We can, by implementing HR 676 and S 703, the two current bills in Congress, acheive a true reform of our broken Healthcare system. They both call for Single Payer, Universal, Affordable healthcare for ALL!
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single payer universal health care is affordable and the only way to ensure the best of health for everyone.
As long as the U. S. health insurance industry is permitted to profit from the misfortunes of sick people, the insurance corporation "middlemen" will continue to siphon many hundreds of billions of healthcare dollars away from healthcare providers.
Among the major industrialzed, democratic nations of the world, the U. S. is unique in failing to deal with the fact that these insurance corporation "middlemen", who are an impediment to efficient, effective medical care, provide NO medical services, nor do they provide any added value whatsoever -- none!
The California state legislatue passed Single Payer Healthcare legislation TWICE, in 2006 and again in 2008. Both times it was vetoed by the Republican Governor. This legislation has been re-introduced for the third time and will undoubtedly pass the California legislature, once again. This is so, because the PEOPLE WANT IT!
Sen. Max Baucus is dead wrong! The people in his home state of Montana want Single Payer Healthcare. Sen. Baucus hears only the voices of the insurance lobbyists who finance his election campaigns! To all others, the doors of his Senate hearing room may as well be barred.
For President Obama to have worked so hard to keep Single Payer Healthcare off the public discussion table is nothing less than shameful!
I will continue to organize and work for Rep. John Conyers' bill HR-676. I strongly urge President Obama to do the same. On the issue of national healthcare, I confess that Pres. Obama has been a terrible disappointment to those of us who worked so hard for candidate Obama.
My hope is that universal single payer health care becomes a reality for all American's and puts an end to the health care monopolies we have in this country. I couldn't agree more with the two previous comments.
• H.R. 676: “United States National Health Care Act (USNHC)” or the “Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act.” This bill is a step in the right direction. I am not certain if it can be construed as a single payer health system. This bill should be rewritten to a standardized ‘payment for procedure’ format. The ‘Health Information Technology’ (HIT) Act, passed in the Economic Stimulus Package of 2009, will take time to average health costs across the country. The HIT act requires that all medical organizations submit patient data to a national data base. The HIT act will then calculate the nation wide cost for each and every procedure. Once every procedure has a standardized government cost associated with it, then every payment form the USNHC can then be standardized regionally or by state. Excess costs can be paid out of pocket by the citizen or by private insurance companies.
• The best resource for single payer health care information is located at the “Physicians for a National Health Program” (PNHP). Link to this organization: www.pnhp.org
We are at the bottom of a staggering recession with unemployment still rising and government revenues still falling. We have had a huge explosion of federal spending adding massive interest payments to the national debt.
Adding another huge entitlement program that will grow exponentially in cost is economic suicide. It's a nice idea, but there is no money. Look at what's happening with Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. We can't afford them for much longer either because of growing costs. How can any reasonable person think we can add another huge medical program and survive.
Our government is loaded to the breaking point. We already desperately need to deeply cut pork and existing entitlements to pay for the stimulus, bailouts, loan guarantees, etc, etc.
The main buyer of our debt, China, is having second thoughts about the safety of the 1.7 trillion dollars we already owe them. They won't be interested in buying much of the additional 1.7 trillion in bonds we have to sell for what the president has already done. If noone buys those bonds we will have to literally print money and "buy" them ourselves. This will devalue the dollar and drop our bond rating. Interest rates will climb high to induce people to buy the bonds. Then inflation will kick in and go nuts.
High interest rates, high store prices, you know gas will go back up, higher taxes on everybody, are you sure you want to add more on?
Health care cost are helping to drive our national debt. The Public Health Care Option will put the cost controls in place on health care services that are so desperately needed there by cutting the national debt. Do you understand that before the massive job loss in this counrty everytime a sick person with no insurance ends up in the E.R. you are paying for their health care? The health care cost are not only bankrupting people but businesses.