Tonight: Single-Payer on the ED Show, MSNBC
Tonight! 6 PM Eastern time, Margaret Flowers of PNHP will be on the ED Show on MSNBC. Margaret was one of the eight single-payer advocates arrested at the last Senate Roundtable on health reform.
More on the ED Show here.
Thank you to the eight single payer advocates arrested. Any congressperson or senator who votes against single payer should be subjected to a concerted effort to eliminate them from office without their healthcare.
Isn’t it the truth? I cannot believe that they are sitting in meetings with a insurance lobbyist discussing healthcare. Isn’t that a bit like bringing the drug lords in for a discussion on how to secure the borders?
Bonnie Patrick
Thank you guys, for standing up for us, the little guys without the deep pockets and political muscle. Senator Baucus’ smirk clearly showed his contempt for the electorate he works for. And thank you Ed Schultz, for providing much needed media coverage.
Vibeke Lee
I watched it. Ed did an excellent job
I’m thinking we really have to pressure them now or the lobbyists will win. Families USA is working with legislatures on an impressive compromise. They think that it is all that will pass and better something than nothing. I think we should go for the big deal now. If we loose, we haven’t compromised and just have another big problem. Sooner or later the current path will cause a disaster and then things will change. I would rather do nothing than to do something meaningless.
Bonnie
I missed the show, but I am so glad to hear of the protest. We need more people like these folks out there raising a stink and more like Ed in the media covering this absolutely critical topic. Single Payer is EXACTLY what this country needs NOW!
Ed–You are my hero!
We are a rag-tag group of rural Northern Californians working for Single Payer Healthcare for three years now. We are not about to give up, either. Sheila Kuehl led us Statewide with her introduction of SB840 and now Mark Leno has picked up where she left off. I’m really proud of them! His Holiness, the Dalai Lama says ‘Never give up” and with people like you in our corner, I am further fired-up to continue this battle for something that we should all have to right to–Good Health Care.
Sincerely,
Nancy M
All I can say is…Our insurance company Cigna took our beautiful daughter away from us. They need to be stopped, stopped, stopped NOW! They are killing people for profit,they are getting away with murder.
I want to see one of their kids die and lets see how the law will change.
How do you think I feel? Mothers Day is this weekend.. We cry everyday and we can’t sleep at night. Insurance companies can’t decide who is going to live and who is going to die. I will stop them.
If you missed it, you can still catch the video of Ed’s segment at the MSNBC website:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/30629823#30629823
He does a good job letting PNHP’s Margaret Flowers make her pitch for single-payer being at the table, but also talks to Finance Committee member Stabenow about the acute need for a break from the employer-based model Baucus looks to expand. Go watch the video (~6 minutes), and take a minute afterwards to thank Ed for bringing single-payer to the fore when it is excluded everywhere else, and for speaking truth to power.
Watched the video and want to say:
“GO ED!!”
Thank you for posting the link!
I’m so glad ED can keep Stabenow focused on the issue at hand: PUT SINGLE-PAYER ADVOCATES AT THE TABLE! She tries to veer the discussion to the folks that “want to keep their current insurance.” Ed just keeps pushing the point that, at the very least, single-payer should be invited to sit at the hearings.
Another thing.
Next time someone tells you they are for single-payer, but they like their current health plan, remind them that single-payer is about how they get insured, not which doctor they go to. This talking point is being used by Republicans to imply that single-payer means changes in health care delivery, when it is about how we pay for it.
Ed– Thanks for your coverage of Health Care reform. Where are all the Senators and the President who promised during the campaigns that we would have the same coverage options that they have and which we pay for?? We need a public option. Where are President Obama and Senator Kennedy? We need their voices. Go after them
Let’s all stop paying health insurance premiums. That the only way we’ll ever beat the insurance companies.
I keep asking WHERE, OH WHERE are the AFL-CIO, SEIU, AND United AutoWorkers ‘activists’ and LEADERS?
WHERE are the 75 congressmen who co-sponsor HR 676? WHY AREN’T THEY THERE GETTING ‘ARRESTED?’ Surely they could do more than just ‘sign up.’
Why are none of these entities never in the audience taking a stand for national healthcare!!
I simply do NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THE UNIONS (OTHER THAN DR AND NURSES) ARE NOT RAISING HE@@.my GOD…it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that someone’s getting paid to stay quiet and not stir union members into speaking out. AFL-CIO in New Jersey alone, has 1,000,000 members and 1,000 locals. Surely, they could spare ONE OR TWO ‘voices?’ As it is, the ‘leaders’ aren’t doing much for their members. And, RACKETEER MAX BAUCUS KNOWS THEY’RE CHICKEN!
Union leaders ‘endorse’ (whatever THAT means)…I strongly suspect it means not sticking their necks out. BAH!
They wouldn’t make a pimple on Eugene Debs…or the great union members of long ago.
IS MAX BAUCUS A RACKETEER according to the dictionary definition?Better yet; is he a racketeer according to the UNITED STATES RICO LAWS definition?
ONCE AGAIN, I ask—WHERE ARE THE LEADERS OF THE AFL-CIO,UAW AND SEIU WHEN OUR DOCTORS AND NURSES ARE BEING ARRESTED IN THE FIGHT FOR NATIONAL HEALTHCARE? Where are our politicians? Why are they so strangely ‘silent’ and absent from national healthcare demonstrations?
Are they afraid of RUPERT MURDOCH–the Centenarian old fool who owns Fox and the Enquirer?
Are Union Leaders receiving millions from the insurance companies – Like Criminal Racketeer Max Baucus-to keep people aged 18-64 from having national health insurance?
You know, the KIND WE PAY FOR SO CONGRESS AND THE SENATE CAN HAVE WHAT THEY DENY TO US?
Wouldn’t you love to see CRIMINAL RACKETEER/BAUCUS ORDER SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS OR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED AUTO WORKERS TO BE ARRESTED? Too bad these people aren’t willing to REALLY STAND UP AND SHOUT. THE TIME FOR ‘POLITENESS’ IS PAST. We tried it, remember?
I guarantee the stench on Criminial Racketeer Baucus, should he try to arrest a sitting senator or president of UAW or AFL-CIO would reach all the way to Montana…where the voters who elected him are quickly growing to detest Criminal Racketeer Baucus as much as we do. The sad part is that they’re MOBILIZING TO ‘DETHORONE’ HIM IN THE NEXT ELECTION…AND THEY JUST MIGHT SUCCEED.
Ed, you are the word of the people and you speak for me
As a Vietnam veteran Usmc ..
You are right to say that the President Obama should lissen to
The people who voted him in and take on the GOP .I will pay more
Taxes to have everyone covered with health care.
The private INS.. Comp..are out for them self. It is a shame on what is
Happening here in the US on health care..a public or socialist health care
Who cares as long as we can improve everyone quality of life and to be
Allow to died in dignity.. Keep talking for us Ed..
ED…will you be covering the HEALTHCARE FOR ALL DEMONSTRATIONS IN D.C. It’s at the Washington National Monument, Today: June 25, 2009, 10:00 am.
TELL MSNBC TO RETIRE CHRIS MATTHEWS. For God’s sake, he spent an entire HOUR talking about ex governor Sanders (hopefully will be an ‘ex;)..While he was talking, 80 people died yesterday–they had no health insurance.
IS MSNBC NOW IN COMPETITION WITH RUPERT MURDOCH?
Thank heaven for YOU ED.
ED, PLEASE ASK OUR CONGRESS MEMBERS IF THEY LIKE THEIR GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTHCARE AND WHY WE CAN’T HAVE THE SAME. I HEAR NO COMPLAINTS FROM CONGRESS ABOUT THEIR HEALTHCARE…… MAYBE WE SHOULD STOP THEIRS AND LET THEM SEE HOW WE LIVE IN THE REAL WORLD!!!!!!! THEY ARE IN THE POCKETS OF THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY. SHAME ON THEM WITH THEIR LET THEM EAT CAKE ATTITUDE.
DIANNE WAGNER
Isn’t Medicare a single payer program? Isn’t Medicare government run healthcare going broke? What makes you idiots think a new government run single payer option will be run any better than Medicare? I would much rather see the insurance companies be better regulated than simply run out of business by the government and then have nothing but the government to depend on for my health care. As a disabled vet, I have experienced first hand government run healthcare, and it stinks.
The UK has a single payer–and it is the THIRD largest employer in the WORLD. 1 million plus. The UK is a small country compared to the US. If the US goes to single payer after they drive out the ins industry, imagine the enormous number of people it would take to wade through and administer the babble in the 1100 page Obamacare Bill.
The UK system is a socialized healthcare system, NOT single-payer (which has public funding, but is privately delivered). Also, Obama’s “1100 page Obamacare Bill” is nowhere close to single-payer, let along a socialized system like the UK.
Finally, with your help, some people are getting the picture.
The President and Democrats have NOT done a good job to date in
informing the public on the key aspects of health-care reform.
Where has been the anecdotal evidence from Americans on both the
positive aspects on government-run programs, and the negative aspects
about the life or death issues involved in not having coverage, as well financial impacts on American families?
Regarding the positive aspects of government care, I have been a very appreciative recipient of VA medical benefits, including a
recent cardiac bypass operation. My experience with VA Med has been
uniformly positive. Appointments are ON TIME. I can remember waiting 30 minutes on an eye exam, but in ALL other cases, the appointment was ON TIME within a very few minutes.
Many of the doctors involved in the VA program are associated with
teaching universities, and are “cutting edge” in regard to knowing
current techniques and approaches. They are not typically (in my experience)doctors in military service. I have been a patient for
several years both in the Sacramento, CA area, and in Phoenix, AZ.
Care has been exceptional in both areas.
As examples of effiency, lab tests are done quickly on a “walk-in”
basis. As an example, in response to my questions, the lab tech
told me at the time of drawing my blood, that they do about 400
samples a day. It took me probably less than 15 minutes from the time of signing in to having samples drawn. Follow up on the results was within a couple of days.
There are specialty units from dermatology to cardiac care and oncology, with doctors trained within those specialties. Although this is just an anecdotal comment, I particularly remember a visit
to dermatology on a routine exam basis, and having the doctor spot a
suspicious skin condition from about 6 feet away. In this case it
was just a small reddish spot. It was not even noticeable to me – I
was more concerned about a benign mole in the same area. The doctor’s comment was that he would rather “watch it in a jar” than on my shoulder. The offending reddish spot was excised and tested.
Although it turned out that cells were atypical, it was not cancer.
It may seem that I am going on and on, but I wanted to back up my
thoughts about government health care. There have been problems with
conditions in some VA facilities, and delays in determining the level of service-related injuries, but we do a disservice to our
VA programs by talking it down as seems so prevalent by news commentators with no particular knowledge about VA medical benefits
and programs.
My daughter is a single mom who can’t afford health insurance for herself, and can’t afford $200-$300 for mammograms, just as an example. Millions of Americans, just like her, put off recommended
tests or care simply because it is a choice between medical care, or
money for food, rent, and other basic needs.
Get Americans to talk about the impacts of NOT HAVING COVERAGE, and
push back against the LYING by politicians such as Senator Grassley,
who recently on either CNBC or MSNBC talked in negative terms about
“AMERICANS” (or the American public) don’t want government control of health care, as though all of us are against a public option.
Senator Grassley, YOU DON’T SPEAK FOR ME, when you talk about what “Americans want”.
TIME TO PUSH BACK~~~~~~~~!!!!
I find it difficult to believe that (other than MIKE ROSS OF ARKANSAS), there are no ‘stickable’ racketeering episodes that can be attributed to OLD MAX BAUCUS, Mary Landrieu, Chas. Grassley, Kent Conrad, and all the other FAKE DEMOCRATS who have taken MILLIONS FROM THE INSURANCE CARTEL—TO MAKE SURE THAT WE NEVER EVER GET HEALTH INSURANCE!!
GET ME THE TAR, YOU PLUCK THE CHICKENS ED, we’ll do the rest!!!
Ed i am African American and i watch your show religiously, i thank God every day for you and your show, because of you the changes that America needs to make her great again in the eyes of the world will become a reality. your commentary on small business was right on target and the policy makers in the white house and congress should pay attention to your comments i also applaud you on being a vigorous advocate for health care and a robust public option. thank you for fighting on behalf for all of those who dose not have a voice, may god bless you, your family and staff.
Hey Ed,
What’s goin’ on here. I am with you. If we can not have a competite and fair exchange the Republicans will only decry foul play and the problem that time is that THEY might actually be Right for a change…Let’s hold-out if necessary, but make no mistake most ALL of us are with the President like we know you are. However, we may have to hold the line, just a little bit longer!I’m very confident in good ole American Resolve and we learn our lessons well. If it is better policies need then we will Run with more competent independent minded Representation.
Yeah that was competitive and fair that i meant to say before!
You know Ed, the good, hardworkin’ Congressman is exactly right!!! He has to hold to support our Seniors. The real cost of me standing with you, could very well be the hardest on the most vulnerable in our society…Still, this is a worthy stance and ultimately our goal is to improve what is currently, already, unbelievable conditions in AMERICA. The answers are in your questions Ed…Keep it candid and we will raise the bar around here..
Thanks for the outlet Brother!!