If you like what ACORN did to create the housing credit crisis, you'll love how they'll create health care 'equality.'

Less than 48 hours after polls closed November 4, 2008, a retreat was held by the Health Care for America NOW coalition to begin planning for health care reform in Barack Obama's first year as president. 

The coalition, comprised of hundreds of organizations including SEIU and ACORN, received a briefing from Democratic pollster Celinda Lake, in which she suggested the appropriate terminology and course of action to succeed in moving America towards a socialized-medicine form of health care in the United States. 

Her presentation, which can be found here, noted: 

While the concept of big, inefficient government remains a vulnerability for reform advocates, the Wall Street bailout presents an opportunity to rebrand “free market” principles and to galvanize support for regulatory reforms.

ACORN's role in the HCAN coalition cannot be downplayed.  According to this spreadsheet of state-based HCAN contacts, 20 of the 91 contacts are with ACORN.  ACORN is pushing government-run healthcare and its coalition is backing up the push with millions for lobbying and TV ads.  According to The Hill, HCAN is planning to spend up to $35 million to pass Canadian-style government-run healthcare.

HCAN is being run by Richard Kirsch.  According to whorunsgov.com, a website operated by the Washington Post, three of Kirsch's four "Key Associates" include Andy Stern, president of SEIU, Patrick Gaspard, White House political director and former staffer for SEIU and ACORN, and Rahm Emanuel, chief of staff for President Obama.

ACORN is a part of at least two pro-government-run healthcare coalitions: HCAN and Healthcare Equality Project, which appears to be spearheaded by SEIU.  The "National Campaign Coordinator," Sinsi Hernandez-Cancio, is also a Senior Policy Analyst for SEIU, according to its latest LM-2 financial report.  Here is the snippet showing that, from page 152:

On March 24, 2009, Healthcare Equality Project was launched in Washington, DC and one representative of the coalition summed up the mission in a YouTube video:

"It really is health care quality for all.  It really is access and inclusion for everyone.  A system of health care reform can't just be for those who can afford it--it can't just be for those who were born here."

Born here?  Is she implying anyone that can make it across America’s border should receive “free” health care, paid for by us?

ACORN's partner group, the SEIU, pledged, by the summer of 2009, to "proudly join our Canadian brothers and sisters to be a nation that guarantees affordable health care for every man, woman and child."   On the description of the YouTube video, SEIU is pushing for "providing universal health care."

And don't think it won't happen.  President Obama yielded the floor at a February 2009 meeting to SEIU president Andy Stern for his thoughts on healthcare reform.  In the White House, SEIU carries a lot of weight.  After all, a former SEIU lobbyist is the Political Director.  Additionally, according to Wade Rathke, White House Political Director Patrick Gaspard is also a former political operative of New York ACORN.

SEIU is investing millions in getting a government takeover of health care passed.  Just look at this agenda from an organizational meeting for a rally in North Dakota, first made public by SayAnythingBlog.

ACORNcracked.com tracked down ACORN founder Wade Rathke at a book signing to ask him some questions about his book and the push for the government takeover of healthcare.  This is our exclusive video:

The Washington Post published a story in November 2008 pointing out the hypocracy of Obama appointed registered lobbyists to administration positions, after pledging he wouldn't.

Transition spokesman Dan Pfeiffer told the Post Gaspard would "recuse [himself] from the fields of policy or agencies [he] lobbied in the previous 12 months."

It is laughable to suggest the Office of Political Affairs in the White House would be AWOL in attempting to foist a $1.5 trillion health care plan on the American people.

Liberal author and commentator Bill Press has identified 10 Democrats in the Senate that "are reluctant to embrace the public plan option" pushed by SEIU, ACORN, and others.

 

He cites an article from The Hill, in which the Healthcare for America Now coalition is spending upwards of $23 million on TV ads targeting senators on the Finance Committee.

And just when you thought there would be ‘equality?’  Bloomberg.com reports SEIU and the AFL-CIO want union-negotiated health benefits exempt from the reform.

So not only is any sort of healthcare reform a giveaway to Obama’s liberal allies, but it’s an opportunity for organized labor to seek key exemptions that will hammer everyone else.