Comments on: Exercise our right to better health care http://pnhp.org/blog/2008/08/11/exercise-our-right-to-better-health-care/ PNHP's official blog Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:40:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: brimcmike http://pnhp.org/blog/2008/08/11/exercise-our-right-to-better-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-110 brimcmike Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:21:34 +0000 http://www.pnhp.org/blog/?p=47#comment-110 Help! Please join Medpolitics! http://medpolitics.com/ To post you need to be a practicing physician with a medical license and DEA number, etc. The place is awash with far right-wing, anti-reform, health care as commodity, free market Ayn Rand-ers, who seemingly will say anything to persuade to their agenda. Join and post about Single payer in this forum, we need multiple voices responding, and challenging the fallacies, distortions, misrepresentations and lies. Thanks! Help!

Please join Medpolitics! http://medpolitics.com/

To post you need to be a practicing physician with a medical license and DEA number, etc.

The place is awash with far right-wing, anti-reform, health care as commodity, free market Ayn Rand-ers, who seemingly will say anything to persuade to their agenda.

Join and post about Single payer in this forum, we need multiple voices responding, and challenging the fallacies, distortions, misrepresentations and lies.

Thanks!

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]]> By: thomasc http://pnhp.org/blog/2008/08/11/exercise-our-right-to-better-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-112 thomasc Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:43:02 +0000 http://www.pnhp.org/blog/?p=47#comment-112 It seems that everyone you talk to about single payer is enthusiatic about the possibility of having full coverage full time with a small "tax" ( i call it a PSA - premium substitute assessment). The odd thing is that with all this "silent support" you would think this would be easy to attain = and it would be if we ever had an articulate and supportive candidate to rally the people. Somehow we need to get rid of those codewords like socialized medicine, government medicine, loss of control, and lack of choice. Someone should ask McCain or Obama whether Medicare is socialized medicine. It clearly isn't. But if they answered yes the next logical step should be to eliminate it = not likely. If they answered no, then why not expand a program that is working so well? Another question that works well with potential supporters is " Why do we pay the head of Medicare a cabinet level salary of about $185,000 for taking responsibility for about 41 million seniors and 500,000 patients on dialysis and the chaiman of Blue Cross Massachusetts $20,000,000 for taking responsibility for only three million working class people and their families. It is a stunning contrast. SB 840 passed California only to be vetoed by Arnold - but he won't be governor much longer. He said it was "socialized medicine" but of course, didn't say what that was or why it was so bad - the term itself was sufficient. Evey day now I hear more stories about the problems of the health care system. We all do. We need to keep letter writing, bloging, speaking, and leading every day until our message is resonating in every state. It seems that everyone you talk to about single payer is enthusiatic about the possibility of having full coverage full time with a small “tax” ( i call it a PSA – premium substitute assessment). The odd thing is that with all this “silent support” you would think this would be easy to attain = and it would be if we ever had an articulate and supportive candidate to rally the people.
Somehow we need to get rid of those codewords like socialized medicine, government medicine, loss of control, and lack of choice. Someone should ask McCain or Obama whether Medicare is socialized medicine. It clearly isn’t. But if they answered yes the next logical step should be to eliminate it = not likely. If they answered no, then why not expand a program that is working so well?
Another question that works well with potential supporters is ” Why do we pay the head of Medicare a cabinet level salary of about $185,000 for taking responsibility for about 41 million seniors and 500,000 patients on dialysis and the chaiman of Blue Cross Massachusetts $20,000,000 for taking responsibility for only three million working class people and their families. It is a stunning contrast.
SB 840 passed California only to be vetoed by Arnold – but he won’t be governor much longer. He said it was “socialized medicine” but of course, didn’t say what that was or why it was so bad – the term itself was sufficient.
Evey day now I hear more stories about the problems of the health care system. We all do. We need to keep letter writing, bloging, speaking, and leading every day until our message is resonating in every state.

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