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lot of interest in a single payer system. One particular woman was very eloquent. She said the problem was profits, profits, profits. Another said we need to cut out the middle man--the insurance companies who add 31% to the cost of medical care according to the Physicians for Nation Healthcare Program. Another--an internist, who is for single payer health care, directed Obama to their website--
http://www.pnhp.orgObama said that what we are lacking is the political will and it must be mustered if we are to change the system, and that change can happen if we have the will and do what is necesssary to make it happen. He talked about how important it was to let your representatives in Congress know how you feel about health care, and that the lobbyists shouldn't be stronger than the people.
He will be continuing this conversation in Iowa and you you will be able to give him your thoughts on health care on his website--barackobama.com
Obama also told those assembled at the forum about his mother who died of ovarian cancer at the age of 53 and who spent down all her resources in the six months that she lived after her diagnosis and she was an international consultant on women's economic empowerment and had no healthcare coverage when she was diagnosed. I would hope that this would help Obama to understand that we must have a single payer health care system like all the other industrial countries in the world, and that as long as we have insurance companies as the middle men, we have a very inefficient and expensive system, only for those who can continue to afford it.
Ted Kennedy believes we ought to have Medicare for all. I am in agreement with him. Perhaps we could give it a new name--Americare--to show that all Americans are valued enough to have access to affordable and accessible health care.
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