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Every man, woman and child should have healthcare

ElizabethKucinich
The only way to get there is to have a single-payer, not-for-profit health care system.
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  • spoon
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    • Please ask Dennis to take back his support of Obama. American lives depend upon it, and Dennis's support will mislead people into thinking Obama's health care plan is real when it is a total, deviously deceptive sham.

    • 4 years ago
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    • As a small business owner whose very life depends upon real (not fake) health care reform, I have done my research on this issue (please trust me). Obama represents the Audacity of False Hope on health care. Specifically, his plan says health insurers would have to "JUSTIFY" charging large premium differences...as if financial discrimination against people when they are sick and at their most vulnerable is justifiable at all. That's all the insurers need to keep us at their mercy, and THEY HAVE NONE. With friends like this who needs enemies? Other legislation he supports says the rest of us will have access to the same health care plan as he and other members of Congress have "except for the way (we) are rated" (sigh). He leaves that part out but I'm pretty sure he knows it's in there, and neglects to mention that federal employee plans cost more than the $12,100/year national average. I'm pretty sure Obama knows that too. Hillary's plan says insurance companies will be prohibited from charging "large" premium differences based on "modified" community rating, whatever that means, but do understand it is the only loophole health insurance companies need. SHAME on them. Both Obama and Clinton swear they will NOT support Single Payer (Single Pool*) and insist profit-driven health insurance middlemen must be part of any solution. (*I prefer framing it as Single Pool, using the consumer rather than administrative picture. Single Payer means Single Pool.) John Edwards's plan says insurers will have to charge "fair" premiums, which admittedly is a bit wishy-washy too, but at least his rhetoric says that he believes Single Payer (Single Pool) is obviously the best way to go, that the inordinate greed of insurance companies is the main part of the problem (which it is), and if forced to work on a level playing field, health insurers will lose (which they will). But HERE IS THE IMPORTANT PART: Edwards is the only one of the top three that even wants to create a level playing field with REAL (not fake) community rating and guaranteed issue. The difference is Edwards "gets" what needs to be done while Obama and Clinton don't. Both (and all the Republicans running) want us to believe that the problem is the solution when it isn't. American lives and the future of our economy depend upon voters not being too busy to notice or care about the devil in their details. Edwards is the only viable candidate running for President who is even headed in the right direction. All the others are guilty of misleading on real health care reform, and we simply cannot afford to be misled any longer.

    • 4 years ago
  • spoon
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    • The health insurance game is rigged for insurers better than Vegas is rigged for casino owners. I don't undrstand why Kucinich asked his supporters to support Obama, though, when Obama's and Hillary's health care reform plans iare so deviously misguided.

    • 4 years ago
  • spoon
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    • Why aren't Hillary and Barak advocating this? They promised they would NOT support Single Payer (or uniting Americans into one protective group) at the Iowa debate (in which Dennis was not allowed to participate). I noticed that MEGA health insurance sponsored ads on CNN during one of its televised Democratic Presidential debates (where Dennis was not asked or allowed to answer a question on health care or insurance). Google that company some time for a real eye opener. Here's another interesting link....http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4025709&affil=wls

    • 4 years ago
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