Major labor union AFL-CIO released a statement on Sen. Max Baucus’s (D-MT) health care reform proposal today.
“Despite months of painful negotiations, the Senate Finance Committee proposal released today absolutely fails to meet the most basic health care needs of working families and it fails to meet the expectations we have set for our nation,” outgoing AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said in a statement, according to The Hill.
“The Senate Finance proposal, sadly, is little more than a throwback to the failed policies of the last three decades that advantaged corporations over taxpayers and bestowed special breaks on the wealthy while ignoring the middle class,” Sweeney said.
“We are counting on finance committee Democrats to fix the bill and side with working families, not insurance companies,” Sweeney said.
