Comments on: What Happened to Single Payer?

By: Progressive Nation » Blog Archive » Kucinich Wants His Single Payer Amendment Back

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:28:07 +0000

[...] provision, which would allow states to set up single-payer health care systems modeled after Medicare, passed the House Education and Labor Committee in July, but was [...]

By: House Health Bill Ditches State Option to Create Single Payer System « Yuvablog

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:51:33 +0000

[...] July, single-payer health care advocates won a prominent victory when the House Education and Labor Committee approved [...]

By: Health Care Needs Reforming – 3 Short Stories | Confessions of a Former Political Junkie

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:56:57 +0000

[...] example, the cheapest and most rational approach to health care, single payer, is off the table. Also in serious risk of being dumped are health care mandates (another cost-saver) and the [...]

By: rbarre

rbarre — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:03:45 +0000

Jeri Jenkins needs a reality check. We barter human life (health care) for money? She, and all health care practitioners are PAID by someone, usually those that receive services. Does she think services should be for free? Maybe RN's and doctors and hospitals and staff should volunteer their time. Also, anyone even the indigent who goes to a hospital room is covered, pay or not. Stupid comments like this only confuse the healthcare issue.

By: House Panel Votes to Let States Adopt Single-Payer Health Coverage | The Lie Politic

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:25:44 +0000

[...] sponsored single-payer health care might be off the table as Congress debates its health reform strategy this summer, but if some House lawmakers get their [...]

By: samasapienza

samasapienza — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:22:01 +0000

Democratic leaders, slap those Republicans. I don't care how you voted for the lying war in Iraq neither does the general public. We blame the Republicans, know that. Why must we listen to the Republican diatribe of worthless lies to the public American taxpayer (citizens) can make their own, not for profit health insurance, through the astronomical taxes we are saddled with already. And have plenty left over for the struggling. Where do you think all the insurance profit is coming from. The uninsured, the charges to business' and individuals etc. etc. etc. Government subsidies, no. Do not make citizens subsidize the insurance companies in health care at all! When are you democrats going to get strong on a real and workable single payer public plan. You know it will work best, you know, you know, you know how to solve the problem. Please stop debating on how much you can pull the wool over the taxpayers eyes and get away with it. Where were the Republican leaders laments of an unfair financial burden to Americans when they supported that phony war in Iraq. They right up in front to lament about the financial burdens to America when it comes to serving her citizens. Where is the democratic leadership in slapping back these masters of misinformation in the Republican Congress, and unfortunately some democrats. Amazingly surprising the ones on the health care committee right now. Baucus, Todd, thats a laugh, they are so in bed with corporate health care, it would be impossible for any citizen to make any decision without an unfair conflict of interest to taxpayer (citizens). The Republicans want to stall and wait till nobody's looking, then bam, status quo. Or else push reform doomed for failure and blame democrats. Well damn it get Democratic Congressional Healthcare Reform leadership that is not biased by the health care industry to slap them Republican betrayers (some democrats) down like the way they do our president. Tell Mr Rengal, good work, sorry the rich guys cut you off.

By: Single-payer healthcare « Later On

Single-payer healthcare « Later On — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:46:32 +0000

[...] Daily life, Democrats, Government, Healthcare, Law, Obama administration at 9:46 am by LeisureGuy Mike Lillis in the Washington Independent: As Congress dives head first into what has fast become a thorny debate over health care reform, [...]

By: Obama speak on healthcare « Later On

Obama speak on healthcare « Later On — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:04:16 +0000

[...] American Medical Association, the nation’s largest doctors’ group, the president also rejected the idea of adopting a single-payer system, arguing that, in effect, it’s un-American. [Well, yeah: we don't have it. If we did, it would be [...]

By: hidflect

hidflect — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:17:59 +0000

I agree with everything Conyers says… and disagree with everything he does. This guy barks left and bites right. He seems to draw lightning to popular issues and then ground the spark to discharge it. Where the hell was his tough talk on impeachment? The guy is a cold, calculating sonoffabitch who needs to be moved out for a real action taker.

By: Hawaiian style

Hawaiian style — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:34:27 +0000

Help!!!

Could someone list the names and health care interests of the Congressional folks making the rules for the rest of us?

Can a congress person vote on a Bill when they have a conflict of interest? My little County Council has to at least declare a conflict. Or maybe Congress couldn't do that as they would be too busy declaring a conflict of interest to get any real business done.

Just remember, the real question: Will OUR Congress person vote with Big money and Big Insurance or will they vote with 100 plus million common folks that need free health care?

Health care for the middle and lower class would free up money to stimulate the economy. Even small business would have more money to grow.

We have spent over a Trillion bailing out the stock market folks with no rules on how the money is to be spent.
We have spent billions bailing out the banks and rich folks' bonuses.
We have spent billions bailing out big business.

Now is Congress really going to say to the tax payer that did all the bailing, "We will work to lower your costs, but more important we will give you a choice." Cheesh. Give me a break. We get to bail out and pay and then pay taxes.

I think we need an amendment to the Great Compassion Plan that Congress deigns to give us. We need to attach an amendment. It would read that what ever plan Congress grants us it has to change its health plan to be the same as ours.

I also think the vote on the plan should be a RECORDED VOTE, not a voice roll call vote. Further the person voting should be forced to declare his health industry financial interests.

How about this...

"I, Senator Capn from the state of Katz n Jammer, holding 10,000 shares of Blue Cross, having received 350,000 thousand dollars in contributions for each of the last 4 years, and having for myself and my family for life a completely FREE Congressional Health care plan, VOTE NO to free health care for the 110 million folks that desperately need free health care." "I do this not because I have what is an obvious conflict of interest, but because I want to preserve the right to choose for my 110 million friends. Choose and then pay that is...

Thanks, Senator, remind me how you were so concerned at the polls...