[Peace-discuss] Fw: Single Payer and the Supreme Court (Single-Payer Action)

[David Johnson]

Well Wayne,

The point is that it is long overdue that the health care system in the U.S. become like the rest of the civilized world, where people are not denied health care and die as a result or lose their homes because of an operation and a prolonged stay in the hospital.
On a personal note, I am profoundly grateful to Rob Blagoavich (sp. ) and Illinois Kid Care. 
My daughter had chest pains last month and my wife took her to the emergency room. After five hours of tests they couldn't determine what was wrong. She began to feel better by the end of the day. We got the hospital bill last Thursday for $ 4593.00, but our amount due was $ 0, thanks to Illinois KidCare.

The U.S. has the highest health care costs in the world yet is ranked 37th in quality of care world-wide, worse than Cuba and Costa Rica and slightly better than Uzbekistan.

What rubs me the wrong way about the Obama phony health care bill is that it forces people by threat of a fine to buy an over-priced inferior product and prevents states like Vermont from having their own single-payer system which the voters overwhelming approved and also prevents the republican govenor of North Dakota from establishing a state single-buyer of prescription drugs from Canada for the citizens of North Dakota.
As an example, when I quit my job at the School district and went to buy my monthly supply of high blood pressure medicine without health insurance. It cost $ 108.00 for a ONE MONTH supply of pills. Immediately after that experience I found a place in Canada on-line to buy the very same perscription and dose and it cost me $ 123.00 for a SIX MONTH supply.

My German national wife has lived under a national health care system and the U.S. system and she states emphaticly that we in the U.S. are getting ripped-off with higher prices and inferior care.

If someone wants to have private health insurance be my guest, but I resent the fact ( to put it mildly ) that I ( and others in the U.S. ) are  prevented from having a REAL public option, that being Medicare part E....Medicare for EVERYONE who wants it.

David Johnson   
 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: E. Wayne Johnson 
  To: David Johnson 
  Cc: 'Peace-discuss' 
  Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 7:12 PM
  Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Fw: Single Payer and the Supreme Court (Single-Payer Action)


  Why am I not surprised that 50 bloodthirsty medical doctors want to create
  a public entity with unlimited funding?  Amici my ass.  A rose by any other name
  would smell so sweet.

  Obot & Co. will hardly allow the hand that supports them and their cronies to be bitten.

  The single payer movement has lofty and worthwhile goals.  However I dont
  think that the movement understands the nature or the character of the industry
  that they want to revolutionize.

  On 3/26/2012 5:49 AM, David Johnson wrote: 

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: David Sladky 
    Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 1:13 PM
    Subject: Fwd: Single Payer and the Supreme Court (Single-Payer Action)











    ----- Forwarded Message -----
    Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:23:43 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Russell Mokhiber <action at singlepayeraction.org>
    Reply-To: action at singlepayeraction.org
    Subject: Single Payer and the Supreme Court

      Last month, Single Payer Action, It's Our Economy and a group of 50 doctors filed a brief with the Supreme Court.

      We called on the Court to strike down Obama's mandate. 

      The mandate that requires every American citizen to buy a product from private health insurance corporations.

      We argued that we should instead get rid of the private health insurance corporations.

      And replace them with one single payer -- everybody in, nobody out.

      The brief has gained support from some unlikely sources -- including Dr. Arnold Relman -- former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.

      On Tuesday March 27, 2012 at 8:30 am, we will take our argument to the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court.

      As you can see, our sign says -- Single Payer Now, Strike Down Obama Mandate.

      If you are in the area, hope you can join us.

      If not, check in for updates at singlepayeraction.org.

      Onward to Single Payer

      Russell Mokhiber

      Single Payer Action





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