DISQUS

Feste · 4 months ago

The figures you quote here (trillion-dollar deficit, 36 million uninsured) are from the scoring of the INCOMPLETE bill, the version that omits the public option entirely. The scoring was requested by Senate Republicans, who knew the bill was incomplete but used the results anyway. This was extremely well publicized when the CBO report was released.

I don't think it helps the progressive cause to use shoddy research to support good positions.

Eric Cooper · 4 months ago

Good Luck Marcy! I am very disgusted in what used to be the "Democratic" party, particularly over this issue.

Rebecca Osborn · 4 months ago

I thoroughly agree that we should learn more about the "single payer" spproach to health coverage. Many other nations use "single payer", I understand.

Richie Bittner · 4 months ago

You go !!! We just got Scott Murphy elected here in upstate NY and we are trying to get him to sign on, but so far no luck, but if he goes to the Blue Dogs we'll yank our support and work to unseat him, even if it means supporting a Republican.

JGTacoma · 4 months ago

I know of no country that has ever repealed its single payer universal health care plan to return to whatever system preceded it, do you?

The idea that Obama would begin the health reform "negotiating" process by stating the minimum he will accept left him no bargaining power. Since when does anyone list their property for sale at the rock bottom price they'll accept? Now we have Rahm Emanuel telling the Wall St. Journal on 7/6 that even the public option is negotiable and Obama's statement, meant to reassure that he wants a strong public option was lily-livered weak, and the word on the street is that he has been promoting the "trigger" approach since January. It looks like "Change We Can Believe In" has morphed into "Compromise We'll Have to Settle For". Good thing I didn't "drink the kool-aid" or right about now, I'd be throwing up!

jp2506 · 4 months ago

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Clint · 4 months ago

No surprise considering the biography of the point man, Baucus. The man received more money from big Pharma and from the health insurance industry than any other Democrat.

The American people are going to have to do some serious fighting to overcome the corporate influence on health care reform. The most effective option -- single-payer -- will be hotly resisted by people like Baucus.

rosey · 4 months ago

thanks for shearing ...ou go !!! We just got Scott Murphy elected here in upstate NY and we are trying to get him to sign on, but so far no luck, but if he goes to the Blue Dogs we'll yank our support and work to unseat him, even if it means supporting a Republican...
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jasonmark · 4 months ago

HOW DO WE COVER THE WHOLE WORLD. WE ARE IN Bankruptcy. THE PROGRESSIVE WILSON SIGNING THE FED ACT OF 1913 GAVE IT ALL AWAY TO THE MOST POWERFUL
FAMILY IN THE WORLD."I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." -Woodrow Wilson, after signing the Federal Reserve into existence. ANY PERSON CAN COME HE AND GET FREE CARE.

Clint · 4 months ago

If anyone's interested, I wrote a piece this morning defending a single-payer style system, and the need to classify health care as a human right.

Paul_Fretheim · 3 months ago

The health care debate should be between those who support expansion of Medicare to create universal Single Payer, which is HR-676 and advocates of expansion of the Veterans Health Administration, which would be like the British system. Patents of the VHA have the best health outcomes at the lowest cost of any group in the U.S.A. I believe our best choice would be to expand the VHA to cover everyone. It solves the problems created by fee for service because the health care professionals are salaried, so there is no financial incentive for excessive tests or procedures.

jill champion · 3 months ago

I have been waiting for a plan that would help people in thir 50's and can not work due to the failure of our workers comp., and ca.sdi system. My case was opened in 2001 and they two just denie the proper testing for diagnose. They only push for pre-existing and have their own doctors to help prove their case against the workers comp client. God forbid they actually provide you the proper care so that you can get back in the work place. I can't wait to see the workers comp.and insurance indusrty, doctors,and attorneys that profit form our injuries all be hit and hard from the single-payer plan. Just think, they would no longer exist.
I don't know why 50% that appose s/p don't care that 98% of their premiums go to corporate investments for the rich to only get richer. Come-on people wake up and get the real facts from your public funded news stations and start fighting for your god given rights as a human being.