This was printed in the Dayton Daily News 10-29-11
To see what I actually submitted, find my earlier post on this blog.
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I have noticed that the
paper has been devoting far more space to health care, an 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
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, rising premiums for Medicare patients, etc.
I am disappointed that there still has been nothing
regarding the movement for single-payer health care, 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 H.R. 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 single-payer
health care 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.
-------------------- the following was all dropped.
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 Coordinator7231 Hardwicke Pl.
Dayton, OH 45414
937-264-0377
Spanoh.region7@gmail.com
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