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Bob Haiducek
Midland, MI
Retired. Unpaid volunteer within the Health Care for All movement for non-profit single-payer national health insurance. Employed for 1 year registering thousands of hospital outpatients. Now am a full-time researcher and activist, including maintaining http://www.goodhealthforall.org My health insurance premiums literally sky-rocketing (600% in 6 yrs). I and my young family lived for five years in one of the other industrialized countries, ALL of which have non-profit financing of health care and NONE of which have any citizen worry about health care bills. Those other countries have significantly better health, yet they pay less than half per person what we pay. This is simple stuff, and most of the people I know or I meet from other countries are astonished at why this greatest country in the world does not have the common sense to get non-profit financing of health care as soon as we possibly can.
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Bob commented on the petition |This is an unbelievably bad action for your company to be in any way associated with communications about corporation brands or any corporate objectives. You need to recover your now-tarnished image.
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Yes. Correct. Single-payer is the way to go.
Non-profit single-payer national health insurance.
Our national health insurance will "pool together" our money to cover the risk that we as individuals might need health care. We will have one and only one "risk pool." The fairest and most efficient "risk pool" of all is to have only one single-payer involved. That will be the way that we pay for health care. We each pay into only one place to help ensure that all medical bills are paid.
There are 15,000 physicians who have joined PNHP, Physicians for a National Health Program.
The physicians' organization PNHP was established over 20 years ago. The stated mission of PNHP is this: single-payer national health insurance. You can see it on their home page: "Our Mission: Single-Payer National Health Insurance."
http://www.pnhp.org/
The resolution that proposes single-payer is H.R. 676. The title of that proposed legislation is this: "United States National Health Insurance Act"
http://www.medicareforall.org/pages/HR676
Within the last 1-2 years some person or person(s) or a group(s) came up with this nonsense point that we should not be talking about health insurance. It is, at a minimum, a distraction.
I respectfully request that whoever started to make this "point" take the lead to stop it. David, if you agree with the majority on this topic that have worked on this for 10 to 20 years and if you are a member of CNA, perhaps you could submit the request that they get off this "kick" or whatever you would call it. It is not time for a dilution of our efforts. It is a time for standardization of terms so that we can move forward in an organized fashion. (This is not the time for the "NIH Syndrome" that at least CNA has been practicing.) By the way, on an activity that has nothing to do with CNA: one of the biggest things that has ever happened in the last two years is that PNHP didn't change its stated mission just because they had a nationally-known speaker tell us at an annual meeting in November 2007 that we should not use "single-payer." Yeah for consistency! Yeah for simplicity! Yeah for standardization, organization, and a vision of success! Our goal is clear in the national Health Care for All movement: non-profit single-payer national health insurance!
Improved Medicare for All! So keep up the good work on the solid momentum of joining the Million Letters Campaign!
http://www.ninenineohnine.org/pages/Get_Monthly_Reminders
Regards, Bob Haiducek Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate -
Bob commented on the article |
Jason, I don't know about anyone else who is reading this blog, but I think your high level and somewhat dismissive answer to Michael at 3/14 10:15AM PST is quite inappropriate.
You just wrote "... wouldn't agree ...", which not only is a black and white statement (would NOT) but is a black and white statement about other individuals' opinions. Maybe you are tired of this exercise or maybe you were just having a bad moment, but please express yourself appropriately. Please don't respond to us with your opinions put into the mouths of others, at least not Uwe Reinhardt's. Michael made multiple points, and I find at least some of what he wrote as potential good matches to the opinion of Uwe Reinhardt.
Michael documents very clearly that he is not only uninsured but that he is in dire need of health care. Some sensitivity on your part would seem to be mighty appropriate, perhaps giving a response that would have touched on one or more of his multiple concerns and the implied questions that can be concluded from those concerns.
Michael, please contact me ... send me your phone number, and I'll call you. Currently I don't have time to compose a set of replies to your comments and concerns at this blog, but I'd be glad to discuss your concerns and offer my input.
http://www.medicareforall.org/preview/Contact_Bob
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