Comments on: Sanders Says Single-Payer Day Will Come as He Withdraws Amendment

By: My 10 heroes of the year (in no particular order) « Relative Surplus Value

My 10 heroes of the year (in no particular order) « Relative Surplus Value — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:13:38 +0000

[...] a large portion of the population that had no voice in the absurd health care debate this year. He sponsored an amendment and tried to force the Senate to vote on universal health care. It didn’t happen, but he’s [...]

By: My 10 heroes of the year (in no particular order) « Grahamophone

My 10 heroes of the year (in no particular order) « Grahamophone — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:02:53 +0000

By: Hugh Sanborn

Hugh Sanborn — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:19:28 +0000

Single payer is the only sensible cost saving, full coverage of all approach that will provide major change.

By: Giovanna Lepore

Giovanna Lepore — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:17:17 +0000

I have notified both my senators that I do not intend to cooperate with any unjust health “care” reform laws and that I will continue to agitate for such resistance until we have a publicly funded health insurance for all. For some of us it isn’t even a matter of choosing to buy health “care” over groceries–we are already struggling to pay for groceries so there is nothing left for health “care”! But at bottom it is a matter of duty to one another if not a human right to take care of each other. Let us send these criminals a strong united message: we will NOT cooperate with your unjust laws! If we must die for lack of health care let us do it with dignity Then!

By: Doug Gerash

Doug Gerash — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:26:11 +0000

Proof that we live in a true plutocracy and the Democratic Party is at its most corrupt, cowardly and craven since 1968.

By: Rosina

Rosina — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:20:50 +0000

What can we do now?? We cannot ask these people to listen to reason.
When will we take to the streets and make enough noise?? The only progressive changes that have been won were won through building mass movements, i.e. the labor movement; women’s right to vote; civil rights; the anti-war movement to name those in the 20th century.

The left is so fragmented because of petty differences. It’s time to grow up and come to a consensus. If we do not unite and fight. we lose and they win.

By: beverly

beverly — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:58:15 +0000

Bernie Sanders is as full of hot air as 99% of Congress. I heard him during Thanksgiving on one of the Sunday polticial disinformation fests, er, political talk shows and he said the best system would be Medicare for All but that’s not going to happen. The he proceeded to babble in support of the half-assed, ineffective public option mess. Sanders talks a good game but has no follow through. If he were so gung ho on single payer, he wouldn’t have withdrawn the amendment. At this serious juncture – with Congress and Obama ready to hand over the rest of the Treasury to insurance and drug companies – Sanders and other single payer advocates in DC need to be ready for the fight of their lives and resist the bullies in their party. If Sanders votes yea for Obama’s healtcare deform bill, voters should not reward him with another term in office – just as we should not reward ANY Congressperson who votes for this awful bill. It’s past time we punished bad behavior in Congress (and the White House) by not rewarding these people with another 6-figure salary (along with all the other perks) term in office.

By: Doug Simple

Doug Simple — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:12:31 +0000

The sheep are pleased, but not quite sure why…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOSUlOQV0ak

By: Mary Ellen Jacobs

Mary Ellen Jacobs — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:23:38 +0000

The loss of human life and the damage to people’s lives as their symptoms worsen all done at the hands of insurer greed and government corruption has always been PARAMOUNT in establishing a Single Payer Medicare For All Healthcare System. Our goal right now is to value and save human life in the U.S. wherever it is, as insurer greed and profit spiral more out of control.

Each Single Payer Advocate has more power right now – more than ever. We can be reporters. We must report on every insurer abuse. As one claim denial takes place anywhere in the U.S., we must report it. As a claimant is wrongfully victimized by insurer abuses including their harassment investigations, we must report it. As each insurer investigator profits off of the new healthcare bill by gaining more government work, we must report it. We must report on everything we hear and see.

Each Single Payer Advocate must develop a database and blog for each state correctly counting the number of insurance claims denied in that state and all pertinent data that goes with it. We must be the go to people for the uninsured and for the denial of claims. We must show up our state’s Dept, of Insurance and question each State’s Attorney General on what they are doing. Single Payer Advocates must run for office on a local, state and federal level. We must become Regulators. We must get into the Executive Branch of state and federal government. We must become lawyers and judges.

We must never back off when political adversity is staring us in this face. We don’t quit, not now, not ever – until Single Payer is established. After all, Civil and Human Rights are ours – there is no “theirs.”

By: Perry

Perry — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:14:39 +0000

The greed of corporate America is sickening. I hope this regime of capitalism is overthrown soon!