rssA Senate Vote on Medicare-for-All?
Monday, December 14, 2009 at 5:10 pm
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It’s looking that way.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the only member of the upper chamber to endorse single-payer health coverage, said Monday that he plans to introduce an amendment to the Democrats’ health reform legislation that would establish a Medicare-for-all insurance system.
We have got to understand that one of the reasons that our current health care system is so expensive, so wasteful, so bureaucratic, so inefficient, is that it is heavily dominated by private health insurance companies whose only goal in life is to make as much money as they can. [...]
The result is [that] we are wasting about $400 billion a year on administrative costs, profiteering, high CEO compensation packages, advertising and all the other stuff which goes with the goal of private insurance companies to make as much money as [they] can.
Michael Briggs, spokesman for Sanders, said Monday that Democratic leaders have indicated that Sanders’ single-payer proposal could be fourth in line among the amendments to get a vote on the Senate floor — the first vote of its kind in the history of the upper chamber. That the provision is certain not to pass hasn’t discouraged the Vermont Independent.
“I am not naive. I know that we will lose that vote,” Sanders said. “But … at the end of the day — not this year, not next year, but sometime in the future — this country will understand that if we’re going to provide comprehensive, quality care to all of our people, the only way we will do that is through a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system.”
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Comment posted December 14, 2009 @ 6:52 pm
“We have got to understand that one of the reasons that our current health care system is so expensive, so wasteful, so bureaucratic, so inefficient, is that it is heavily dominated by private health insurance companies whose only goal in life is to make as much money as they can.”
They are doing it for money? Who would have thought? It's sad that we need people like Sen. Sanders to stand up and point out the blatantly obvious to us sometimes. Anyone who says that companies like United Healthcare want to get you well is either a fool or on the payroll.
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Comment posted December 15, 2009 @ 5:26 pm
12-15-2009 Senator Ernie is the only advocate/activitist that we Americans have in our Senate and in our country for “We the people”. His amendment to the Democrats’ health reform legislation that would establish a Medicare-for-all insurance system is a must choice for ALL AMERICANS and must be FIRST in line to get a vote on the Senate floor TODAY. HARRY, are you listening to me as I represent the majority of “we the people”? You no longer represent me as a long time Democrat from my state of Nevada and are nothing less than a traitor. I have no special interest in this proposed amendment by Ernie, which I trust and support. I only speak for Americans. Are you listening to me from your cozy Wash. D.C. wealthy “bubble”? ERNIE MUST BE FIRST IN LINE!!!!!
Betty Kelly, M.D.
Carson City NV 89704
Comment posted December 15, 2009 @ 10:26 pm
12-15-2009 Senator Ernie is the only advocate/activitist that we Americans have in our Senate and in our country for “We the people”. His amendment to the Democrats’ health reform legislation that would establish a Medicare-for-all insurance system is a must choice for ALL AMERICANS and must be FIRST in line to get a vote on the Senate floor TODAY. HARRY, are you listening to me as I represent the majority of “we the people”? You no longer represent me as a long time Democrat from my state of Nevada and are nothing less than a traitor. I have no special interest in this proposed amendment by Ernie, which I trust and support. I only speak for Americans. Are you listening to me from your cozy Wash. D.C. wealthy “bubble”? ERNIE MUST BE FIRST IN LINE!!!!!
Betty Kelly, M.D.
Carson City NV 89704
Pingback posted January 3, 2011 @ 3:13 pm
[...] pitch over the last few decades has typically come down to some variation on the idea that it’s Medicare-for-all. Medicare is popular, the thinking goes, and pitching single payer as Medicare-for-all will make it [...]
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