American SiCKO Adrian Campbell Montgomery at White House Regional Health

[lame54]

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[trthnd4jstc]

1. Health Care for All is a Human Right!

[cooolandrew]

2. I don't think single payer would have to make health insurance illegal just optional>

I wouldn't want to antagonize the health industry that much, even as bad as they have been in some cases. There could be higher levels of special treatment they could insure. Just for the majority they would have access.

[unapatriciated]

3. Antagonize who? The Insurance Industry?

Doctors support universal health care: survey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of U.S. doctors now favor switching to a national health care plan and fewer than a third oppose the idea, according to a survey published on Monday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN3143203520080331?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

http://www.pnhp.org/
Our Mission: Single-Payer National Health Insurance
Greg Silver, MD (Fl.)
The U.S. spends twice as much as other industrialized nations on health care, $7,129 per capita. Yet our system performs poorly in comparison and still leaves 47 million without health coverage and millions more inadequately covered.
This is because private insurance bureaucracy and paperwork consume one-third (31 percent) of every health care dollar. Streamlining payment through a single nonprofit payer would save more than $350 billion per year, enough to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all Americans.

http://www.naturalnews.com/021921.html
Nurses launch national "Scrubs for SiCKO" campaign to endorse universal health care following Michael Moore's film
Starting June 29th, the launch day of the SiCKO documentary, nurses, doctors and other health care practitioners are launching a national campaign to urge support for a shift to a universal health care system. They'll be handing out flyers and recruiting people to support a campaign to shift America away from its current greed-based system of medicine to one that offers universal health care to everyone


http://www.guaranteedhealthcare.org/
Whizbang computer systems are not the panacea for fixing healthcare
It's time to lay to rest the myth that spending billions on more high tech is the salvation for rising healthcare costs. Some people will peddle any notion to avoid addressing the best way to rein in costs, pushing the insurance companies out of the way with a single payer system.
It's become an article of faith that a national system of electronic medical records would produce huge savings. President Obama made it a centerpiece of his healthcare plan during the campaign (as did Sen. John McCain), and has emphasized it repeatedly in legislation and speeches.
As a first step, the stimulus bill allotted $17 billion in incentives to prod doctors and hospitals to get on board during a five year period beginning in 2011, along with financial penalties if they don't.

[cooolandrew]

4. I understand all that all for single payer no doubt but they can provide that

as an extra option if folks wanted that. Most would pick single payer when they saw it in motion. And I'm not arguing to keep the private industry but phase it out so you don't meet too much resistance from them, that's all.