Clinton should join Sanders in supporting single payer

[eridani]

Join 81% of Democrats and Support Single-Payer Healthcare Reform

https://www.change.org/p/hillary-clinton-join-81-of-democrats-and-support-single-payer-healthcare-reform?recruiter=220025&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share_email_responsive



In recent months Hillary Clinton has targeted Bernie Sanders's support for a single-payer healthcare system, indicating that single-payer represents a tax-hike for working and middle-class families that would undermine their income. Clinton has also argued that Sanders's plan would "send health insurance to the states, turning over your and my health insurance to governors."

According to a Kaiser poll released within weeks of Clinton's comments, 81% of Democrats favor "Medicare for all," single-payer healthcare, along with 60% of Independents and almost a third of Republicans. And for good reason: virtually every country in the developed world provides better access to healthcare at half the cost using a single-payer system, or something very close to it.

Fear mongering that single payer will cut into working families' incomes through tax hikes is disingenuous, because single payer replaces sky-rocketing insurance premiums, deductibles, and co-payments with lower payroll and income taxes. A single payer system creates savings by cutting out for-profit middlemen and eliminating administrative waste, creating exactly the relief for working and middle-class families that Clinton champions.

Governors would not be allowed to undermine universal coverage under single-payer legislation introduced by Bernie Sanders in 2013. The bill gives states responsibility for issuing healthcare cards and paying providers, but requires that they cover all residents with comprehensive coverage, and puts them under federal receivership if they fail to do so. However, if Hillary Clinton is uncomfortable with state-level administration, 81% of Democrats would welcome her support for a national single-payer healthcare system!

Clinton has been a tremendous leader in so many areas, including her successful efforts to pass the Children's Health Insurance Program in 1997. Join us in calling on Hillary Clinton to support a moral and sustainable vision for healthcare by supporting single-payer healthcare reform.

[saltpoint]

1. Thinking the same. eom

[djean111]

2. Too late, methinks. Lies have been uttered.

If she did, this yet another reversal would have her spinning like a Dervish.

[eridani]

3. By the time that the public starts paying more attention, it may help n/t

[libdem4life]

4. Hillary needs a fight...that's what she does best. Without that opposing energy, nothing

can happen...it fizzles. I had a sister and an ex-husband like that. They Needed a fight and you didn't want one, they'd keep trying. Agreeing and walking away or ignoring them is the best.

And yet both of them were highly intelligent, capable and many other things as is HRC...but the relationship flaw was detrimental.

[JEB]

5. But who would have the $$$$$ to pay for speaking? nt

[SmittynMo]

6. Naw, just let her continue as is..............

It will surely destroy her campaign. Right?

[stillwaiting]

7. Failure to do so should lose her the nomination.

I would bet money that if Hillary becomes President that after her Presidency is over FEWER than 81% of Democrats will want single payer.

Having a Democratic President tell us repeatedly that single payer is something we can't do is something we MUST fight against if we truly want it.

It is a literal deal-breaker. Period.

Lives will be saved with single payer. And, Hillary Clinton is against it.