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

Fri Mar 30 18:53:56 UTC 2012

Some discussion from the left that the Supremes' tossing of Obamacare would be good news b/c Obama'd hafta revisit Single Payer, to be promoted as Medicare For All... which for sure would ensure his November win. Anybody care to weigh in on this? 

--- On Sun, 3/25/12, David Johnson <dlj725 at hughes.net> wrote:

From: David Johnson <dlj725 at hughes.net>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Fw: Single Payer and the Supreme Court (Single-Payer Action)
To: "E. Wayne Johnson" <ewj at pigs.ag>
Cc: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Date: Sunday, March 25, 2012, 8:58 PM

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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