Comments on: Bait and switch: How the “public option” was sold http://www.healthcare-now.org/bait-and-switch-how-the-%e2%80%9cpublic-option%e2%80%9d-was-sold/ Organizing for a national, single-payer healthcare system. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:42:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Marcia Everett http://www.healthcare-now.org/bait-and-switch-how-the-%e2%80%9cpublic-option%e2%80%9d-was-sold/comment-page-1/#comment-4617 Marcia Everett Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:57:51 +0000 http://www.healthcare-now.org/?p=2470#comment-4617 "WINDOW TREATMENT" our windows are sick- just like us they need HR676- just like us Let's give them a LARGE dose. hang up a HUGE sign that says HR676, and on our car windows too if we can. "HEAL" our windows to HEAL US!! If you have to make the signs for other people DO IT!! Join your zipcode and go door to door http://www.canhi-hr676.ning.com Make a Ribbon that says single payer and wear it. the design is here http://madashelldoctors.com Conduct a "sitout" (for HR676) explanation found here http://www.facebook.com/inbox/readmessage.php?t=1181150058290#/group.php?gid=130262706488&ref=ts Sign petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Bring-Obama-Back-TO-Single-Payer Bring Obama back to SINGLE PAYER petition. Still looking for an official letter writer to draft the letter that will accompany the petition The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. "If we're going to have a successful democratic society, we have to have a well educated and healthy citizenry". - - Thomas Jefferson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2c1SYXyeAg&feature=email http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErUNv87L6B4 “WINDOW TREATMENT”
our windows are sick- just like us
they need HR676- just like us
Let’s give them a LARGE dose. hang up a HUGE sign that says HR676, and on our car windows too if we can. “HEAL” our windows to HEAL US!!

If you have to make the signs for other people DO IT!!

Join your zipcode and go door to door
http://www.canhi-hr676.ning.com

Make a Ribbon that says single payer and wear it. the design is here http://madashelldoctors.com

Conduct a “sitout” (for HR676) explanation found here http://www.facebook.com/inbox/readmessage.php?t=1181150058290#/group.php?gid=130262706488&ref=ts

Sign petition:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Bring-Obama-Back-TO-Single-Payer

Bring Obama back to SINGLE PAYER petition. Still looking for an official letter writer to draft the letter that will accompany the petition

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

“If we’re going to have a successful democratic society, we have to have a well educated and healthy citizenry”.
- – Thomas Jefferson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2c1SYXyeAg&feature=email
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErUNv87L6B4

]]> By: Anthony http://www.healthcare-now.org/bait-and-switch-how-the-%e2%80%9cpublic-option%e2%80%9d-was-sold/comment-page-1/#comment-4406 Anthony Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:30:11 +0000 http://www.healthcare-now.org/?p=2470#comment-4406 Single Payer just makes sense its the easiest thing to do. If the House Dems are worried about re-election, how are they going to get booted out of office by enacting Single Payer? They'll be lifers in the House are you kidding me? I think what will happen is that the Public Option supporters will band together with the Single Payers and push Single Payer through and challenge the Senate to crush it. If the Senate crushes it, well they won't be office much longer, many will call for this heads. But I think even the Bluedogs will be shamed into voting for it. They aren't that Conservative or ARE THEY? We shall see Single Payer just makes sense its the easiest thing to do. If the House Dems are worried about re-election, how are they going to get booted out of office by enacting Single Payer? They’ll be lifers in the House are you kidding me?

I think what will happen is that the Public Option supporters will band together with the Single Payers and push Single Payer through and challenge the Senate to crush it. If the Senate crushes it, well they won’t be office much longer, many will call for this heads.

But I think even the Bluedogs will be shamed into voting for it. They aren’t that Conservative or ARE THEY?

We shall see

]]> By: S F McLeod http://www.healthcare-now.org/bait-and-switch-how-the-%e2%80%9cpublic-option%e2%80%9d-was-sold/comment-page-1/#comment-4300 S F McLeod Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:41:37 +0000 http://www.healthcare-now.org/?p=2470#comment-4300 Even if all of Medicaid and SCHIP populations were instantly shifted to the PO, what about all the Medicaid HMOs and those private insurers that cover SCHIP kids? Would Medicaid HMO's just go away? That, of course, may be a good thing, as we have had ongoing battles with Medicaid HMOs over enrollment, disenrollment, continuity of care, benefit coverage, etc--just like any other private insurer! And of course the whole issue that Medicaid programs, unlike Medicare, are run by individual states, state-financed, etc, so you'll have 50+ state legislatures to be happy/upset about this aspect of "public option". But all in all, you are correct--I have not heard 1 word out of the Obama folks about how to get people into the PO in mass numbers. And I love to see the use of the Latin phrase "tabula rasa"! Even if all of Medicaid and SCHIP populations were instantly shifted to the PO, what about all the Medicaid HMOs and those private insurers that cover SCHIP kids? Would Medicaid HMO’s just go away? That, of course, may be a good thing, as we have had ongoing battles with Medicaid HMOs over enrollment, disenrollment, continuity of care, benefit coverage, etc–just like any other private insurer! And of course the whole issue that Medicaid programs, unlike Medicare, are run by individual states, state-financed, etc, so you’ll have 50+ state legislatures to be happy/upset about this aspect of “public option”. But all in all, you are correct–I have not heard 1 word out of the Obama folks about how to get people into the PO in mass numbers. And I love to see the use of the Latin phrase “tabula rasa”!

]]> By: Christine Adams http://www.healthcare-now.org/bait-and-switch-how-the-%e2%80%9cpublic-option%e2%80%9d-was-sold/comment-page-1/#comment-4015 Christine Adams Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:06:08 +0000 http://www.healthcare-now.org/?p=2470#comment-4015 Do those who support the public option believe it is the first step in getting a single payer and that we must get there incrementally? Because if we want to do incremental reform it should be a phased in as part of a single payer plan. Phase 1: Start with prenatal to age 25 (or so) and put them into the current Medicare system and lower the age of Medicare eligibility. That way the healthiest of us are balancing out the sickest of us. It's also more like taxes for public education because it concentrates on children - that we need as a society to become healthy, productive adults to take care of us in our own old age; Then phase in other groups until everyone is in and nobody out. But to try an incremental approach that isn't even single payer is a deadend. Of course, I would prefer we just go for broke with single payer for all. Do those who support the public option believe it is the first step in getting a single payer and that we must get there incrementally? Because if we want to do incremental reform it should be a phased in as part of a single payer plan. Phase 1: Start with prenatal to age 25 (or so) and put them into the current Medicare system and lower the age of Medicare eligibility. That way the healthiest of us are balancing out the sickest of us. It’s also more like taxes for public education because it concentrates on children – that we need as a society to become healthy, productive adults to take care of us in our own old age; Then phase in other groups until everyone is in and nobody out. But to try an incremental approach that isn’t even single payer is a deadend. Of course, I would prefer we just go for broke with single payer for all.

]]> By: Randolph H. Erb http://www.healthcare-now.org/bait-and-switch-how-the-%e2%80%9cpublic-option%e2%80%9d-was-sold/comment-page-1/#comment-4008 Randolph H. Erb Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:26:23 +0000 http://www.healthcare-now.org/?p=2470#comment-4008 Insightful analysis. Wise strategy. Chance for success. Insightful analysis. Wise strategy. Chance for success.

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