We want Single Payer - Medicare For All

We asked people in Brooklyn if they want a comprehensive national healthcare system, and if they have heard of the term "single payer" which also means "Medicare For All." Learn how to contact your congressperson about HR 676, the bill in Congress. Great websites are www.pnhp.org (Physicians for a National Health Program) and www.healthcare-now.org.

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[travelfar22]

The MAJORITY of Americans want Single-Payer like Canada

and Nader is for it! Relying on the health care "industry" as

it is now, assures you'll be considered a mere NUMBER!

18,000 Americans WILL DIE next year who lack access

to health care with our present health care "industry"!

47 Million Americans HAVE NO health care!

We The People want Single-Payer like Canada!

Vote Nader/Gonzalez 08!

[Lizzychan5]

If this system is so "ill-conceived" then why do all other industrialized nations have this single-payer system?

All nations with a single-payer system give health care to everyone, they charge less per-person than we do in America because health insurers wastes 30% of every health care dollar in administration costs, as opposed to Medicare (a government run health care) only spends 3.5% in administration costs.

If we eliminate the waste we will have more than enough to cover everyone.

[TheHAMMER77777]

FUCK THIS COMMUNIST SHIT...AND REPEAL OBAMACARE WHILE WE'RE AT IT..I KNOW ITS PRIVATE, BUT STILL SUBSIDIZED..ALL SUBSIDIES SHOULD BE STOPPED ALL

[TheHAMMER77777]

@gunsnroses2020 GOOD POINT

[TheHAMMER77777]

@travelfar22 NO THEY DON'T

[healthmusic]

@gunsnroses2020 I have to disagree; not saying it would cause no problems, but the benefits would outweigh.We don't have the world's best care, we are 37th. Yes, we have the world's best care for the filthy rich. It costs less to cover every citizen than it does to go through the extremely expensive private insurance.

Gov is not so bad, it's those who get to buy the gov; one of which is the private insurance companies.

[healthmusic]

@gusfromflorida Yes, some people will get a free ride; but it is happening anyway. It is not suppose to be that way.

[healthmusic]

@gunsnroses2020 That is bullcrap that the insurance company pirates hope you believe. The profiteers have successfully scared you and many other Americans. It is working in Canada; even Canadians who don't like their system are terrified they will be the ones having their jobs and insurance taken away.

A-For-Da-Ble Health' will save our economy

it is in the best interest of everybody.

if every job moved out of the country,

than (tell me) whose gonna pay the medical fee?

[gunsnroses2020]

@healthmusic Well, employer mandated insurance is a federal regulation. If you did not have that in the first place, you would still have a vibrant individual insurance market and your insurance would not depend on your employment status. Single payer always results in rationed and inefficient care and massive bureaucracy. Because if it were as efficient at delivering complex services, we would be okay to let govt take 100% taxes and run the entire economy top to bottom. Does't work that way.

[healthmusic]

I really like how the Afro-American restaurant owner. Our current system isn't working (except for the profiteers). I use to have halfway decent insurance through my job; than economy went bad. But, because I lost my job and insurance while in my 50's I fear I can't be re-employed at the kind of job that lets me have insurance.

[gusfromflorida]

@Rofistim fine, then we agree. have a nice day

[gusfromflorida]

@Rofistim wrong, dummy. illegal aliens use our hospitals and refuse to pay the bill. and then they have babies which automatically become U.S. citizens and qualify for welfare benefits. you cannot compare your country to the USA. you have much fewer people.