Comments on: Urgent: Call Senators Today to Support Sanders Single-Payer Amendment

By: Katie Robbins

Katie Robbins — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:55:08 +0000

Thanks, Christine. Please keep us posted on your trial and what we can do to help.

By: Christine O'Brien Stenger

Christine O'Brien Stenger — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:31:35 +0000

Fortune 500 company Coventry Health Care, Inc of Bethesda Maryland is the defendant in an upcoming lawsuit against my former HMO, charged with discrimination and intimidation against me, a person with a disability.

The trial is scheduled for April 2010 in Ohio County, Wheeling WV. It is only the first step in educating the public as to the egreious deeds done by for profit insurance companies against unsuspecting public. Knowledge empowers! And my fvormer HMO let me in the door for months to insvestigate their unjust business practices. Evidence will indict.

Thank you for all your efforts to be the voices of the most vulnerable, the mentally ill and the elderly.

By: Catharine London

Catharine London — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:01:34 +0000

I am tired of fighting with the insurance companies (word) over my health care. I am I. I don’t fit a profile. Give me a break!

By: John Barker

John Barker — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:40:34 +0000

I emailed my Senators. I tried to call them but Russ Feingold’s voice mail was “full” and Herb Kohl’s phone was not answered. Herb Kohl emailed back a mindless form letter expressing the glorious details of the current Senate reform bill, it did not mention the Sander’s amendment, and it indicated as usual that he would keep my comments in mind. That is probematical, since he in all probability he did not and will not see them. I do get the impression that these people are just not listening and probably believe that I’ll have to vote for them because if I don’t it’s a vote for their Republican opponent.

Feingold says he is fighting corporate welfare yet he is willing to support and vote for healthcare reform that is one of the biggest corporate welfare give aways in American history. Current healthcare reform bills do have one redeeming value in this regard, they would repeal subsidies to Medicare Advantage Plans which are a sneaky attempt by Republicans to privatize Medicare. Medicare Advantage Plans are PRIVATE plans subsidized by Medicare to finance perks to entice seniors to enroll in them and 10 million seniors have enrolled in them. They are corporate welfare. Medicare Advantage Plans must be stopped and current reform bills would do that, so would HR676! If a majority of seniors were to eventually enroll in Medicare Advantate Plans, Medicare for All would be moot. Medicare would have become a private entity and in the hands of healthcare profiteers who would quickly eliminate the perks. It would not be Medicare for All that any progressive would want to impose upon the American public.

By: Elvena

Elvena — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:41:59 +0000

Single payer is the only system that makes economic sense. The lives of Americans are at stake. We can not afford a system that will not reform no matter what laws are passed. The insurance industry will always find a way around any reform. It doesn’t matter how much you charge in fines when one American has died because of this failed system.

It is criminal to force people barely able to pay for neccessities to purchase insurance companies that have robbed and killed citizens.

Stop the madness!

Elvena Pastran

By: jonathon r mason

jonathon r mason — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:49:41 +0000

Single payer system is the only system to reduce costs. It will then, and only then improve the health care system.

By: Thomas L. Carroll

Thomas L. Carroll — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:37:12 +0000

1 million people invest 1 dollar is a million $’s.
25 million only need 25 cents for a million $’s.
The American citizens have brains of mush, the dumbest animal of any advanced society. The rest of the world need to be scared as hell. We don’t need these corrupt politicians and government or the ruthless insurance companies, We can unite as Americans, form our own collective, and deal direct to our health care providers. They would rather deal with the patients and a collective that has the best interest of the patient. If they do not pass health care we will pass on all of them!