[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Resurrect Medicare for All

Wed Apr 4 16:40:24 UTC 2012

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> From: "RootsAction, Aimee Allison" <info at rootsaction.org>
> Date: April 4, 2012 11:38:07 AM CDT
> To: <galliher at illinois.edu>
> Subject: Resurrect Medicare for All
> Reply-To: <info at rootsaction.org>
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> A right. Not a luxury.
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> Dear C. G.,
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> Did you follow the recent deliberations at the Supreme Court? What  
> may die is the individual mandate. What could be reborn is single- 
> payer "Medicare for All." Already 11,000 have signed onto this call  
> for a real healthcare solution.  Please join us!
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> If the U.S. Supreme Court rejects the individual mandate for  
> healthcare this summer (and even if it doesn't), we should be aware  
> that this was never a real solution and that something better is  
> available.  We should make Congress and our state legislatures aware  
> now.
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> Tell them single-payer healthcare is the way.
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> Most rich countries spend much less on healthcare and provide it for  
> everyone without mandating the purchase of health insurance from  
> private corporations.  They use non-profit systems like single-payer  
> that cut out the middleman, the bureaucracy, the advertising, and  
> the profit motive.
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> Congress has the Constitutional right to pass laws "necessary and  
> proper for carrying into execution" its powers, including providing  
> for the "general welfare."  Medicare and veterans' healthcare are  
> single-payer systems that could easily be expanded to include  
> everyone.  It is arguably not "necessary and proper" to require  
> people to buy an expensive, inadequate product from a private  
> corporation.
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> If the individual mandate ends, let's not lose heart.  Let's seize  
> the opportunity. States are moving ahead with single-payer, but  
> Obama's healthcare law included measures aimed at making it harder  
> for states to act.  Vermont has passed single-payer and is  
> struggling with these hurdles now.
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> An amendment to fix this was passed in House committee during the  
> 2009 healthcare debate but then unceremoniously stripped out by  
> Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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> Tell Congress to allow states to create single-payer now.
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> Please forward this email widely to like-minded friends.
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> Signed,
> Aimee, David, Jeff, Sarah
> and the Roots Action Team
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> P.S. Our small staff is supported by contributions from people like  
> you;your donations are greatly appreciated.
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> Resources
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> The Nation: Can We Have Health Reform Without an Individual Mandate?  
> Yes, It's Called 'Medicare for All'
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> Huffington Post: Pelosi: Single-Payer Amendment Breaks Obama's  
> Health Care Promise
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> New York Times: Letter on "The Health Care Mandate" by Arnold S.  
> Relman
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