a Canadian sounds off for U.S. single-payer health care
Here is the latest video on the big health insurers from Brave New Films, this time looking at Wellpoint’s efforts to sue the government of Maine for not allowing them to significantly raise premium rates.
Nothing seems to slow these health insurance companies down, give them pause, fear backlash, etc…
I guess it’s because the corporations aren’t people, just profit-seeking entities. But what about public relations as an engine of profit, as I learned in my (misguided) business school days?
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Portland, OR has passed a very progressive bill supporting single-payer, and it calls for passage of HR676 – the National Health Care Act (Single-payer) sponsored by Representative John Conyers.
Bah! So far from the single-payer that’s really needed, yet so seemingly impossible for Senate Democrats to even go to the public option. The writing was on the wall back in May when Baucus wouldn’t even let single-payer advocates into his caucus meeting on health care. He knew that might create a real debate rather than this hodgepodge of a mess there is now that the health companies can salivate over.
The Mad As Hell Doctors’ odyssey into the politics of health care reform ended Wednesday with a modest rally in Washington, D.C., and a resolve to continue the quest for single-payer medical coverage.
Six Oregon physicians left Portland Sept. 8 in a custom-painted Winnebago on a cross-country roadshow aimed at building support for a government-sponsored health plan that would cover all Americans in a single giant risk pool.
In the 1st of a wave of upcoming protests against health insurers denial of coverage approved by doctors, 16 were arrested at Aetna in New York City on September 29th.
[Photo: Associated Press]
Detroit Free Press, Sept 28th
…another letter from a fed-up Canadian tired of the lies put forth about Canadian healthcare.
