminated an extraordinary two-year debate over healthcare policy that helped to launch new movements for healthcare justice and challenged labor and other social movements to think strategically about what it would take to win universal, affordable, guaranteed healthcare for everyone in America. During these debates, the AFL-CIO declared that, "Whatever the outcome of the current debate over healthcare reform in the 111th Congress, the task of establishing healthcare as a human right, not a privilege, will still lay before us." Today, we call on all of labor to rededicate itself to this principle.

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After Mayday: Make Wall Street Pay

While Mayday is not yet universally celebrated by the U.S. labor movement, this year's holiday did mark the beginning of a spring revival of activism on the part of the Occupy movement and its labor allies. We welcome this revival because the right to healthcare is central to the struggle of the 99%. Single-payer Medicare-for-All is part of the high road solution to the economic and fiscal crisis facing working people.

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Sustaining the Movement for the 99%
Statement by the Steering Committee of the Labor Campaign for Single-Payer

This autumn has been witness to an extraordinary moment in American history as the Occupy Wall Street movement swept the nation and gave voice to a widespread anger at corporate greed and raging inequality. With winter approaching, and more and more cities sending police to physically assault and clear out their outdoor encampments, it is time to take stock of the achievements and prospects of this movement.

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