Health care re-defined.

[flamin lib]

We’ve got to tell our candidates who are running on health care reform to change the argument. He who defines the argument wins the argument.

John Edwards said he would raise taxes to implement universal health care. He’s wrong. Health care is a hidden tax that all citizens pay on every $$ they spend. General Motors says there is $1-2000 in health care built into every car they make. That is a hidden tax. Every business that pays for employee health care passes it on to the consumer and it’s a hidden tax

Single payer health care would cost less to administer than the current system. Every provider has their own forms and rules. If every patient had the same forms and procedures it would cut Dr.’s administrative costs by 40%. That administrative cost is a hidden tax.

Edwards would not raise taxes; he would shift them from every product we buy and service we use where they are hidden to one that we can see.

Get those cards and letters going ‘cause this is an argument that can be won if we just define it right.

[lovuian]

1. I agree between Insurance administration

and Insurance companies...it would take much of the cost but also the corporations will have to be taxed more

[flamin lib]

2. The key to winning this issue is to educate the public on the

hidden health care taxes they are already paying. The cost will NOT be a tax increase, it will be a tax shift from hidden to visible.

[cyclezealot]

3. no need to write my candidate Dennis Kucinich

He is for single payer, along with John Conyers, who is his co sponsor. My candidate has chutzpah.