www.pbs.org [...] MARCIA ANGELL, First Female Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine: I think we have to start all over on this. I really do. I think we have to go for a single payer system. You could institute that gradually. You could do it state by state. You could do it decade by decade. You could improve Medicare. That is, make it nonprofit. But extend it down to age 55 and age 45 and age 35. It would give the private insurance industry a chance to go into hurricanes, earthquakes or something. To get out of the health business. It could be done gradually. I think that has to be done. And it’s the only thing that can be done. [...] Ready to pay insurance companies for fire insurance at www.michaelmoore.com
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@OrmEmber absolutely! But don’t turn us over to the federal government either for the love of God.
As a Canadian I can say that I have access to any doctor and specialist or hospital I want. I can tell you that in Canada you can even have abortion for free, just show your health card.
Yes there are wait times but it largely depands on the doctor and their booking practices (if you have appt) or how busy is the hospital (when you go in to emergency).
I can tell you that my daughter sees a specialist regularly and the wait time is 5-10 minutes. Her paediatrician (10-15 minutes).
if the us wanted single payer they could do it easy the uk did it in 1948 and it did it in 6 months the insurance companys are vampires feeding off the blood of every american
hick hick, socialized hick hick communism hick hick
@MsDaisy201
Not with the Affordable Care Act, because now there’s a thing called the Patient Bill of Rights in America. That regulates Health Insurers to stop and punish their abuses.
@FRSFreeStateES the advantage is that you have a choice to pay the insurance companies every penny you have and then deny you health care that you need. Or you can choose Health Care Reform that is in effect right now and helping millions.
@FRSFreeStateES you have to be a republican and a teabagger
The advantage of Private Health Insurance is that you have choice and competition and that the people not the Government decide where they get their Health Insurance and Health Care.
People who don’t what this because they will lose out on their money
the letters obama reads everyday…but he didnt even know there was a couple hundred thousand people outside his office protesting taxes and his style of government takeover?.funny, He’s a bullshit artist, sad but true
why suck u to these insurance companies bankrupt the bastards and re direct the money to system that works for the people not some wall street wanker are we going have to have a relvolution to bring back democracy in this country
@ObamaIsMyButtBoy….I’ll have you praying, babushka. I’ll have you seeing God.
@oddcoupple
okay, start the civil war, comrade??
us gun loving rednecks are ready, are you??
“or the public funding of the defense industry is socialized defense”
- would make sense… unless you forget that explicitly written in the Constitution it reads:
“To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States”.
oh yeah….. that pesky ol’ thing called the Constitution.
I worked for WellPoint, the largest insurer in the world, that owns companies you think are competitors: Aetna, Blue Cross and others. I also worked for Kaiser. My employers gloated over their bonuses and company-wide profits, even as they sent letters of denials to their customers and raised their premiums.
They don’t care about you, they just want your money. It’s cheaper for them to scare you with a boogey-man, than to cover you.
We need to kick their butts OUT of our lives.
Thank Bill for you invaluable show
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We don’t need a gradual shift but a total paradigm shift in the way we care for each other in this country…
The time is now!
Support HR 676!
Did Obama say the health issue is not about him?
OK
But is the Health Care issue about his wife and chidren and his chidren’s children?
Yep… they are, as all of us, is about us.
Michelle Obama is from Chicago… she must understand that all the people in her old neighborhood need health care… same affordable care across the board.
Support HR 676!
Michael Steele: The “overseer”
The irony is that after 2 administrations of absolute failure the republicans are still claiming they can steer this country thru the mess they created. This is about giving the public a choice and in essence stop the soaking of the american people by the insurance industry.
40 milion US uninsured citizens and US bailed out economy really need a National Health Care (Singol Payer) founded by progressive tax (not flat tax) on the capital gains.
We need to go back to the Hill Burton General Hospital System we use to have before the Wall Street Privet HMO & Insurance corporations came into power and shut them down. Check out this video. It will show you the Hill Burton Public Hospitals we use to have. YouTube: LPACTV: Franklin Roosevelt and Public Health
In order to get a single payer system, the Republican party would have to be marginalized much more than it is now. Congress would have to be Democratic through and through; and, the influential health insurance and pharma lobby would have to be weakened along with this. Right now, we just aren’t at that point yet. So, to suggest that Obama go down fighting in an effort to kill private insurance is wrong. Why expend all of his political capital on that.