Ed On Single-Payer

"The only cure for our problem is a single payer, national, universal, health financing program like Medicare for All. This is not socialized medicine, but an efficient way to pool risk and share the unexpected costs of illness. Fifty percent of our population has virtually no medical expenses while five percent consume 25 percent of all personal medical care costs. This why we need the insurance principle: unexpected medical expenses are relatively rare and can be huge and should be spread across the whole population. Financial costs related to illness cause over 50 percent of personal bankruptcies in the United States. Over 46 million Americans are rationed out of the medical system (and during this economic catastrophe this number is growing by 10,000 people per day) 46 million people are subject to excess morbidity and mortality because they cannot afford financing and the insurance industry cannot profit from them. Health insurance is important and necessary. We need an efficient, national, publicaly sponsored, universal health financing system. This is the only treatment that will be a cure."

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News & Politics

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• Single-Payer Healthcare
• Ed Shultz
• MSNBC
• Barack Obama
• Dr. Margaret Flowers
• universal healthcare
• Keith Olbermann

[AutumnRaine6]

I am dumb founded because of America's lack of response to this blatant abuse of power. Are we really going to sit back and let the government ARREST educated, concerned, tax paying citizens for simply asking for "a seat at the table"?

Instead of discussing the merits of single payer here -- where no one knows what facts are true -- why don't we demand that they receive A SEAT AT THE TABLE! They are the experts!! They have data they would like to share! GIVE THEM A SEAT!

[LoveToday8]

Co-ops are crap. Do some research.

It's also still government run if the government will give it start-up money.

Why not have single payer and avoid a huge waste of Americans tax dollars?

[FRSFreeStateES]

Single Payer Health Care has never been on the table in America because its never had the votes.

[wiz9496]

@lava200 Brave? Stupid is more like it.

[coolbreezed]

If I am willing to pay more to a doctor for treatment then why should I have to wait behind those who pay less?

That's what I don't get about single payer.

Single payer puts people who work hard and make the right lifestyle and financial decisions throughout their lives on the same level as those who do not.

If we are going to have any meaningful healthcare reform in the U.S. it has to start with protections of a person's ability to contract individually with their HC provider.

[elnegrobembon]

funny how canadians, and pretty much every other industrialized countries who have single payer, think otherwise... and they've had it for decades...

[FluxCapacitor2008]

Yes republics and some democrats want to keep the insurance industry cash cow this is how they stay in power, the republics and some democrats work for big business. This is why the republicans go after the Unions, Unions fund the democrats because some of them work for the meddle class. The middle class out numbers the upper class so the big business power base that runs our government with money, dont want people to organize.

[lazrul]

I'm not sure anyone knows why we arent going for single payer. The opposition to it doesnt even seem to know exactly why they are opposing it. I think we all know it's inevitable and that the opposition has deeper more sinister issues for opposing it...

[LoveToday8]

Sure once employers stop stagnating wages.

[TheGorgonops]

The Truth Ministry sent ED to straighten us all out.

[TheAdamTheory]

If we had the gold standard, less regulation, and a less corrupt cartel of medical schooling, health insurance would be much cheaper. People would not be forced to pay or be covered.

If you don't want it, you don't have to have it.