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Mike Farrell and Jess Fiedorowicz on Medicare For All, the Single Payer Solution. Visit http://tinyurl.com/cydluc to send a free fax to congress.

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• Medicare for all
• Single Payer
• Health care reform
• single-payer
• HR 676

[splashy9]

Yes! When my husband went on Medicare, it was like night and day for him. Everyone should have that option, at least.

[healthreformadvocate]

The private health insurance companies have been getting away with murder for years. They deny care, people die. They deny insurance, people die. They use YOUR premium dollars to pay for ads and campaign contributions to keep themselves in business. They are middlemen we can do without. They make profits by denying care. Why do people insist on keeping these crooks and murderers in business?!?!?? Read "Health Care Meltdown" and educate yourself. Sheeesh!

[americaontime]

Until we as American's decide to take responsiblity for ourselves instead of depending on the government, we will always be worried about bankrupting the country. The government does not have a great history of fiscal restraint.

[MsRWing]

That is BS; Medicare is not free! As soon as you turn 65, S.S. starts hounding you to take out Med.B; it costs $96+Mo, which only pays 80% of what Med, thinks the Hosp/doctor are worth; usually less than half of the Hosp/doctor costs. Then you still have to pay the 20%+ or pay a sub-insurance. S.S. threatened to take my sister's friend SS check her dead husband worked a lifetime for, if she didn't take out Med.B. My brother had Med.B & Humana, but needed $8k up front for Chemo; he didn't get it.

[econdemocracy]

Mny fallacies below.. braun1120 said "peoples hould pay their own way" but people DO pay through taxes (tho taxes are less than insurance premiums)for Medicare for All. So much for that concern. Next: "there is no discrimination..if you have health insurance"..there is discrimination against the sick, or whose with less power (if you're part of a group, the insurers are less likely to screw you than if alone)..See v=Efq3ykIeYeQ how they screwed a nurse (she had insurance)when she got cancer

[braun1120]

It is not rude to think that people should pay there own way. I meet all types of people in my business- Rich, middle class, and poor. When you have insurance there is no discrimination on which economic level you are. They all go by the same premise of what is in the policy. There are so many rules that protect the consumer but yet you think I am rude and only for the rich,

Obama reminds me of Carter 2. Just bad for America. You are still buying hope and change.

[yarwnna]

Braun-Please listen to everyone else and not just the people that run in your circle. I'm afraid you're not seeing the full picture: People don't want government to run their lives. WE have no choice except to have someone/something larger than big business that is not regulated, intervene for the rest of us. Greed has left the US and it's citizens without choice. That's rude to assume that I don't have money by the way. I'm self-employed and disabled....and insured.

[braun1120]

You just don't get it. Why doesn't the gov't just take over every business if you feel they are so well run.

Freddie mac - Failed

USPS- Failing and losing money

Insurance Companies- Turning a small and modest profit to investors. Provides Taxes to the gov't. Provides employees with a Job with good pay and benefits.

Is there are theme here?

Public sector companies do not work.

[braun1120]

I do have a job that does provide benefits. It is wonderful. Insurance can be had if you have the means to pay for it. Should I also start saving to pay for your retirement fund as well. The middle class is going to get hosed on all these new entitlements. You are buying the propaganda Obama is selling.

[braun1120]

The 47 Million is not true. 13 million are illegals. 10 million students. There are reforms that can be done to cover these people. I have never seen more regulation reduce cost. DId the price of a stamp go down recently? If it was Medicare for all, there are some costs people still cannot afford. Can you?

We can make incremental changes to imrpove it. Not dismantle. Did you actually think this was going to be for free?