I would love a single-payer system because I could find a good doctor and I wouldn't have to change if I change jobs. Under the current system, I've had to change doctors several times, because my work-sponsored insurance plans have each had their own provider network. That makes it harder to get quality care.
Representative Anthony Weiner has proposed an amendment to extend Medicare coverage to all Americans. If our Representatives care about our health, they will support the Weiner amendment for single-payer healthcare.
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( 2.9 / 19 )You need to see the Bill Moyers Journal from July 10th. He interviewed Wendell Potter, former head of Public Relations for CIGNA. The other parts of the episode are linked on the right side under Also this week.
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( 2.9 / 24 )We are coming down to the wire on healthcare reform work before the August Congressional recess, and to listen to President Obama and Congressional leaders you’d think it was a now or never sort of deadline. We in PDA and many other advocacy groups that support a progressively financed, single standard of high quality healthcare for all need not participate in all the hand-wringing about this campaign cycle driven calendar for healthcare reform.
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( 2.9 / 26 )Hold out for single payer
By Nick Skala
The following remarks were presented to the Congressional Progressive Caucus on June 4.
Today the Congressional Progressive Caucus faces a choice. That choice is whether Members should maintain their unflinching support for single-payer, or to accede to intense political pressure to support the plan currently being developed in Congress under the direction of President Obama: a mandate for Americans to purchase an insurance plan from a massive new regulatory "exchange," with one plan potentially being a "public option."
The difference between these choices could not be more stark: single-payer has at its core the elimination of U.S.-style private insurance, using huge administrative savings and inherent cost control mechanisms to provide comprehensive, sustainable universal coverage.
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( 2.8 / 21 )I can't believe the AMA came out against a public health insurance option . It reminds me of the Phil Ochs song I've heard many times before, but up until today I hadn't seen the full truth behind it.
On the other hand, on These Days this morning, freshman Republican Congressman Duncan D. Hunter was asked about a government plan in competition with private insurance and said he opposes a public option because, "It's a taxpayer paid-for government program, which means that people who pay for their own insurance, private insurance, are gonna be taxed so that people that want the government version can have that. So they're gonna be paying double basically so why not just have everybody go to that government program, which a lot of people are going to do." That sounds like a single-payer argument to me! He went on to say, "I don't think it's the right way to go to have taxpayer funded public healthcare competing with private healthcare because there's no way that private can actually win. I don't think it's going to make it more competitive because government doesn't have to make a profit... They don't have to make money on it."
So his big argument agains the public option is that it will be more competitive than private insurers and cut into their profits!
The private insurance companies have a lot of friends in this debate. I just hope Max Baucus and the others can remember that they work for us, the patients, and not for the insurance company executives and shareholders.
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( 2.5 / 11 )Would you believe, they're finally talking about single payer health care in DC! Today the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee held a hearing on Examining the Single Payer Health Care Option. Videos are available here .
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( 3 / 5 )This is a must-see video ! California doesn't have to wait for the rest of the country--we can have our own single-payer healthcare system! Governor Schwarzenegger has vetoed it before, but with so many people losing their insurance "coverage" jobs, the argument for universal coverage is stronger than ever.
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( 1 / 1 )Kitten , kayaking , hiking , and zoo pictures posted on the gallery.
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( 3.6 / 7 )'Grass-roots' effort looks more like Astroturf
http://www.eagletribune.com/punews/loca ... 32149.html
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( 3.2 / 13 )Thanks to Jady Montgomery for sending out this information:
Representative Susan Davis of San Diego did a survey of her constituents in 2008 to see which approach to universal health care coverage they preferred. The three choices were HR 676, which expands Medicare to cover every American; HR 3163, under which states would offer private insurance plans to those not covered by employers; and President Bush's proposal for Americans to receive personal tax deductions for their healthcare costs. The results are as follows:
1% no vote
9% none
12% Bush's plan
27% HR 3163
51% HR 676
Below are the Top 10 reasons to support HR 676, facts about HR 676, and a resolution authored by members of the La Jolla Democratic Club’s Healthcare Reform Focus Group and passed on the floor of the Democratic State Convention, 4/25/09, Sacramento, CA.
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