The Single Payer Bunch

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[Ed76638]

Seriously, the employer-based system is not good for America. This is the only country that ties health care costs to corporations. And people wonder why the jobs are leaving.

[morgenr]

Single payer is not the only way to move from employer-based insurance. If the Administration wasn't so wed to the President's false "if you like what you have you can keep it claim", then perhaps Sen. Wyden's bill would have been given more consideration. It would have accomplished this as well using a regulated, private insurance market.

[jarhead1948]

This bunch of dictators do not care about what we think.

[newsjunkieky]

This administration doesn't care about people's health, it is all about POWER!

People better frickin' wake up and wakeup soon.

[monssavmik]

@medlock01 "PS. If single payer is so good why did a Canadian PM come to the US for heart surgery?"

Hahaha, funny how that works out, eh?

[medlock01]

The rest of the world has single payer because they use US tech and medicines in their countries. Without a free market to innovate Xrays and penicillin will be the 'cutting edge'.

PS. If single payer is so good why did a Canadian PM come to the US for heart surgery?

[Yakko77]

The President and all these liberal tools want to model out govt run healthcare akin to that which is Europe, the same Europe which is now going bankrupt from all its entitlement spending. Not to worry, there are enough sheeple in this country who feel entitled to what others have earned that we'll get there soon enough. It's just a matter of time. Marx would be proud.

[DTownzz]

This is disturbing when it's all put together like this.  It appears to be all about power, and despite the rhetoric of the administration, they are actually breaking healthcare to get more power. They are actually hurting people.

[themaclady]

Gibbs is describing an oxymoron... put competition into the private system? WTF?????

[rdseheult]

The worst possible senario is for Government which has the most to gain from sick people losing their life to usurp the power needed to deny and ration this care to those very people. A single payor system will ensure this monopoly. A vote against the encumbant party this fall will prevent it.

[terpis]

I have a theory:

It means the Jacob Hacker and the President are...follow me here...not the same person. And so they have differing takes on what the public option would have been.

JH apparently saw the not-for-profit risk pooling of Public Option as likely to compete an inefficient for-profit model into a marginal, cottage industry for the rich. BO isn't interested in the long view--he supported (too weakly) the shortrun cost-reducing effects of the 'public v private' market competition.

[rkoliver1]

It's Bush's fault!

[mistergarth]

Cool. The best video I've seen supporting the currently proposed, watered-down, compromised-into-nothingness public option. It will lead to single payer! Eventually. We can only hope.

What? The makers of this video are opposed to the public option? Strange. Why do they make such a compelling case for it?

[waypasthadenough]

"Liberal" season must come or we have no future except as slaves to communism...