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]]> By: Philinda http://www.healthcare-now.org/single-payer-to-be-introduced-on-the-floor-of-the-us-house-of-representatives/comment-page-1/#comment-16586 Philinda Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:39:00 +0000 http://www.healthcare-now.org/?p=2530#comment-16586 I'm impessred. You've really raised the bar with that. I’m impessred. You’ve really raised the bar with that.

]]> By: Scott Campbell http://www.healthcare-now.org/single-payer-to-be-introduced-on-the-floor-of-the-us-house-of-representatives/comment-page-1/#comment-5280 Scott Campbell Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:26:08 +0000 http://www.healthcare-now.org/?p=2530#comment-5280 Please feed and care for the children. Share our medical expertise with all of the people supporting and living in this great country. Stop crying on tax funding. DEDUCT THE $100 or THE $200 EACH EMPLOYEE, with a health benefit pays per month or per paycheck. Count the savings for all and then look at the savings for the country on a single payer health benefit protection. SUBTRACT the federal support from the bounty collected by insurers, insurers skirting the notion of a free market and fixing prices or limiting benefits, find the remainder as the benefit (profit shared by all)and praise the freedom from the insurer bosses. Imitate the grassroots cap on the railroad barons (bosses), way two centuries ago. United States of America Please feed and care for the children. Share our medical expertise with all of the people supporting and living in this great country.

Stop crying on tax funding. DEDUCT THE $100 or THE $200 EACH EMPLOYEE, with a health benefit pays per month or per paycheck. Count the savings for all and then look at the savings for the country on a single payer health benefit protection.

SUBTRACT the federal support from the bounty collected by insurers, insurers skirting the notion of a free market and fixing prices or limiting benefits, find the remainder as the benefit (profit shared by all)and praise the freedom from the insurer bosses.

Imitate the grassroots cap on the railroad barons (bosses), way two centuries ago.

United States of America

]]> By: Annette Floreani http://www.healthcare-now.org/single-payer-to-be-introduced-on-the-floor-of-the-us-house-of-representatives/comment-page-1/#comment-4532 Annette Floreani Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:28:12 +0000 http://www.healthcare-now.org/?p=2530#comment-4532 I have been a registered nurse for 40+ years. Health care is a right, NOT a privilage for those who are fortunate enough to have a job that affords them health care. The propaganda that this country has the best health care in the world is absurd. Look at our outcomes compared to Scandinavian countries. We need a single payer system and the time to do this is NOW, or it will never happen. Propaganda that says we would have to wait for procedures is ridiculous. We wait now...they just don't say that we are "on the list". I was referred to an orthopedist and am waiting over 3 months for that ititial office visit. If I do need surgery, I will, once again, have to wait for the surgeon to be able to schedule when he, or she, has the time, and when it will fit into the hospital's and my schedule. That is no different than a national health care system...it just has different verbage. People who are so worried about an increase in taxes should realize that the tax increase would not be as much as their current monthly health insurance premium (if they are even lucky enough to have a health care plan at all). Canada has excellent health care. I have spoken with several Canadians. None are unhappy with their care. I know of no Canadian who would move here for the health care. Can we not engineer a plan, like theirs, that will give everyone assurance of health care, promote preventive care and return our country to a healthy state? I have been a registered nurse for 40+ years. Health care is a right, NOT a privilage for those who are fortunate enough to have a job that affords them health care. The propaganda that this country has the best health care in the world is absurd. Look at our outcomes compared to Scandinavian countries. We need a single payer system and the time to do this is NOW, or it will never happen.

Propaganda that says we would have to wait for procedures is ridiculous. We wait now…they just don’t say that we are “on the list”. I was referred to an orthopedist and am waiting over 3 months for that ititial office visit. If I do need surgery, I will, once again, have to wait for the surgeon to be able to schedule when he, or she, has the time, and when it will fit into the hospital’s and my schedule. That is no different than a national health care system…it just has different verbage.

People who are so worried about an increase in taxes should realize that the tax increase would not be as much as their current monthly health insurance premium (if they are even lucky enough to have a health care plan at all).

Canada has excellent health care. I have spoken with several Canadians. None are unhappy with their care. I know of no Canadian who would move here for the health care. Can we not engineer a plan, like theirs, that will give everyone assurance of health care, promote preventive care and return our country to a healthy state?

]]> By: Charley http://www.healthcare-now.org/single-payer-to-be-introduced-on-the-floor-of-the-us-house-of-representatives/comment-page-1/#comment-4496 Charley Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:23:33 +0000 http://www.healthcare-now.org/?p=2530#comment-4496 Single payer or a public trust system, such as England's would be the best solutions. Multipayer with a government option works too, that is what they have in Germany and it works very well. The thing I don't like about the single payer option is that, if we use the same model as Canada, it's still fee for service. Fee for service does not give doctors or health care providers the right motivation. I prefer England's system where they draw a salary and then they get bonuses for having the best outcomes (healthiest patients) of course there need to be controls that stop doctors from dropping unhealthy patients in order to boost their income. Best system is a public trust healthcare service where the doctors receive a salary, followed by single payer and then mulitpayer with a government option. Single payer or a public trust system, such as England’s would be the best solutions. Multipayer with a government option works too, that is what they have in Germany and it works very well.
The thing I don’t like about the single payer option is that, if we use the same model as Canada, it’s still fee for service. Fee for service does not give doctors or health care providers the right motivation. I prefer England’s system where they draw a salary and then they get bonuses for having the best outcomes (healthiest patients) of course there need to be controls that stop doctors from dropping unhealthy patients in order to boost their income.
Best system is a public trust healthcare service where the doctors receive a salary, followed by single payer and then mulitpayer with a government option.

]]> By: Michael Grish http://www.healthcare-now.org/single-payer-to-be-introduced-on-the-floor-of-the-us-house-of-representatives/comment-page-1/#comment-4209 Michael Grish Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:59:08 +0000 http://www.healthcare-now.org/?p=2530#comment-4209 Congratulations to Healthcare-NOW for helping to place single payer front and center in the healthcare reform debate. It's way overdue, and a sign that Americans are fed up with business-as-usual, which as we know is an ugly stain on America's history. Let's push single payer forward to success, just as Medicare was decades ago. Onward! Congratulations to Healthcare-NOW for helping to place single payer front and center in the healthcare reform debate. It’s way overdue, and a sign that Americans are fed up with business-as-usual, which as we know is an ugly stain on America’s history. Let’s push single payer forward to success, just as Medicare was decades ago. Onward!

]]> By: Glenn Ross http://www.healthcare-now.org/single-payer-to-be-introduced-on-the-floor-of-the-us-house-of-representatives/comment-page-1/#comment-4091 Glenn Ross Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:09:41 +0000 http://www.healthcare-now.org/?p=2530#comment-4091 There is no further discussion. SINGLE PAYER is the only answer...period! The healthinsurance has only proved they are extremely greedy and will not help anyone but themselves. Time to permenantely remove the insurance companies. They can sell extra coverage. Glenn Ross There is no further discussion.

SINGLE PAYER is the only answer…period! The healthinsurance has only proved they are extremely greedy and will not help anyone but themselves.

Time to permenantely remove the insurance companies. They can sell extra coverage.

Glenn Ross

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