Mainline churches support single payer, but...

A number of mainline churches have endorsed HR 676, unfortunately, they don't have the power or the will to effectively encourage their congregations to learn the facts and support spreading the 'good news'. I belong to a PCUSA church and I have spoken with ministers all around the area offering to speak to a group of their congregation and have received no calls. The issue is contentious to say the least. 

It's unbelievable that people are so closed-minded. The conservatives and insurance and drug companies have very effectively seen to it that Americans are brainwashed into thinking Social Security and Medicare are evil and Socialistic and that having universal, comprehensive care for all is a slippery slope to a socialist state. HOGWASH. It's not socialized medicine, it's a socialized payment system, the same as the way we have paid for fire and police protection, our armed forces, libraries, schools and the like. 

What is wrong with people today? Do they really, really support a Christian theocracy? I fear for my children's and grand children's future it their generation doesn't wake up to the political realities in this country and help take steps to maintain the rights and privileges fought for by our and prior generations.

How does U.S. healthcare stack up against other nations?

How does U.S. healthcare stack up against other nations?

Q & A on Single Payer

Americans for single payer Universal Healthcare

Michelle Ewald I just don't get out of the 33 developed nations, 32 of them have some sort of universal health care. And the one that doesn't is the USA. There are even communist countries that have it as well. Not to mention, that there are some ignorant fools that will try to say that we have the the best health care system in the world. I have to laugh at that because America ranked 37 and the last time I checked France ranked number 1. The USA also has a very high infant mortality rate. I wish some of the opponents of universal health care would explain that to me.

Bill Davis Follow the money that controls Congress. There is a LOT of money at stake in healthcare. The ones who have a big piece of the healthcare pie want to keep it. SP won't happen until the voters wake up to the fact that they are being manipulated by political advertising paid for by the powers that be. Knowledge is power and by obscuring the facts and hiding the truth, they maintain their power over ignorant Americans who would rather watch a ball game than maintain their democracy by reading outside fox news and corporate controlled media.

Keep up-to-date on health care issues

Healthcare Reform 2.0

By Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH and David Himmelstein, MD
CUNY School of Public Health, Social Research, Fall 2011
So while the American people want an expanded and improved Medicare for All — that is, a single-payer system — corporations dead-set against single-payer reform have come to dictate the agendas of both political parties. Hence, the only way to win national health insurance is to build a popular movement to counter corporate power.
http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2011/11/09/dr-steffie-woolhandler-and-dr-david-himmelstein-on-their-recent-publication-“healthcare-reform-2-0″-in-the-fall-2011-issue-of-social-research/

Healthcare Reform 2.0 (12 pages):
http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/sph/files/2011/11/783_Woolhandler-Himmelstein_719-730.pdf

Comment:

By Don McCanne, MD
This brief primer (9 short pages plus references) on Healthcare Reform 2.0 will provide little new information for those who have followed the research and educational efforts of the leadership of Physicians for a National Health Program. Nevertheless, it should be downloaded to be used as an advocacy piece to explain to others why Healthcare Reform 1.0 (Affordable Care Act) will remain a failure, and why we have to move on to Healthcare Reform 2.0 (expanded and improved Medicare for All). By distributing this, electronically or in hard copy, you can become a part of the popular movement to counter corporate power.

A beautiful Speak Up comment printed the day my letter appeared

The issue should not be "more government versus less government," but government more looking out for its everyday citizens who need its protection, and less looking out for the rich and powerful entities that can afford to buy its protection.

DDN Published letter 10-29-11

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.

 

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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

2011 Election - Ohio Issue 3

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