Universal Single Payer Health Care

I saw 7 commercials against the government option in less than an hour. They are claiming that they are protecting patient rights against government controlled healthcare. This is a blatant fear mongering attack on what is justice for the people; basic healthcare coverage for every citizen.

Fuck all of the naysayers on this issue, they are misleading and outright lying about the results and the consequences.

http://www.guaranteedhealthcare.org/

Check out Nathan Wilkes story. I know him too.

spoon, I agree, the insurance companies seem, presently, to just want to make lots of money and keep the patient in the dark...

We need to embark on the journey to get universal health care in America accomplished now...

This is interesting and useful, but my comment about Heather Grant's statements is that she speaks too fast and I don't understand all of her words.

From David: "Speaking of CNA (California Nurses' Association) - to which I am proud to belong - here is short video of our execuative director talking at the recent labor conference for single payer. I love the way she just cuts through the bull.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJImyDOcimk

----- Original Message -----
From: Karin
To: SiCKO (Universal Health Care - HR 676)
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 5:22 PM
Subject: [SiCKOUniversalHealthCare-HR676] Radio Interview with Michael Lightey of the California Nurses Association

Interview and discussion of the prospects for single payer healthcare, from NY Pacifica Radio (WBAI) yesterday.

Go to their program archives, http://archive.wbai.org/ and scroll down to Thursday, January 15, 2009 5:00 pm,

The name of the program is Behind the News. You can either play or download the audio.

The interview starts around 10 minutes into the hour.

It doesn't matter if it's a "right" or a "priviledge". It just IS right, and what those of us under 65 have now is simply wrong, but this is uniquely true only in America out of all civilized nations.

Asking young people with no health problems how their health coverage is makes no sense. (How would young healthy people have any way of knowing the real answer?) Ask small business owners over 50 and see what responses you get.

My friends' young daughter was diagnosed with leukemia, so their family was singled out and rated up to $48,000/year in premiums alone, not counting co-pays, deductibles and exclusions. (Ask them what they think of their "coverage".) It's not only poor people who are being discriminated against by health insurers (resulting in health care injustice). It's sick people in small groups no matter what their income, and it's unnecessarily killing over 101,000 Americans each and every year (according to a report financed by the Commonwealth Fund and published in "Health Affairs").

Profit-driven health unsurers are wasting and diverting hundreds of billions of our health care dollars away from desperately needed care, more than enough to cover every American from cradle to grave and still have hundreds of billions of dollars left over each and every year.

So even if you have private, profit-driven health coverage, it's costing you at least twice as much as it by any rights should, and because of it millions have to go without any. There is SO much wrong with our profit-driven health unsurance non-system it's not funny.

The only thing I wish is that we would stop calling what we need "Single Payer". It's more of a "United Protection" kind of a thing. Uniting ALL Americans into one not-for-profit coverage pool utilizing privately provided care (like Medicare only expanded and improved) under one set of non-discriminatory rules would make it simpler, less expensive by far, more humane, and possible for eveyone to have the best care at the best prices with the most transparency.

It's really a "no brainer" except the health unsurance industry has and uses bazillions of our health care dollars to convince us otherwise. Please wise up, America. Real (innocent) people are really dieing while we fiddle.

If only we the sheeple understood health care as they understand cell phone plans or how many songs you can download on an IPod.
The Insurance Companies are the biggest whores on the face of the earth. Why do they even exist?
Blue Cross was originally started by a group of doctors to help poor folks. What the hell happened?

"I propose, that a single-payer non-for-profit, current.com video be a basic right to all mankind, and especially for all the people Internets!!!"

I'm a player for single payer...

The questions in the begining are about single payer health care. Nobody even knows what it is.

The multipayer comment was meant just to make people aware of the other options out there. Poor editing on my part. Thanks for the feedback.

Thought it said "single player"... multiplayer health care would be interesting.

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