Single Payer Health Systems

area51

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Thu Mar 15, 2012, 04:03 AM

Mar 2012

We have 100,000 deaths per year in this country from lack of health care.

We need Single-payer health care.

Forced private/unregulated insurance is GingrichCare; it's the 1993 republican health care plan.

"Subtitle F: Universal Coverage - Requires each citizen or lawful permanent resident to be covered under a qualified health plan or equivalent health care program by January 1, 2005."

"We will never have real reform until people's health stops being treated as a financial opportunity for corporations."

"Employer-based health insurance has always been a bad idea. Your life should not depend on who you work for." -- T. McKeon

[font face="times"]"Any proposal that sticks with our current dependence on for-profit private insurers ... will not be sustainable. And the new law will not get us to universal coverage ...." -- T.R. Reid, The Healing of America[/font]

"Despite the present hyperbole by its supporters, this latest effort will end up as just another failed reform effort littering the landscape of the last century." --John Geyman, M.D., Hijacked! The Road to Single Payer in the Aftermath of Stolen Health Care Reform

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Yeah, it's kind of sad that this is one of the least active forums on DU [View all] Leopolds Ghost Feb 2012 OP

dems president and dems congress and dems governors don't care about single payer. maybe we need msongs Feb 2012 #1

Universal single-payer is NOT dead. It's very much alive... BlueCaliDem Feb 2012 #2

Sounds important... Thanks for the link! Leopolds Ghost Mar 2012 #10

This is why Grayson shouldn't have been scoffed at! napoleon_in_rags Feb 2012 #3

+1 area51 Mar 2012 #6

100,000 deaths a year? You mean a 9/11 every 11 days? napoleon_in_rags Mar 2012 #7

Probably OPs want the greater exposure of GD eridani Feb 2012 #4

I support it, I'm just not feeling very hopeful about it right now. GreenPartyVoter Feb 2012 #5

I suspect there is little activity because almost no one here disagrees with single payer Kennah Mar 2012 #8

Thanks for the replies you guys. I don't blame people for not posting in subforums Leopolds Ghost Mar 2012 #9

Here is my idea on Single Payer Kennah Mar 2012 #11

Do you think that very pro big biz Democrats like Max Baucus are will allow real reform? ares_home Jun 2012 #12

Which party's candidate are you supporting for President? Welcome to DU. uppityperson Jun 2012 #13

On the other hand, I suspect most people on the "new" DU who post in this forum Leopolds Ghost Jun 2012 #14

Polls murphyj87 Jun 2012 #15