Tell your Congressman to say "NO" to any mandatory "private insurance only"/corporate welfare scheme

[Faryn Balyncd]

We can't afford a multi-billion dollar give-away to insurance corporations that still will leave Americans without affordable PUBLIC healthcare.

We will never be able to afford (as individuals or as a nation) universal healthcare until we take on the blood-sucking insurance companies.

Health insurance corporations are not only destroying our access to affordable healthcare, they are destroying American industry & competitiveness. The cost of health insurance for retirees was a huge factor in the demise of Detroit.




We need SINGLE PAYER NOW!

A public option plan will give only a small portion of the savings of Single Payer. But, in contrast to a mandatory private insurance scheme, the savings are real. And it will at least hold open the possibility of evolution into Single Payer, through voluntary migration of ever-increasing numbers of Americans to the public plan because of inflationary pressures.

But a "private plan only" mandatory insurance scheme, as the corporate-welfare Republicans - and some Democratic corporatists - are peddling, will kill Single Payer forever.

Such a capitulation will enrich & entrench the insurance interests, and make confronting them in the future ever more difficult.

Yet we hear Democratic Senators saying Single Payer is "too divisive."

It is the corporatist sell-outs who are the truly divisive, and they should be ashamed to call themselves Democrats.





If we can't take corporate special interests now, with majorities in both houses of Congress, and with a popular president, how can we ever think we deserve the continuing trust of the American people???






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[patrice]

1. You have to ask yourself in re the Public Option: precisely HOW will costs be cut

if we don't take on the un-necessarily complex payment bureaucracy?

I happened to stand with a local nurses' union about 6 years ago when they were fighting rifs that dangerously increased the patient to nurse ratio in their hospitals across our metro area. How much worse has all of that sort of thing gotten in the intervening years and now we're going to cut a WHOLE LOT MORE . . . ? Euthansia by any other name is still euthanasia.

[dflprincess]

3. The payment bureaucracy is probably petty cash

when you bump it up against the millions that get paid out every month in commissions to brokers by each and every health insurance company whether it's a for profit or non-profit. That's one major expense that will be gone with single payer.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Didn't George Bush implement single prayer health care already?

God, save us!

If you die, it just means your coverage claim was denied by the All Mighty.

[Faryn Balyncd]

4. "Health Insurers Try to Scuttle Obama Plan"...........

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5608161



....and with Max Baucus, Ben Nelson, Chuck Schumer, Arlen Specter, and even Ron Wyden lining up with insurance lobby, we are in for the fight of our lives.

The insurance industry is out to destroy the public option, and turn healthcare "reform" into another trillion dollar corporate welfare scheme (like the Medicare Prescription Drug benefit, of which Big Pharma ended up being the primary beneficiary).

[Fumesucker]

5. Follow the golden rule..

Put a $10,000 check in with your letter..

Your congresscritter will pay more attention that way.

[bvar22]

6. What happened to all the "YES We Can !"

Every other developed nation in the World has found a way to implement Government Guaranteed Universal HealthCare. Health Care is a fundamental RIGHT in those countries.

NOW, some "Democrats" are telling us "No we can't!".
Its just too hard for America.
They say that Americans will just have to settle for less !

Fuck Them.

Why isn't the "Yes we can" man leading this charge ?