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rssBiggest Health Insurer Admits: We put profits before people
Who are they kidding with their new campaign?
If these insurance companies are so bad, why would we force more customers into their arms?
by MichiganD - 07/21/08
You might try working ahead of time with the Single Payer/HR-676 folks who have working for real universal health care reform all along in Ohio (of course they may have their own banners):
PNHP Ohio
Website: http://www.pnhpohio.org/
Blog: http://pnhpohio.blogspot.com/
Single-Payer Action Network, Ohio
Website: http://www.spanohio.org/
E-mail:
Health Care for All Ohio
http://healthcareforallohio.org/
Peace & Health
by Dr.SteveB - 07/21/08
EQUAL HEALTH CARE FOR ALL shows a good way forward for true health care reform to occur. I agree with the need for a single payer. HR 676 is not the answer however.
HR 676, while promoting a single payer system, transfers the other major problems from our current multi-payer system onto the single payer. Because of this, the problems associated with the British and Canadian Systems will envelop ours.
A single payer is only the first step. The greed of the other health care businesses within our health care system needs to be removed. (Hospitals, health care construction companies, pharmaceutical corporations to name just three) This can be done, while maintaining decent profitability for them, by controlling payment in an informed manner. HR 676 does not do this.
The bottom line for the HR 676 plan is still the dollar bill. A new bottom line needs to be defined--- the degree of penetration of sound, ongoing doctor/patient relationships into every American community--- and the dollar bill needs to assume a secondary, supportive role to accomplish this. HR 676 should be withdrawn, rewritten by its authors, and then resubmitted. EQUAL HEALTH CARE FOR ALL shows them how to do this.
R. Garth Kirkwood MD
http://www.equalhealthcareforall.com
by R. Garth Kirkwood MD - 07/22/08
We have experienced their greed for too long. Private insurance companies have had their chance for over 30 years and have proven that they are NOT what America needs. What we want is to be able to go get care when we need it. No denials, no delays, no recisions, no pre-existing conditions. Care not ‘insurance’ is what we need. The real solution is HR 676: publicly funded, privately delivered health care that leaves nobody out. Everybody’s in. Call your Congressperson and tell them to join the other 91 Congress men and women who are co-sponsors.
by Ludlow - 07/21/08