A Rally for Health Care Reform in Downtown Nashville

Cover America Now will hold a rally next Monday prior to the presidential debate to push for health care reform. The rally -- you'll find the details here -- will take place 4 to 7 p.m. on October 6 on Legislative Plaza in downtown Nashville.

If you go to this, please take some pics and write us a post.

National health care works in Canada, and it could work in U.S., too

The United States spends at least 40 percent more per capita on health care than any other industrialized nation ($7,129/capita).

We spend 16 percent of our gross domestic product while other industrial countries spend about 10 percent (i.e., Canada). In Canada, everyone is covered while we have 47 million uninsured people and probably 100 million underinsured. Read more…

SEIU Now and Then: May Democracy Be With You

The internal struggle and accelerating debate within the SEIU over union democracy is a positive and encouraging development. While democracy, dissent and member empowerment are on the horizon in SEIU and even in vogue in West Coast locals, it wasn't always so. A reform movement and the uprising of Public Employees for a democratic Union within the former L790 serves as a case study.

Rob Russell for Tennessee’s 1st District Read more…