Physicians for a National Health Plan Statement on OWS

[Jackpine Radical]

Doctors Support Occupy Wall Street Because Wall Street Is Occupying Health Care

We support Occupy Wall Street because the private health
insurance industry exemplifies the OWS movement's central tenet: its
unchecked corporate greed tramples human need.

We support OWS because economic and social inequalities make our patients sick.

We support OWS because we reject a system that forces us
to treat patients differently based on the types of insurance they
have and what kinds of treatments they can "afford."

We support OWS because we believe in evidence, and
evidence shows us that profit-driven health care raises costs and
lowers quality. It's unhealthy for the 99%; only CEOs and stockholders
benefit.

We support OWS because our political leaders, held
hostage by corporate money, reject evidence-based health policies such
as a single payer reform that would save both lives and money.

We support OWS because the health care economy „like
the overall economy„ has more than sufficient resources to take care
of 100%, but the resources are siphoned off by profit-driven
corporations in the interest of the 1%.

We support OWS because we took the oath to do no harm,
and our corrupt political and economic systems are doing all of us
harm.

We support OWS because we are hopeful that we can change our society.
(from PNHP)

[suffragette]

1. Hearty K&R

[Scuba]

2. K&R Thanks for posting Jackpine!

[Duer 157099]

3. Bravo n/t

[RufusTFirefly]

4. Major K and R!

Most people are so used to -- and beaten down by -- our current system that they don't realize -- or can no longer acknowledge -- just how barbaric it is.

[MedleyMisty]

5. I had an ulcer this summer

Passed out and went into convulsions on the way into the ER, and I needed three units of blood.

The GI specialist who was assigned to me was the best doctor ever, and I love him, and I know he'd be behind OWS. He really cared about his patients, and he talked about how 2011 was a stressful year for a lot of people and how he'd been seeing more ulcers as a result of that. Doctors rule!