Obama ignores single payer in healthcare summit

[DCUPtoejuice]

Obama made health care WORSE! The two best options are free market followed by single payer.

[FRSFreeStateES]

President Obama never considered Single Payer and Medicare for all because he doesn't support it. And he knew he would've never passed it out of Congress.

[Stockpile1]

In Soviet Russia, healthcare ignores you.

[iratetruth]

icon- I KNOW THIS OFF TOPIC BUT

I LOVE LIFE.

[phizbin]

We need to look at an american single payer system that has been in place for 30 years - Hawaii !!!

Everything is more expensive in Hawaii, except their healthcare. (Tied for lowest in 50 states)

If it can work there - it can work here !!!

Also - a single payer system is not socialized medicine - johnnorvaisas needs to determine the difference...

[perseverance8]

Centralized planning is a major cause to our current economic ailments and also partly responsible in reguard to our health care industry/system due to heavy centralized palanning by the state (government). Roughtly 50% of our healthcare system IS ALREADY centralized/socailized and look where we are! It seems a bit foolish to disreguard the presence of this reality and its effect on our healthcare system in reguards to POSITIVES & NEGATIVES.

[treid100182]

single-payer is cheaper than our present system. Also, the amount that one would be taxed for universal healthcare, would be less than the co-pays and deductibles of a private insurer.

[johnnorvaisas]

If u take away the financial incentives, there won't be enough people becoming doctors or companies finding evidence based cures.

[odetomy]

Doctors are walking away now and companies aren't doing much to find any cures for anything. Just look around. When was the last time a cure for anything was found? We can't even get past Chemo and radiation, that does more harm than good (in fact actually kills people)! Yet, they've managed to patent human genes, so no research can be done for certain genetic cancers! How did that happen? Big Company CEO's have rule of the roost these days! Yeah...that's our Capitalistic system for ya!!

[johnnorvaisas]

They are not walking away as fast as doctors are in Canada please wake up you're dead wrong!

[johnnorvaisas]

Single payer =more government not a good idea.

[bpartoens]

Single Payer works in Belgium. It is the land of Smurfs, great beer, better chocolate and some of the best health care in the world. When I bring this up at social events, people call me a commie. These people can't even find Belgium on a map (oh yes, Belgium has one of the best education systems in the world, so they can find us on a map).

No health care for our elected thugs who have the audacity to vote themselves raises.

Everybody in(not just you on the Hill in Washington), Nobody out.

[johnnorvaisas]

Belgium are you joking?

Wow you compare a country the size of Delaware to America you people are nuts!

It may work in Belgium due to the small size of people they take care of.Come on think before you post this socialist dribble.

[bpartoens]

Germany also uses the same system. That is where Belgium shaped their system from. If you go to PBS Frontline they have a program by T.R. Reid "Sick around the World". It explains the German model and the method in which it works.

Socialist dribble- guess the USA has socialized police, firemen, k-12 schools and a USA highway system. The USA is becoming a Fascist state anyway. Whe government runs companies or vice versa you have Fascism.

[johnnorvaisas]

And Germany has alot of private companies because the public plan is a joke and people know it.

I was talking federal government like medicare it is run poorly and going bankrupt social security is drained and running out of money.

We don't need another poorly run branch of government if we somehow get a single payer system it will make our taxes skyrocket and it will put millions of people out of work that work for the great health insurance companies.

[bugsspam]

it will be too late before america wakes up AND america becomes socialist....

[johnnorvaisas]

We are doomed if we become socialist!

High taxes less good health care much less doctors yeah that's what i want.

You people are insane!

[samiemma]

Obama was the change people were looking for?

The insurance companies are in charge.

How is that change?

[SupportWeThePeopleKB]

Capitol Hill's massive resistance is about money and fear that the insurance industry will crucify them in the next election. How was it that Rep. Conyers, author of HR676, was not on the invitation list to the WHHC Summit? Look at the ridiculous PBS Frontline turnaround: "Sick Around the World" showed not-for-profit health plan success in several other countries, then drew absurd, unsupported conclusions in their "Sick Around America" program so TR Reid, the director withdrew involvement.

[OmarThePug]

Obama is a big fraud ( now delete me ) !!!

Wake up!

 1 star!

[womblefree]

Why are my comments being deleted?

all i said is this was Ralph Naders big idea and perhaps thats why Obama is ignoring it and of course the insurance lobby

[BABIEBABIE7]

I think that Obama needs to wake up and take a hard look at the facts...the people of the U.S. are TIRED of the federal government and it's screw-ups,wars, bailouts, corporate welfare, illegal alien pampering, Congressional whoredom, banking charities, etc. All they can do effectively is make more & more laws to choke up and incarcerate the people- to support the behemoth judicial system and the "prisons for profit". And to tax w/o representation or votes-robbing the poor to give to the rich...

[Diipole]

Yeah the audio and video hardly ever sync on Democracy now You Tube updates.. wonder why...

[maplespak]

Your last few posts the audio does not synch up with the video.

[micahgee]

why do almost all DN videos have the sound not in sync with the video??