HR676 - The Single Payer Solution, Part 3 of 4

The most important piece of legislation in America today, with nearly 100 cosponsors in the house, H.R.676 is the only health care bill that will truly reform our tragically broken health care system.

This is the bill that your insurance company doesn't want you to know about. This is the bill that presidential candidates (except Kucinich) are afraid to talk about, presumably because they like to keep getting campaign contributions from the insurance industry.

What would you think about a health care system that actually works for everybody, costs billions of dollars less, provides greater coverage, truly protects you from financial ruin due to medical bills, improves quality, increases innovation, and returns medical decisions to you and your doctor instead of some claims adjuster at an insurance company 1,000 miles away.

31 cents of every health care dollar spent is wasted on administrative expenses and insurer profits in the US system. This is why the US spends double what other industialized nations spend on health care yet has worse outcomes. We need to save that money and spend it on better health care for you, me, and all Americans. Our system is sick and dying, and this is the cure.

This footage was take primarily from Congressional testimony given earlier in 2007.

To support H.R.676, contact your congressman. (202) 224-3121 www.house.gov

For more information, contact:
California Nurses Association www.calnurses.org
Physicians for a National Health Program www.pnhp.org
Healthcare-NOW! www.healthcare-now.org


Be sure to check out the other 3 parts of this short video for the rest of the story, and spread the word!!!

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[Spytheweb]

Single payer is a payment system. Everyone in, everybody pays a payroll tax, 3.3%. No high premiums, no deductibles, no co-pays. no more in network doctors or hospital bull go anywhere you want, see any doctor you want. Everyone's covered, lose job, covered, move out of state?, covered. Get cancer, you're covered. No denials. How can Walmart sell $4.00 drugs, they have a big pool, who has a bigger pool? We the people of the USA. What service does insurance provide for their 31% cut?

[chillende]

There's another myth that I keep hearing of. It's the one where the forefathers of America wanted what we want for ourselves in this day and age. They had their interests and now we have ours. Romanticizing American history is neither necessary nor based on any accurate analysis of American history. Let's focus on us and make that focus BASED on our perspectives. We need universal health care period.

[panathabro]

@Spytheweb brilliant!

[Johntkr]

Healthcare companies take 1 out of every 3 dollars. So the ones that do not come up with new medicine or treat people medically make as much or more money as those who do.

[PatchesRips]

"Here's what the CBO stated"

Congressmen? You mean all those people who pocket hundreds of thousands of dollars every year from HMOs?

Dude, stand up and be a CITIZEN, for God's sake. Stop volunteering to be bleating fodder for the wolves of the insurance industry.

[PatchesRips]

"I hoping that when people read this blog, they see the insanity of a single payer system."

I live in a single-payer system. My dad was saved from a stroke last year by a single-payer system. He didn't have to wait; he didn't have to pay or lose his home or his savings. No one cut his coverage because he was now a liability. Now if you consider any or all of that insane, well, all I can say is, bring on the straight jackets... one for every citizen for the United States.

[elnegrobembon]

that's the best way i've seen the single-payer system described...

thanks for informing people on this really important issue..

[rwcbanzai]

Single payer or die broke!

Headstorm follow up interview those denied medical care.

[Spytheweb]

hoorano,

December, 2007: Kansas

Single Payer would save $869 million

The Kansas Health Policy Authority hired the consulting firm of Schramm-Raleigh to do a fiscal analysis of five options for expanding coverage. They found that single payer (the Mountain plan) would cover all the uninsured and reduce state health spending by $869 million annually. The other plans would cover a portion of the uninsured and would raise costs between $150 million to $500 million in the state.

[seriousnews2]

It is kind of amazing some "people" think health costs are like buying a car or any other commercial proposition (eg: all the insurance co-sponsored posts on Youtube by varying "people"). You can plan to buy a car or a house: it's your own responsibility and your money allocation--but you can't plan a medical affliction. Not the same. I simply note one anti-health plan person on Ytube had her two fave videos as a) a revolver shooting into a tank, and b) a clip of Milton F'man on "Greed". True!!