Will you fight for single-payer?
So we know from Medicare, the VA, Canada, all of Europe, and other countries that "single-payer" plans -- Medicare for everyone -- provide better medical outcomes and better satisfaction at much lower costs than plans with private insurers, thanks to low paperwork and administrative costs, one big pool, and no profits for stockholders. Will you fight for the only system which will improve our healthcare *and* save money simultaneously?
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Sarah Lee
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Single Payer is the only sustainable program. Additionally it would aid economic recovery - in fact may be a necessary component.
Please read and see the chart:
The Public Option and The Grand Arc Of American Politics
http://www.openleft.com/diary/13404/the-public-option-and-the-grand-arc-of-american-politics -
Rich Wingerter
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Single-payer is the only option that is competitive in the global economy. We send almost a trillion dollars a year overseas to pay for what we import. One reason is because our companies are not playing on a level playing field. They are paying healthcare costs directly, while millions of people in this country don't even get healthcare. Their overseas competitors get their healthcare subsidized. We need to make sure that any healthcare plan that we institute is competitive. If the result of this isn't a plan that is at least as good as the one in Britain or France, then what's the point?
Can the progressive caucus at least take one of those plans as a starting point?
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pgowan733
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the healthcare in europe is about 60% public option, 20% single payer, 20% incredibly heavily regulated private care
in addition to that single payer has never in any country been instituted without a public option plan being in place beforehand, barring communist revolutions of course
