Americans Want Single Payer HR676; Media and Politicians Are Telling Us Otherwise

Special Commentary by Big Dan: "If the family member who provides health care loses their job, they get four $500 checks per month. Two go towards COBRA and one goes for taxing unemployment which Reagan started. So, you have ONE $500 check per month to feed your family, pay your mortgage, pay your electricity, water, heat, and all your other bills. Then you wonder why people are losing their homes and starving. If we had single payer health care, you would keep the two checks going towards COBRA. But they should also get rid of the tax on unemployment so you could keep all your unemployment checks. This is insane that 3 of 4 unemployment checks go towards health care and taxes! I know this firsthand because I actually went through it. I am a witness."

There is a growing movement in America being disregarded by the mainstream corporate media and politicians - single payer health care HR676. The best and only solution is being purposely shut out, which should tell you it's the best. Not-For-Profit health care! Take big business out of health care!


While the Obama administration claims “all options are on the table” for healthcare reform, it’s already rejected the solution favored by most Americans, including doctors: single-payer universal healthcare. We speak with Dr. Quentin Young, perhaps the most well-known single-payer advocate in America. He was the Rev. Martin Luther King’s doctor when he lived in Chicago and a longtime friend and ally of Barack Obama. But he was noticeably not invited to Obama’s White House healthcare summit last week.

Dr. Quentin Young, Longtime Obama Confidante and Physician to MLK, Criticizes Admin's Rejection of Single-Payer Healthcare

Three of the country’s top organizations of direct care registered nurses have come together to form a new national nurses’ union that is advocating for a single-payer national health insurance program. The new union unifies the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, United American Nurses, and the Massachusetts Nurses Association into a 150,000-member association, making it the largest registered nurses union in US history. We speak with Geri Jenkins, a registered nurse and co-president of the union.

Newly Formed 150,000-Strong Nurses' Union Pushes for Single-Payer Healthcare

Russell Mokhiber, editor of Corporate Crime Reporter, has just formed a new group called “Single Payer Action” that is advocating direct action to demand a single-payer health insurance system in the United States. Today, he is burning his health insurance bill outside the national meeting of the American Health Insurance Plans in Washington, D.C.

Burn Your Health Insurance Bill Day: New Group Advocates Direct Action to Demand Single-Payer System

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What is Single Payer?

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Evangelicals for Single Payer Health Care

What is single-payer health care? And why aren't any of the candidates proposing single-payer health care?

I am paying $1,000/month ($12,000/year, or more than a full time minimum wage job) for health benefits for 2 people, me and my wife. $500 deductible for each of us, that's another $1,000. Then, coverage is 70%, so we have to pay 30% of everything. That's several more thousand dollars because my wife had an operation within the last year. Then, there's all the co-pays! Then, everytime we use it, we have to get on the phone and fight with them to cover things they are denying coverage for. People who actually have coverage, don't seek medical help and medicines because of all the deductibles/co-pays/%-not-covered. That's people who are "covered"...there's 50 million people who aren't covered by health insurance. I wonder if they want national health care? The way health care is set up now, it's a for-profit racket!

While there are differences between the health care plans offered by Democratic presidential opponents Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, neither of them is proposing a single-payer system of national health care. That's despite the endorsement of precisely such a plan last December by the American College of Physicians, the largest medical specialty organization. We speak with Dr. Rocky White, a passionate, if unusual, advocate for a single-payer health insurance program. He describes himself as an evangelical from a conservative background and is on the Board of Directors of the nonprofit Health Care for All Colorado. He has revised and updated Dr. Robert LeBow's classic book advocating single-payer health care. It's called Health Care Meltdown: Confronting the Myths and Fixing Our Failing System.

Democratic presidential rivals, Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, traded barbs over their health care proposals while campaigning in Pennsylvania this weekend. The rising cost of medical care has emerged as a key concern for voters, particularly as the economy continues to worsen. A new survey by the AFL-CIO found almost all of the respondents, most of whom were insured and employed, thought the current health care system is fundamentally broken and planned to vote for ways to change it in November.

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