Comments on: Why we risked arrest for single-payer health care

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:04:15 +0000

I beg to differ with your opinion. The last polls I saw, the majority of people were against a single payer system. I have asked every doctor I run across what they think and the above 8 are the only ones I know that think it would be a good thing. I had one doctor look me straight in the eye and tell me my son would have been dead at the age of 10 if that system was in place when he was diagnosed with cancer. Due to the protocol the doctor would have to follow. My son is alive and in college today. We had to pay for his treatment including flights out of town every six weeks. People from our church helped us with some of those flights. We could not get vouchers for food money while traveling because unemployment is a common thing for us so we save for the lean times and therefore had too much money in savings to qualify. People that don’t save could get vouchers though…sounds fair. Thank God for Ronald McDonald Houses, the only requirement to stay there is a deathly sick child. I never thought of having a child and expecting my fellow Americans to pay for him/her.
You have more control over raising money than your age. Rationing will have to come into play when the system runs out of the rich peoples money, just like Canada and Britian. You can’t control if you are too young or too old for treatment. Medicare’s future does not look real bright financially. Just like the postal service and cash for clunkers. You are talking about people’s lives and taking choices away. There is always hope to raise money, we just donated a little money to a woman in our church that needs $64,000 for stem cell treatment. I doubt the single payer system would cough up that much money for her, and then the government paid doctors would probably not be allowed to assist her even if she was able to raise the money from already taxed too much people.
How about TORT reform and interstate commerce, nothing like competition to bring down prices.

By: MOCKBADOC

MOCKBADOC — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:36:48 +0000

Interesting in the extreme that the same government, controlled by the people you supported, but which you now find is not able to be easily controlled itself, is the exact government you feel is best suited to providing responsible, ethical, affordable, and compassionate health care for you and your families. Think it’s hard to get them to listen to you now? Imagine trying to get them to reconsider a decision regarding your health when time and your life are on the line.

Interesting, and a little funny.

By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:42:02 +0000

Come to Washington, do an internship with the Maryland Chapter of PNHP, there will be plenty to do this summer!

By: M. Darnit

M. Darnit — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:24:31 +0000

I totally agree, this should be the civil rights movement, right here, right now. Healthcare for all Americans, nothing more, nothing less. Everybody in, Nobody Out. Time for the biggest civil rights movement since the 60′s, time for a revolution!

By: M. Darnit

M. Darnit — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:21:26 +0000

I appreciate everything that those who protested did. Please know you had thousands of people cheering you on in their living rooms and screaming at the TV! I do everything I can as much as I can for the single payer movement. It was the most beautiful thing I saw that day, the well spoken words, the well-planned onslaught of questions for Sen. Baucus, and I was so moved that DOCTORS actually cared enough to risk it all for their patients. So many times people don’t believe doctors care, but PNHP.org and healthcare-now.org prove differently.
Thank you to the “Baucus 8″, you are being cheered about, raved about, blogged about and the single payer world is abuzz with the wonderful chances you took for all Americans. You are heroes.

By: Ian Thomas

Ian Thomas — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:54:48 +0000

Let us post, post, post on every site, blog and newspaper in America. We need to expand the circles of people viewing these articles.

By: Parker Duncan

Parker Duncan — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:06:06 +0000

I’m thinking…if ‘THEY’ wont invite us to THEIR table, can we BUILD our own — or DESTROY theirs?
– What could be done to REMOVE Baucus from heading this farce of an effort (ie under SOME clause that accuses him of ‘abrogation of duty’ or something — for NOT fulfilling his mandate to ‘represent the people’)?
And I am part of a burgeoning health professional student movement in CALIFORNIA, some of whom are hankering for a ‘summer of civil disobedience’!…

By: Teresa Renberg

Teresa Renberg — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:41:56 +0000

Thank you so much for standing up for every man woman and child in America.

By: Eliza Jane Dodd

Eliza Jane Dodd — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:36:46 +0000

Thank You so much for what you did for ‘us’ .I feel very humbled ..My tears are flowing ….GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU !