Greetings,

 The MFT Executive Board recently passed a motion to support single payer health care.

We are exploring the options that are currently being presented to the Minnesota legislators.  More information on this effort will follow.

Meanwhile, see the American Federation of Teachers email below sent out nationwide to all its affiliates. Please take the time to respond to this VERY important request.  We MUST fix healthcare in this nation before it bankrupts us.

Thank you.

Lynn Nordgren
MFT President

Dear AFT Members,

Now is the time for real healthcare reform! Never has the political will been so strong nor the need so great. The commitment to make overdue changes is widespread?from President Obama to our leaders in Congress to activists like you.

To maintain our momentum, we must continue to press our case in the media, and in cities and towns across the country. To build the case for healthcare reform we need additional information: real stories and experience-based recommendations from people like you.

Your voice is critical. Take the 2009 Health Care for America Survey and tell us your story at http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/K7aawdF1ncZT/.

Congress is preparing for a major healthcare reform debate this summer. As lawmakers begin to draft reform legislation--and even before they start--it is critical that they hear from working families about how the healthcare system works (or fails to work) today.

Please make your voice heard by completing this survey, telling your healthcare story, and encouraging your friends, co-workers and family members to do so, too. We'll share the compiled survey results with national and state leaders and the media.

Take the survey now and tell your story! Visit http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/K7aawdF1ncZT/.

In this great country, no one should go without healthcare.

In solidarity,

AFT e-Activist Network