Health Care, 1989-1994

File — Box: 12, Folder: 2

Scope and Contents

See also Committee for National Health Insurance 1984-1991; see also AFL-CIO Health Care Memos from Mazur to ILGWU directors urging support of campaign; letter to Mazur from John Sweeney, chairman, AFL-CIO Health Care Committee, with attached summary of Senate Labor-Finance Working Group Proposal on Health Care Reform, May 23, 1991; memo from Mazur to AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland criticizing the Senate Democratic leadership health care proposal as severely inadequate, June 4, 1991; analyses of Senate working group proposal; memo to Mazur from ILGWU legislative director Evelyn Dubrow re Policy and Legislation meeting on the Single Payer Health Care Campaign, March 11, 1991; agenda of meeting of AFL-CIO Health Care Committee, with attached fact sheet, February 18, 1991; AFL-CIO statement on health care reform, February 19, 1991; summaries of proposed legislation, S. 1669, “Improvements to the Health America Act of 1991,” by Sens. Paul Simon and Brock Abrams, and H.R. 3205, “Health Insurance and Cost Containment Act of 1991,” by Rep. Dan Rostenkowski; report and recommendations of the AFL-CIO Executive Council Committee on Health Care: The American Single-Payer National Health Care Plan, February 18, 1991; white paper, “The Permanent Replacement of Workers Striking over Health Care Benefits in 1990,” prepared by the AFL-CIO Department of Employee Benefits, June 1991; “Additional Views on Health Care Recommendations of the [1991] Social Security Advisory Council [Commitment to Change: Foundations for Reform],” submitted by John Sweeney and others; Citizen Action report, “The Seven Warning Signs: Health Insurance at Risk,” with cover press release, June 19, 1991; Citizen Action Health Care Alert newsletters, May and June 1991; remarks by AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland to the American Medical Association National Leadership Conference, February 17, 1991; statement on the National Healthcare Insurance Program Act by Jack Sheinkman, president, ACTWU, March 6, 1991; AFL-CIO press releases calling for reform, 1991; National Planning Association newsletter Looking Ahead, with lead article, “Reforming the Nation’s Critically Ill Health Care System,” March 1991; letter to the editor from Warren Greenberg, professor of health economics, George Washington University, “National Health Insurance Benefits Everyone,” February 11, 1991 (New York Times?); letter to Mazur from Coalition of Labor Union Women re campaign to pass veto-proof legislation reversing gag-rule against abortion counseling for low-income women, June 13, 1991; summary of Harris survey of leaders of key stakeholder groups, “Trade-Offs and Choices: Health Policy Options for the 1990’s”; description of proposed New Jersey Universal Health Care Plan, October 10, 1990; congressional resolution recognizing historic significance of the ILGWU Union Health Center, September 26, 1989; letter to Mazur from Douglas Fraser, Committee for National Health Insurance, summarizing attached article from Health Management Quarterly by Dr. Robert Blendon, Harvard School of Public Health, March 2, 1989

Dates

1989-1994

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

The ILGWU Records, except for publications and materials produced for publication, are restricted. Materials created prior to twenty years from the current date are open to researchers only with prior written permission from the Director of the Kheel Center; materials created during the past twenty-years are closed; the minutes of the General Executive Board are closed. For more information contact the Kheel Center.