Sentences with phrase «universal health care measure»

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Also at 1:30 p.m., the Assembly Democrats hold a press conference on the New York Health Act universal health care bill before a floor debate and vote on the measure, speaker's conference room, 3rd floor, state Capitol, AHealth Act universal health care bill before a floor debate and vote on the measure, speaker's conference room, 3rd floor, state Capitol, Ahealth care bill before a floor debate and vote on the measure, speaker's conference room, 3rd floor, state Capitol, Albany.

And let's be clear — we need someone who is going to fight for this legislation, not half measures or some ill defined version of universal health care.

With the Affordable Care Act under fire in Washington, Democratic lawmakers in Albany are pushing for a measure creating a single - payer system — universal health cCare Act under fire in Washington, Democratic lawmakers in Albany are pushing for a measure creating a single - payer system — universal health carecare.

So consistent are we in our beliefs that if you hew to the first narrative, I predict you read the New York Times, listen to progressive talk radio, watch CNN, are pro-choice and anti-gun, adhere to separation of church and state, are in favor of universal health care, and vote for measures to redistribute wealth and tax the rich.

If you lean toward the second narrative, I predict you read the Wall Street Journal, listen to conservative talk radio, watch Fox News, are pro-life and anti — gun control, believe America is a Christian nation that should not ban religious expressions in the public sphere, are against universal health care, and vote against measures to redistribute wealth and tax the rich.

Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., pushing for affordable health care for all Americans, calls the measure «a step in the right direction,» but notes that ultimately the feds need «to extend public programs or provide subsidies, such as refundable tax credits or some other means» to have truly universal health coverage.

But even when I am in other communities around the Bay Area, it is the San Francisco Bay Area I live in, measured by the proximity to that marvelous city, home to green building codes, to universal health care, to bans on plastic bags, to mandatory composting, to rainbow flags waving proudly in the Castro breeze, to dog walking on Ocean Beach, to watching a ballgame at AT&T park, to the guy you love and hate at the same time, the great Mayor himself, Mr. Gavin Newsom.

AMA are calling it the «co-payment by stealth» as these measures continue the assault on Australia's universal health care system that began in 2014 with a 24 month extension of the freeze on Medicare rebates after the Abbott Government lost their battle to introduce a GP co-payment.