To free us from the insurers, we need an Emancipation Proclamation

[truedelphi]

We do not need the convoluted bill that Max Baucus will surely now get away with, as the masterful cheerleader, President Obama, has glibly revved up the troops into accepting the fact that NOW IS THE TIME FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM.

Well, the only reform that would be true reform is this one

Universal Single Payer Health Care

If Lincoln could free the slaves with one proclamation, why cannot Obama do this?

"As of January 1st, 2010, every legitimate Citizen of the United States will be insured under MediCare for all. All that is necessary is providing your name, address and Social Security number."

As far as paying for the program, enter the cost of the program on the same line of the Federal Budget where Congess gets their health plans paid for.

Lincoln's Proclamation was one of the few times when a mandated reform actually was effective. The slaves were freed.

However, I cannot think of one instance of government reform after 1970 that was any type of success. Lincoln's Proclamation was not the utter failure that the Tax Reform of 1984 was, nor the utter failure of the Welfare Reform Act of the mid-nineties, nor the utter failure of the Banking Reform Act of 1999, nor the failure of "No Child Left Behind."

[joeycola]

1. But Obama wants to stay and deal with them. They will only grow bigger after

the final bill.

[DaLittle Kitty]

2. This "Plan" Represents A CONSUMER Funded BAILOUT OF BIG INSURANCE... Nothing More And Nothing Less!

I knew that the Koolaide was "sour" three years ago... It's a shame so many Listen But DO NOT HEAR! When listening to a GREAT Speech... The "contents" of which are questionable at best and deplorable at the worst!

[FiveGoodMen]

5. That is exactly the way I see it as well.

Hillary actually mentioned some of this during her primary campaign and it was one of a list of reasons that I gave up on her completely.

We started with the problem of some Americans being unable to afford health care and the discussion morphed into ways simplify life for some very bad corporations.

How fucking stupid is that?

[Riverman]

3. Enter it on the same line that cuts the Pentagon Budget in half to

help pay for it. Not one red cent of deficit spending for War, bailouts for bank, insurance and auto corporations! Now that would be change that I could believe in.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Would be fantastic!

I'm no legal scholar and can't say whether it's that simple but we'd benefit mightily from it.

If we stopped some of our pointless military adventurism we could certainly pay for it.

The failures you mention in your last paragraph are probably only failures from the perspective of the civic-minded. Those acts probably achieved exactly what they set out to.

[Laelth]

6. Hear, hear!

Even Ted Kennedy's 2007 "Medicare for All" bill, which phases in coverage of all Americans over three years would be better than the turd the Administration is trying to sell us at the moment.

Of course, an immediate switch to single-payer would be best for the majority of us, and for all of us in the long run.

Here's hoping that someone in the White House is listening.

:toast:

:dem:

-Laelth

[slipslidingaway]

7. knr - that is too simple, plus "insurance companies provide a legitimate service..."

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