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Janice Deal
zephyrhills, FL
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Janice commented on the article |Except the one that would actually work.
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I'm just thinking... isn't this reminiscent of Cheney and his friends in the energy corporations writing America's energy policy together 8 years ago? Seriously, what do you think is going to happen?
Some folks still think Obama is somehow secretly "on our side". Me, I think he's "just not that into" single payer. I'm not wasting my time thinking he's going to pull a rabbit out of a hat any time soon. We will be taking to the streets, and in the oddest irony I've ever experienced, I will more than likely be demonstrating against the man I worked so hard to get elected. This is completely dysfunctional... denying that single payer advocates have a valid point, or that they even exist.
Watching these meetings on health care reform makes me want to ask my doctor if Zyban is right for me. -
Janice commented on the article |
Don McCanne wrote the following on Feb. 5, 2009 and this is what bothers me; with the public option on the table, "we surrender before the battle has even begun":
Removing politics from policy is an impossibility. So are we going to establish battle lines over an emasculated public option that will send us back to our corners to sulk because we failed again? Or are we going to establish those same battle lines over a bona fide single payer national health program? The alignment would be the same, but with the first option, we surrender before the battle has even begun.
You can see why some of us are leary of this "public option"... We need radical change or we will fail again. -
Janice commented on the article |
"Public competitor" still leaves the for-profit corporations in the mix and so I can see how that would be attractive and the easier way to "compromise". So does this mean that everyone at my workplace could opt out of the awful employer based coverage we have now and get something like single-payer, HR 676 offers, saving me and my corporation a lot of money?
That would truly be giving the people a vote and I can guarantee you that very few would keep the current private employer based coverage. Private plans could not compete with single payer.
IF that's what you are talking about, ...but maybe I don't understand. -
Janice commented on the article |"the insurance companies aren’t actually interested in saving money on administration. That’s where they make their dime. And no amount of government regulation is going to change their behavior, as long as they’re still in the game." Dr. David Himmelstein, Harvard professor, PHNP co-founder.
I think that Obama has done all he can do, setting the tone for eliminating pointless procedures, waste and ineffective treatments; creating computerized medical records, trimming Medicare Advantage, etc. I read that the HOW of implementing health care reforms will have to be "thrashed out by Congress". So that's where our focus needs to be.
We can talk all day about intricate details of ways to impose social responsibility on the insurance industry but it will not work. The nature of the corporation will not allow social conscience. We don't need them, we don't want them. Blaming the American people for not being "ready" for nationalized health care is a gimmick, it's a trick. Let's get down to the nitty gritty here. FOR PROFIT HEALTH CARE HAS NO PLACE IN HEALTH CARE REFORM. As long as that is not up for discussion, there is no point in talking. -
Janice commented on the article |
One man's waste is another man's profit... and one man's profit is another man's death.
Showing insurance companies how to do it right seems like another attempt to instruct the fox on how to be gentle with the chickens.
Not gonna work.
HR 676. Now. -
Janice commented on the article |Steve Coll commented about Obama and health care on Charlie Rose the other night. Here's what I took from the web.
"Almost from the beginning, the measure of (Obama's) presidency, the measure of his opportunity, is health care reform. This is a chance to complete a project that has an economic and moral imperative embedded in it, and it is the most important of his priorities.
To my mind his presidency will be remembered substantively whether he completes the project (started by LBJ). It's truly essential to managing the next generation of this country's economy, and the fiscal crisis of ... generational equity is inseparable from the problem of health care costs.... and if you don't seize the moment that's available NOW, and it's rare... it's been gathering for years and years. He's got to seize it. It's here now and it may not be here in 2010...
But where is he? And why was he waivering last week? I wonder where he is about this priority."
I talked to an aide in a US Representative's office recently who tried to temper my impatience by reminding me of the years it took for Civil Rights to be enacted. Our country, our people, our economy, our competitiveness and our survival as a nation cannot wait 40 years. I am not impatient, I am determined.
Better and brighter people than myself are saying the time is now for single payer. Joseph Steiglitz and Paul Krugman and the 16,000 members of Physicians for a National Health Plan are not wrong about this.
With $20 million dollars in lobbying efforts announced today against universal health care, now is the time to deluge congress with letters and phone calls and delegations of our own.
Someone, please get "Sicko" re-released and have one day when it is free across the country. How about an educational grant for THAT? That movie more than anything else, becomes a mirror for the American people to take a good look at themselves through the eyes of people who have access to health care as a right. This would be one positive and dramatic way to counter the media blitz we are in for from now until this fight is over. -
Janice commented on the article |Maria, Thank you for your response. And a few hours after I wrote that, I started a fund raising page for Healthcare-NOW! because I just could not make it to DC to help out with the Massachusetts health care hearing today and I wanted to do something. If you could let folks know, maybe we can help the people at Healthcare-NOW! with the work they are doing to get the word out.
I am having "Sicko" showings at libraries and house parties and I talk about HR 676 every chance I get. But I think Obama is convinced such a drastic change is not possible at this time and I am convinced it will not be possible at any other time.
Let's get some ideas going about how we can have that LOUD voice you talk about. We need to be heard and we have that right. We'll see if today's Massachusetts hearing will get something started. PNHP has all the facts and credibility we need, but there has to be some sort of coalition of all the unions, and associations, as well as all the individuals that stand behind HR 676.
People can go to johnconyers.com and endorse the bill as a citizen and again, anyone can donate to Healthcare-NOW! at my fundraising page, YOUR TURN at change.org.
Thanks Maria.
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