Think Progress: Howard Dean on Single-Payer Health Care

[Hissyspit]

Run time: 02:02 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HWH5xJ37L8   Posted on YouTube: March 04, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: March 05, 2009 By DU Member: Hissyspit Views on DU: 540

 

[midnight]

1. Last sentence makes me wonder why we have tolerated this

inefficient private sector crap. And Dr. Dean is right-Give us the choice.

[Faryn Balyncd]

2. Dean's plan is good & specifies that any plan that has NO PUBLIC OPTION is NOT a "reform" at all...

K&R

Dean's plan is in marked contrast to "White House advisor" Zeke Emanuel's (Rahm's brother) proposal to PRIVATIZE/("voucherize")Medicare, and eliminate a public option for future retirees:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5180499


While both Dean's plan & Zeke Emanuel's voucher plan both provide choies, the long term results of each plan would likely be diametrically opposite:

Dean would allow younger Americans to "buy in" to Medicare, and the result is that escalating insurance prices would encourage more and more to choose this option, possibly leading to a mostly Single Payer plan in the future.

Zeke Emanuel's plan would ELIMINATE public plans, leaving only private options. It would destroy our only approximation of Single Payer.

This plan would likely be a permanent POISON PILL for Single Payer that insurance interests have always wanted.

We should be listening to Howard Dean, not Zeke Emanuel.

[Divine Discontent]

3. thanks. eom.

[madfloridian]

4. Thanks for posting that....

I was on the look-out for it.

Much appreciated. I think we are going to have to fight to keep any option that is not private insurance. Like Dean said on one show last week...we have only one chance to get it right. And that's it.