From Carolina Journal’s Dan Way:

The League of Women Voters supports a national universal health care system, and in support of that aim one of its North Carolina units has created a speakers bureau that is offering public presentations with information on the Affordable Care Act and training public librarians to answer questions about the law.

A description of the next public session sponsored by its Durham-Orange-Chatham unit, scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday at the Orange County Public Library in Hillsborough, says the “45 minute presentation … is free and open to the public. Representatives from the League of Women Voters will explain the law in a factual, comprehensive, and unbiased way, including the law’s impact on North Carolinians.”

How unbiased the presentations will be could be in the eye of the beholder. The unit’s website includes the following statement:

The League favors a national health insurance plan financed through general taxes in place of individual insurance premiums. As the United States moves towards a national health insurance plan, an employer-based system of health care reform that provides universal access is acceptable to the League.

The League supports administration of the U.S. health care system either by a combination of the private and public sectors or by a combination of federal, state and/or regional government agencies.

The League is opposed to a strictly private, market-based model of financing the health care system. The League also is opposed to the administration of the health care system solely by the private sector or the states.

 

Way also got a revealing comment from Brenda Rogers, president of the Durham-Orange-Chatham unit. (emphasis is  mine).

While the league may not endorse candidates, it’s not bashful about its ideological preferences.

“When you look at what I would call our progressive agenda, you would probably not become a member of our organization” without kindred political leanings, Rogers said. “By the nature of our positions and our history, we attract people who tend to be pretty much in line with the way that we’re [advocating].”

The Obamacare presentations are expected to part of a larger public agenda for the league. “As far as I know, this is the first time that we’ve organized statewide” with a speakers bureau that sends members of the local unit on an educational series of presentations, Rogers said. Additional programs are being considered. The tri-county unit is now attempting to create a similar education/advocacy speakers bureau program on “the voter protection issue” involving voter reform legislation such as Voter ID that were passed in the 2013 session of the General Assembly, Rogers said.