What Is Single Payer Health Care And Why Is It The Only Possible Solution??

If you already know why we need single payer and only single payer health care, and you want the cap to demonstrate that with, you can get it here.

Single Payer Health Care Cap: http://www.peaceteam.net/all_gifts.php

Otherwise, though we make a particular point of providing reference resources on the action page for each alert, for example the "Easy Policy Points" link on the new People's Phone Lobby action resource at ...

HR 676 People's Phone Lobby:
http://www.peaceteam.net/lobby.php?bill=HR676

or the email to Congress action page on this same issue at ...

HR 676 Email Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum998.php

we have still heard from many of you wondering what makes single payer health care so different and so necessary. Considering the fact that the whole game plan of the special medical interests gouging the American people now is to sow confusion and misinformation, we understand there is some considerable light shining required. So please read on and we will systematically dispel all fog. And then please take the time to take action at either of the links above, and speak out yet again, whatever you have the time in your life to do.

The core problem is that right now about 30% of every health care dollar goes to insurance conglomerate and big pharma overhead and profit, a large part of which represents medical WRONGFULLY and purposely denied. If you are looking for so-called death panels (actually death czars), they are the EXISTING business model in place for the corporate medical insurance industry, where single bureaucrats are under the directive to deny as much care as they can get way with. Every other major industrial country long ago switched to some kind of single payer system, where full and comprehensive health care is deemed a right of every tax paying citizen. And not one of those countries has switched back to their previous inefficient, private for profit systems.

And yet all we hear on cable TV are unrelenting lies and smears about the systems of these other countries, including demagoguery about how it's basically all some kind of commie conspiracy, as if that language was not old and tired enough already. Sean Hannity recruited some guy with a British accent to denigrate his own country's health care (which he had never actually used), only to be denounced himself by actual members of the British parliament. An investor's paper asserted that Dr. Stephen Hawking would have died if he had depended on UK health care, when in FACT it had saved his life. And when you call these liars out on their lies they just tell new and fresh ones
and keep on trucking.

What single payer does in essence is pool the medical interests of those who need care, and thereby gives them the power to negotiate, through whatever is established as the funding agency, favorable and truly competitive pricing from the medical service providers.  Government does not "take over" health care, it just takes responsibility for paying for it. And by eliminating complicated coverage bureaucracies it is a much more efficient system with lower overhead. And THAT is why it is so mortally opposed by those profitting off our existing inefficient, uneconomical system now.

We are hearing alot of talk about a so-called "public option". What exactly is the difference between that and single payer health care, you ask? The first thing you must understand about what is being called the "public option" is that it was designed to be a distraction, to give the American people a FALSE choice. What the corporate interests orchestrating this whole charade want to do is transform the debate, such as it is, into an argument about whether
there should be a "public option" or not.

But as designed, the "public option" being propounded would do NONE of the effective things that a single payer system would do. It would not give itself the clout to actual compete with the existing corrupt system. It would not eliminate the byzantine overhead as compared to the miserable mess we have now. In other words, it is being designed to FAIL. Heads they win, tails we lose. They last thing the medical insurance industry wants is actual meaningful competition, and that is why they have tried to keep true single payer out of the debate entirely, as sick as that sounds.

One symptom of this is talk over the weekend that the Senate is working on a "streamlined" proposal, because even the congressional budget office recognizes what a massive, honking scam this all is. But why do we have to reinvent the wheel? HR 676, a true single payer bill, Medicare for All, has been on the table for years already, with more sponsors in the House than any other proposal. So why don't they just pass it already? Because the insurance companies won't have it??  What about the interests of the American policy? When is it time for actual good public policy in this country for a change?

Even worse, under the guise of so-called reform, the one proposal you can count on surviving is a REQUIREMENT that you pay for whatever they come up with. You say you can't afford health insurance now and that is why you have no coverage? Well guess what, they want you to be FORCED to become a customer of these same greedy medical conglomerates, or pay effectively NO LESS for a phony "public option", all the cost of single payer with NONE of the real benefits, and it is just as sick as it sounds.

The false choice debate was in high gear this week with Pelosi demanding a "public option". Then just the next day Steny Hoyer piped up and said the "public option" might have to go. Well, it is beginning to appear more and more like Steny Hoyer will have to go, and probably Pelosi as well, if we are ever going to ever have real policy reform in this country. And the first step in that direction is to keep speaking out, something that frankly NONE of those on our
side are doing enough of right now.

The entire so-called debate, such as it is, is being driven by a tiny handful of loudmouths given over-sized coverage in the corporate media, from a couple lunatics disrupting town halls to right wing reactionaries with giant media megaphones, and those not on the corporate payroll are just too stupid to demand their salary. Yet and still, the only way they can possibly win is for us to NOT raise our voices and keep doing so.

We know the phone lobby resource is a new thing, and it may take a while for our participants to get used to using it, and to understand how powerful it will be. Right there at your finger tips are links to pop up the local district office phone numbers of your own members of Congress. Right there is a link to pop up a window of policy points to make on the phone. We have done everything we can to make it as easy to use as possible, just like our regular email action pages.

So please take the time to use one or the other

HR 676 People's Phone Lobby:
http://www.peaceteam.net/lobby.php?bill=HR676

or the email to Congress action page on this same issue at

HR 676 Email Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum998.php

Speak out again, and keep speaking out. Don't let the handful of right wing loudmouths be the only voices out there. There are so many more of us on the people's side. If you just make your voice heard there is no corporate power than can prevail against us. They are depending on your silence to cheat you out of the medical care you deserve as a citizen of the United States of America. Is this the only first world country where we CAN'T put good, public policy in place? Don't let it happen, please speak out again now.

And by the way, the new single payer health care caps are a big hit. Everyone wearing one already reports all their friends want one too. So you can get yours at the link below, or from the return page of any of our action pages above.

Single Payer Health Care Cap: http://www.peaceteam.net/all_gifts.php

And yes, you can also respond to this action through the new Twitter gateway. Just send the following Twitter reply, and add any personal comment you like.

@cxs #p998

And if you want a step by step explanation of how to set up the Twitter thing here is the link for that.

Twitter Activism Step-By-Step: http://tcxs.net/step_by_step.php

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

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