Mad as hell across the country

[Hannah Bell]

A SMALL group of Oregon-based doctors and their supporters is getting ready for a cross-country tour to demand health care reform that will actually work to end the crisis--a government-run single-payer system that would cover everyone and cut out the private insurance industry. The doctors' "Care-A-Van" will start out September 8 on a journey from Portland, Ore., to Washington, D.C.

The trip will include town hall meetings on health care along the way. But these forums won't be like the ones sponsored by Washington politicians, where right-wingers denounced all reform...Even before those town halls occurred, the Democrats conceded on a series of crucial questions, leaving their legislation "toothless" and giving the insurance industry everything it could have hoped for.

In contrast, the town halls organized for the six physicians, who call themselves the "Mad As Hell Doctors," will seek to educate people about single-payer and get people involved in the movement fighting for a rational health care system.

...the vast majority of the U.S. public supports some type of global government-run system for all citizens. Yet the term "universal health care" has been expropriated by Democrats to mean "mandated coverage"--something like the health care scheme imposed in Massachusetts in 2004 that requires all residents to purchase some form of coverage, likely from a private company, or face tax penalties...

Getting real information about single-payer out there is half the reason for the Mad As Hell Care-A-Van, according to Dr. Mike Huntington, a radiologist from Corvallis, Ore...

http://socialistworker.org/2009/09/01/mad-as-hell-cross-country

[renate]

1. I heard Dr. Huntington on Ron Reagan's show a while ago

... and kind of fell in love.

But I hadn't heard it was called a "Care-A-Van"--how adorable is that?

[Cirque du So-What]

2. A bit too adorable for my tastes

but if it resonates with the people, I wish the good doctors Godspeed!

[1]

3. i talked to my neighbor today. she is pissed...

we should all talk to our neighbors.

[Hannah Bell]

4. kik

[dugaresa]

5. most rational people are pissed, whether they have insurance or not

those that are uninsured want it, but can't afford it or are denied it because of pre-existing conditions.
those that have it are being gouged by high premiums even if they get it through their employer.