To the Editor,
I ran into Ellen Belcher some months back at a League of
Women Voters event. I asked her about
better coverage in the Dayton Daily News on healthcare issues. I have noticed that the paper has been
devoting far more space to this important issue that affects everyone at one
time or another. The trouble is that it
is mostly bad news: People losing
coverage, Republicans contesting the PPACA, rising premiums for Medicare
patients, etc.
I am quite disappointed that there still has been nothing regarding
the movement for Single Payer healthcare also known as Improved Medicare for All. It is a grass-roots movement in the truest
sense of the word. There are so many
powerful interests and so much money involved; universal, comprehensive
healthcare in the United States will not come about unless the citizens demand
it as they did to gain other rights we have today.
There are many reasons that providing improved Medicare for
all would help our country and its citizens.
One study found that replacing the PPACA with HR 676 would replace all
the jobs lost in 2008. Several good
books have been written on the topic.
There are dozens of websites devoted to the facts and support of a
Single Payer Healthcare system. I
suggest that if you want to stem the ever-rising cost of healthcare, the bankruptcies
resulting from huge medical bills, the deaths that could be prevented if
everyone had Medicare, that you learn about and support Single Payer. Read books and visit spanohio.org, pnhp.org,
and more listed at wndavis.blogspot.com.
Nobody is going to care for your health like only you can do
by demanding a universal, comprehensive, fiscally conservative solution to our
country’s healthcare crisis. Demand what
many main-line churches, labor unions,
county and local governments have endorsed.
Sincerely,
William N. Davis, II
SPANOhio.org Region 7 Coordinator
7231 Hardwicke Pl.
Dayton, OH 45414
937-264-0377
Spanoh.region7@gmail.com
