Get Out In the Streets And FIGHT for Universal, Single Payer Health Care

[Joanne98]

It's time to pay a LOT more attention to Single Payer Universal healthcare, time to get out in the streets to send a strong, clear message to congress and the Whitehouse.

It's one of the most important issues facing the US today. It affects the nation's industries' abilities to compete and it is an immoral, shameful situation we are now in, where people must steal, lie or lose their homes and go bankrupt so stinking, despicable politicians like Max Baucus can line their campaign bank accounts with health industry lobbyist money.

Over a million Americans a year are going bankrupt because of health issues. That is outrageous. We should be out in the streets and not just marching. Every uninsured person, every person who has a family member who has gone bankrupt or avoided getting checked when they should have-- should be out in the streets protesting and more-- a lot more. Too many lives have been ruined, too many people have died, too many families have been unbearably traumatized. It is time for Americans to tell congress that they are not going to get away with this sh*t anymore.

OEN writer Jennifer Hathaway offers a great idea based on the CSA-- community supported agriculture mode, in her article, Single Payer or CSM?. Just imagine if enough communities started their own health care programs. We're talking about it in Bucks county PA. You know what would happen? The goddamned US congress would protect the effing health insurers and make it illegal. Right? No! We need to put the fear of god into these corpo-whores.

Think I'm pissed? Hell yes.

This economic crisis includes the city of Philly being short about a billion for its budget. Maybe that's why, when my son called the 911 emergency line Saturday night, no police ever showed up. My son was beat up by a teen gang over the weekend when he went to defend his female roommate, who the gang had dragged to the ground and was pummelling. He suffered a lot of punches to the head and the rest of his body and a nasty laceration over his eye. Now, he's feeling a lot of pain in his ribs. Unfortunately, at 25, he's too old to be on my family plan. He just graduated with a degree and is looking for a job, (need a sound engineer? He's awesome) so he's uninsured.

Do you have any idea what MRIs and CAT scans cost if you are uninsured-- about four times more than the big insurers pay. That's another immoral act. The big insurers insist that they get the best rates AND that the insured pay a huge amount more. So my son didn't go to the hospital to rule out concussion or broken ribs. Fortunately, his Mom is an RN and a close friend is an ER doc, so we were not operating blind. Most uninsured people are not so fortunate. They go to the hospital and end up owing thousands of dollars. That doesn't happen in Canada, France, Italy, Germany, England, Sweden, Holland, Japan, Taiwan... and that's why the USA is not among the top 30 nations, in terms of health care.

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/Get-Out-In-the-Streets-for-by-Rob-Kall-090513-276.html

[imdjh]

1. k&R

[vanbean]

2. Why do we even have to think twice.

I heard a nurse the other day describe what health insurance really is: “Health insurance is a promise to pay for medical treatment that you need unless they can find a legal way not to have to pay up.”

That, in essence, is the core of its fault. We really do need to end this farce. It will be a hell of a battle but we must win.