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Mayor Gavin Newsom’s 2008 State of the City health care webisode.

Richard Kirsch, National campaign manager of Health Care for America Now. – - Our campaign, Health Care for America Now, so, weve put together purposefully the biggest unions, so its SEIU and AFSCME, the AFL-CIO, the National Education Association, the Communications Workers, United Food and Commercial Workers; MoveOn and True Majority, the biggest online groups; huge community organizing networks, Center for Community Change and USAction and ACORN; Childrens Defense Fund; womens organizations; and a host of, you know, provider groups, like the American Nurses Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics. And weve got a hundred organizers around the country. Were also organizing small businesses. The New York Times had an article two days ago about small businesses, organized concerns, and a lot of those are members of a new group called Main Street Alliance, who are organizing. So theres a progressive voice for small business to counter the NFIB. So this is a real movement were building, and thats what its going to take to stand up to the insurance industry.

Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) — Jim Horney, director of fiscal policy at the center on Budget and Policy Priorities, talks with Bloomberg’s Mark Crumpton about the outlook for health-care legislation. The 10-year, 8 billion Senate health plan is designed to cover 31 million uninsured Americans and curb medical expenses. Like a measure passed Nov. 7 by the US House, it would require Americans to get health coverage, offering expanded aid for the poor and creating online insurance-purchasing exchanges to help the uninsured buy policies. (Source: Bloomberg)