Dr. Flowers: "Stop this Abusive Health Care Situation!"

At a press conference in the House Rayburn Office Building, on May 13, 2009, Dr. Margaret Flowers shared her feelings about her role as a member of "The Baucus Eight," and its importance to the cause of Single Payer. She said: "It is time to stop this abusive health care situation" in the country! Along with seven other activists, Dr. Flowers was arrested for challenging, on May 5, 2009, the current rigged system in the Senate Dirksen Office Building. On that date, Single Payer advocates were barred from having their voices heard by the undemocratic Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, one Max Baucus (D-MT). Only the "Fat Cats" from the HMOs, Insurance and Pharmaceutical Industries were welcomed at Sen. Baucus table. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncb58qnDyxs&feature=channel_page
For background and any updates on the cause of Single Payer, see: http://www.healthcare-now.org and
http://singlepayeraction.org and http://md.pnhp.org and
http://www.prosperityagenda.us/ and http://freshaircleanpolitics.net and http://www.calnurses.org/
For additional and related videos on the Single Payer issues, go to: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=liamh2
Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), a champion of Single Payer and a fierce opponent of the immoral and illegal Iraq War, hosted the press conference. Check out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NUXEAKOtZ0&feature=channel_page and http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/

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[pluto4847]

@ddean1987

Good question.

Either get a Health Savings Account, or start investing in silver bullion.

My silver account helps me pay for my medical bills because its valued more than the dollar.

[ddean1987]

the capitalist private healthcare sector won't give me healthcare because of my pre-existing condition. what am i supposed to do to fix that?

[discountbrains]

Take the Small Business Administration they provide a lot of assistance to help small businesses be a success, but all the government gets is criticism from business and people like you. Or take the CDC, what if there was no agency keeping tract of diseases and epidemics? You are one ignorant piece of crap. What you are talking about is the military; that's where Raygun got his notion that there was a lot of government waste!

[discountbrains]

higg, you buy into that mantra of the political right. They recite the same mantra repeatedly and fools like you believe it. We are rated as 37th in the World in healthacre by the World Health Org! Yet we pay 50% to 100% more. You want to tell me about waste? You would be surprised about how frugal these agecies you mentioned are if you ever worked in one. These agencies provide many benefits to you that you don't appreciate.

[jeannettetita]

Baloney!

Anyone who wants to keep more of the same dealt out by the Bush administration that keeps so many uninsured and many more underinsured is likely thinking with his/her head in the sand. The status quo of 'healthcare' today is much more expensive than that proposed by President Obama.

[emschurch]

Apparently you have never had to have any sort of "elective" surgery. I have in the last two years and both times my insurance company made decision about when I could have those procedures. Not my doctor, not me, my insurance company. I also had to wait both times--the first time they delayed long enough that my deductible no longer applied so I got stuck with a larger portion of the bill. Its not the Baucus 8 that are killing us its the For Profit health care industry we have in the country

[timparcival]

higgs,

In front of whose gun are you standing? Not mine! (I don't own one, and never will.)

I'll die eventually too. I'm undergoing a cancer procedure in two weeks. Without the treatment I've undergone, I may have been dead for a couple of years. My spouse and I pay upwards of $17,000 a year for insurance. I'd have paid nearly $20,000 already for what I've had to undergo, and the procedure will be worth about $20,000.

Most of us DON'T HAVE that kind of money. So, we should die? Thanks.

[timparcival]

higgs,

Bureaucratically controlled, huh? Did you know that there are 400,000 employees of insurance companies nationwide whose responsibility is to turn down claims?

On what grounds do you assume that a government system is more "bureaucratic" than a corporate system? What evidence have you?

Criticized as paragons of waste BY WHOM? I can answer for you: Those who are being regulated by them.

Best healthcare in the world? What planet are you from?

[higgme1ster]

So Tim, as you think if is OK for government to force me at gunpoint to accept your world view, just have them pull the trigger. After all, Im going to die eventually. You know you really want them to. Oh, I just called my dentist for an appointment Monday only one weekday later. Then I called my Doctors office for an appointment effortlessly. I have no fear that my insurance wont pay for the visits. I greatly fear the personal privacy intrusion of Government provided healthcare.

[higgme1ster]

You are a Socialist, trusting government to provide bureaucratically controlled medical services and I am a Capitalist that understands that the private sector is the only way to continue to have the best healthcare in the World up to now. Never you mind that the IRS, the Postal Service, Dept of Ed., the VA, Commerce Dept, HUD, GAO, DOJ, the Park Service, DEA, numerous institutions - ad infinitum, are continually criticized as paragons of waste, inefficiency and incompetence.