Comments on: President Obama: the Answer is Medicare for All

By: Norman Viray

Norman Viray — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:03:14 +0000

Still unacceptable to vote yes as of March 19, 2010…Mandating everyone to pay for health insurance (including small businesses) or else pay penalties? That sounds extortion to me! What if your one of the 40 million who are uninsured and unemployed and also no money left after paying just the rent, food, basic clothing and transportation? double whammy! Where else these people get the money upfront to purchase health insurance? High interest loans? Your bailing out the banks and health insurance companies again!!!
AMEND THIS CLAUSE BEFORE VOTING YES AND CREATE SOME EXCEPTIONS!!!

By: Edith Kenna

Edith Kenna — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:24:46 +0000

It is very interesting that at the 2/25 Summit, PNHP statistics were often quoted…but no representative of PNHP was invited…is that because Washington assumesthat professional politicians know best about health care? Our elected officials don’t yet get it; access to health care is not a commodity. Single payer advocates continue to be excluded because we know access to afordable, portable, and equitable health care is a right; or at the very least, a public good. The Sente bill is deeply flawed, but not for the reasons the Legislators or the Presient report. It is deeply flawed because we people are dehumanized. I, and my sick daughter, are not to be compared to a cell phone! This is a national emergency…fight, fight, fight for single payer

By: Bob Wagenseil

Bob Wagenseil — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:00:27 +0000

I am so very thankful to have read these messages. I now know that I am not alone.
Imagine if tomorrow morning every “health care industry” ad were to be pulled from the mass media market and the billions of dollars that would have been spent on marketing and advertising were instead set aside and placed in a “Medicare for All” account.
Every evening all across America our airways are flooded with ads from hospitals, drug (pushers) companies, and insurance monopolies.
How ironic that at the same time so many of our politicians are trying to convince the American people that we cannot trust the government we elect but can trust capitalist corporations when it comes to our health care!
“We the people” still have the power to vote these parasites out of office and replace them with men and women of integrity who will do what is right for America and give us “Medicare for all” with no caps for the rich and famous.
Thanks for being there to give us a voice.

By: John Barker

John Barker — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:10:44 +0000

To answer your question, click on HR676 above for a summary of HR676.

By: Activist Wednesday: The Assumption of Bad Intentions « The Widdershins

Activist Wednesday: The Assumption of Bad Intentions « The Widdershins — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:02:24 +0000

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By: Edward

Edward — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:35:04 +0000

While I am a supporter of an single-payer or a medicare for all system. Given the current economic crisis (30,000,000+ out of work) do you really think now is a good time to for the U.S. to transition to search a system?

By: President Obama: the Answer is Medicare for All « Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:45:54 +0000

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By: Don George

Don George — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:37:38 +0000

Yes, for the love of God YES. We need single payer no insurance company involved health care. It just makes sense. Why would you want to have your health care dollars fund the fat cat self indulged money grubbing bastards that have killed untold amounts of people all for the sake of making more money for their selves. There should not be a profit motive in health care, therefore the insurance company should not be involved in an aspect of health care. Every country that has ever had universal health care has never repealed it. It must be a good idea.
We all need to do everything we can to push congress and the senate into this health care reform. I wish that I could be in DC to help demonstrate but I can write my senator and news paper and show up to local demonstrations. I will do whatever it takes to pass health care reform.

By: Norman Viray

Norman Viray — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:27:00 +0000

Why can’t we just get along and dance together and all win together?

We live in a Capitalist society and one of the evils of our society is self-interest and corporate profit maximization at all cost.

*I am for single payer and public option and integrated health insurance/taxes/jobs bill reform.

Personally and currently,I have sick friends and relatives who end up in bankruptcy because health insurance companies denied their claims. I have physician friends who are squeezed by high malpractice insurance year in and year out. I have friends who work for health and malpractice insurance & pharmaceutical companies who are overworked and underpaid. I have unemployed and underemployed friends who cannot afford Cobra and exhausted their unemployment benefits. Our organization for the past 2 years, have been denied over 800 times and never got grant funding from the government and public/private foundations for our nonprofit organization to further our public causes we established since 1993. Hence, our volunteers don’t have health insurance.

*I fully support “Medicare to All” and in all my posts in Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter for the past week, my wife Frances Strain and I called this “MEDISHARE”.

Everyone must concede, share, forgive, forget, and help each other!

— If we implement “Medicare for Everyone” or “MediShare”, what will be our plans for my friends who work for health insurance, malpractice insurance, and pharmaceutical companies who will lose their jobs? Any ideas? What jobs will the government create for them?

— What are we going to do with the Board of Directors & Officers of these health/malpractice insurance and pharmaceutical companies who are excessive, sociopaths, and financial sociopaths? Any ideas?

— Any ideas on how can my sick friends, who are now mostly bankrupt, recover from the evils done by health/malpractice insurance companies? They cannot even borrow money and losing their homes due to foreclosure!

— Any response President Obama, Congressmen, Senate, IRS, lobbyists, health/malpractice pharmaceutical companies, and us the majority financially poor?

EVERYONE HELP! WE NEED BALANCE! DON’T BE A FINANCIAL SOCIOPATH! PLEASE HELP EACH OTHER OUT!

By: Mary Ann Maikish

Mary Ann Maikish — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:47:54 +0000

All of these points are very important in a Single Payer Health System BUT you neglect to mention that this system should be administered by the Federal government and not contracted out to private industry to administer the way it is now. Private industry’s ( whether it is the Insurance Company covering health care or the company administering Medicare) major goal is to maximize their profits by limiting the services to the public. Right now Medicare DOES NOT COVER PREVENTIVE CHECKUPS!!!!!! and they have many reasons why they will not cover certain procedures fully or at all (it takes a lawyer to understand it). Many doctors and medical facilities refuse to accept medicare for this reason and if medicare does not cover the supplemental insurance does not cover.
Medicare D (the prescription plan) has a doughnut hole that makes seniors pay 60 to 100% of the cost of their medications once they reach 2.500–to reach this point the program counts both the amount the insurance pays and the amount the senior pays–once the senior reaches $4500 then the amount is significantly reduced BUT the program only counts the amount the senior pays not the amount the insurance might pay. This is set up for the benefit of the employers and insurance companies not the senior. We have to make sure the Improved medicare does not work to the benefit of the employers and drug companies and that the seniors in the income bracket of 50,000 to 80,000 a year (the missing class) are not left out of government assistance as they are in the housing programs.