MEDICARE FOR ALL

[SmileyRose]

Day 2

I will post it every day.
I'll email it every day.
I'll leave a note where someone will see it every day.
Call all my reps
Write a letter to editors of all local papers
Vent it.
I have bumper stickered by car.
I have a button to wear on my shirt.


Every day. Until we have it or I die. Period.

[OneGrassRoot]

1. I shall recommend every day.

And join you in the daily activities of spreading the word...

:hi:

[Vinca]

2. Me, too.

[Hannah Bell]

3. kr

[Dragonfli]

4. K&R

[raccoon]

5. ITA with you, Smiley, but I believe Medicare for all is going to be a hard and bitter fight.

I don't think we're going to achieve it by just voting.

[RC]

6. Some thought food.

Twice in our Constitution it mentions "general welfare" What constitutes 'General Welfare'?
The old-age benefits provisions of the Social Security Act of 1935 is an example of providing for the 'general welfare'. Medicaid/Medicare are 2 more examples of providing for the 'general welfare'.
Government controlled, Single Payer, Universal health care for the people of the United States IS covered by the Constitution, because the relative health of our citizens does affect the general welfare of the Nation. 45,000 dead people a year are proof the profit driven, privately run systems we have in place now are not working to provide the necessary health care for our nation.
How can our present private health insurance system, with its many insurance companies (each with its own way of doing things), its own highly paid management, its own attention to the bottom line for its share holders, its own claims requirements, its own forms for submitting claims, etc., be more efficient than any government controlled single Payer system, with its single set of rules and forms?

http://www.timws.com/

[zipplewrath]

13. Securng the blessings of liberty

In addition, it would seem that one could consider this "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity". Man, if there is one thing we would want to pass on to our "posterity", isn't it this?

[Lint Head]

7. EXACTLY.

[a kennedy]

8. here here, is that right or is it, hear hear....

anyway, I'm with ya Smiley...... :applause: :applause: :applause: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

[SmileyRose]

19. heh heh

I'm soooo the wrong one to ask. The grammar police of the DU have flogged me on a regular basis. :)

[bvar22]

9. I will K&R every day too,

because anything LESS than Medicare for all IS a SELLOUT!

"If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for,
at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them."
--- Paul Wellstone

[Dawgs]

10. Medicare has become a dirty word. Single-payer is a new term that can become popular when explained.

Good idea though.

:hi:

[bvar22]

16. Medicare is NOT a dirty word in these parts.

In fact, just the opposite.
I live in an impoverished Southern Red State.
Most people here are either ON Medicare, or have a family member ON Medicare.
They LOVE Medicare...just try to take it away from them.
This is one of the places where people were screaming "Keep the government OUT of my Medicare"

When talking to locals during Teabagger Summer, it was MUCH easier to get them to agree that EVERYBODY should be able to BUY Medicare if they wanted to.
They Understood Medicare.

But as soon as I said "Public Option" or "Single Payer", their eyes glazed over and they started spitting fire about the Government taking over Health Care.
WORD.

Expanding "Medicare" eligibility WAS the best way to SELL reform.
THEY understood Medicare.
They LIKED Medicare.
Changing the terms was a HUGE fuck up.

The KISS Principle applied here.
(Keep It Simple Stupid!)

[SmileyRose]

21. Tell that to the grandmas screaming about wanting their country back.

Even a Republican understands Medicare has worked miracles in quality of life and longevity for those covered under it now.

[daggahead]

11. Wish I could REC this multiple times! n/t

[TBF]

12. K&R nt

[ellenfl]

14. k&r eom

[area51]

15. As I will not stop bringing this up, either.

This nation believes in single-payer police and fire departments, single-payer roads, libraries and schools, and we have every right not to have our tax dollars stolen from us and thrown at the military for two wars of choice and bases all over the world. We need to take care of us first.

Each day, 273 people die due to lack of health care in the U.S.

We need single-payer health care, not a welfare bailout for the serial-killer insurance agencies.

[bvar22]

17. Afternoon Kick!

When is that "They'll Fix It Later" stuff going to start?

[bigwillq]

18. K and R (nt)

[Cal33]

20. I sure wish us all the luck in the world.