Health care reform is coming...

[averygoodun42]

But maybe not as much as is needed.

I sent this email to some of you personally, but since I feel so strongly about this issue, I'm trying to get the word out even further. I know some of you do not agree with this approach (god-damned commies! ;-), but I firmly believe that it is the most economically and morally responsible course to take.

So:


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Call The White House: Let Single Payer In

On Thursday, March 5, 2009, the White House will host a summit on how to reform health care.

The 120 invited guests include lobbyists for various interest groups including the private insurance industry (AHIP), some members of Congress including Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, who has already ruled single payer "off the table," and various others concerned with health care.

No single payer advocates have been invited to attend.

Please urge President Obama to fulfill his promise for transparency and openness in government.

Call The White House (202) 456-1414 or (202) 456-1111.

Tell them to let single payer into the White House Summit on health care.

Distributed by:
All Unions Committee For Single Payer Health Care--HR 676
c/o Nurses Professional Organization (NPO)
1169 Eastern Parkway, Suite 2218
Louisville, KY 40217
(502) 636 1551
Email: nursenpo@aol.com
http://unionsforsinglepayerHR676.org

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Not all invited to Obama's Summit on Health Care 

Email Pres. Obama: What happened to Openess and Transparency?

Published by Swing State.
March 3, 2009

One group is being left out of the White House's health reform forum Thursday: supporters of single payer health care.

President Obama has promised an open discussion as he begins an aggressive push for health care reform. Obama said Monday he is "bringing together business and labor, doctors and insurers, Democrats and Republicans" to discuss.

Progressive Democrats of America and Physicians for a National Health Program, leading proponents of expanding Medicare, government-run health care to cover all Americans, have not been invited and are "seeking" an invitation.

John Conyers, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, has become Congress' leader for single payer. He has authored H.R. 676, the model bill for single payer advocates, which has 59 cosponsors. He too has not yet received an invitation.

Liberal health consumer advocate groups such as Families USA and Health Care for America Now are invited and are attending. Neither plan to push single payer.

Even Obama's new nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius' own newly implemented state agency, the Kansas Health Policy Authority, recommended single payer as one of four policy options. Despite the government agency's determination that single payer would be the cheapest, Kansas has also decided to reject that route thus far.

Despite President Obama's pledge for an open discussion where every position has a seat at the table, one idea seems to be off the table


PS: Socialist that I am, I maybe should reiterate that I am actually in favor of the free market system.  As I, and many others, see it, a single payer health care system would actually support free market enterprise (except for insurance) bettere than our current system, as it would put all businesses on more even footing, allowing small businesses to compete more profitably with big corporations.

Socialism does not equal communism.  Socialism works very well with capitalism.  Very well, indeed.