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SEIU chief Andy Stern enjoys 'unusual' access to the White House -
- he visits weekly and says “We get heard.”
They led the most powerful forces in healthcare -- the trade groups representing doctors, insurance companies, hospitals and drug makers. Any one of them could stall, if not derail, President Obama's hopes of overhauling the U.S. healthcare system.
Instead, they stood with Obama before TV cameras at the White House and pledged their cooperation. For Obama, the show of unity gave momentum to perhaps his most ambitious domestic goal.
But the moment was a victory, as well, for another man invited to the event that morning in May - Andy Stern, who heads the SEIU. The SEIU spent $60 million to help elect Obama. Stern said the group deployed 100,000 volunteers during the campaign, including 3,000 who worked on the election full time.
With nearly 2 million members, the SEIU says it has people in 13 states whose senators are considered important targets in the lobbying effort behind the emerging Democratic healthcare bill.
The union wants to 'coax' those senators into voting for the bill...
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- he visits weekly and says “We get heard.”
They led the most powerful forces in healthcare -- the trade groups representing doctors, insurance companies, hospitals and drug makers. Any one of them could stall, if not derail, President Obama's hopes of overhauling the U.S. healthcare system.
Instead, they stood with Obama before TV cameras at the White House and pledged their cooperation. For Obama, the show of unity gave momentum to perhaps his most ambitious domestic goal.
But the moment was a victory, as well, for another man invited to the event that morning in May - Andy Stern, who heads the SEIU. The SEIU spent $60 million to help elect Obama. Stern said the group deployed 100,000 volunteers during the campaign, including 3,000 who worked on the election full time.
With nearly 2 million members, the SEIU says it has people in 13 states whose senators are considered important targets in the lobbying effort behind the emerging Democratic healthcare bill.
The union wants to 'coax' those senators into voting for the bill...
READ MORE
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