CORE president Dave Parshall addresses educators' healthcare to four million radio listeners across the country

From CORE, August 23, 2008

CORE President Dave Parshall attended the live broadcast of the Ed Shultz Progressive Radio Talk Show Friday at the Plumbers & Pipe Fitters Union Local 170 in Columbus. The event was sponsored partially by OEA. Dave was able to talk with Ed before the show aired. Ed had Mary Jo Kilroy, who is running to fell the U.S. House seat once held by Deborah Price, as a guest. Dave talked to May Jo during the show and was able to tell her about CORE and to give her one of his CORE cards with our web address. Dave stepped to the microphone and made the follow comments to May Jo and to the four million listening audience:

"I am Dave Parshall, President of Concerned Ohio Retired Educators and a long time supporter and member of the Ohio Education Association, which is one of the sponsors of this festival today. We all are working together in support of the Health Care Advocates, trying to save health care for retired educators. Ed, the public doesn’t know that teachers don’t automatically receive complete Social Security or Medicare. We are now in danger of losing our health care in our retirement years as the funds are used up. House Bill 315 was introduced to help educators solve their own health care problem. Your listeners might like to know that while lobbying Ohio house members for H.R. 315 some of the right wingers in our State Legislature told me, 'Dave, Social Security, Medicare and middle class entitlements are a thing of the past -- get over it.' I doubt they tell the folks back home what their true beliefs are. We do need a national solution. Our health care system is ranked 18th in the world and is a house of cards. This should be a national disgrace. Mary Jo, do you support a single payer plan for health care? If not, why not?”

Her response was that Universal Care is part of the Democratic platform and that health care needs to be affordable.