American People Must Demand Single Payer, Universal Health Care, Not Half Measures From This Administration
| The criminal Bush regime thought everything was just hunky-dory with health care and the billions their corporate cronies in that industry makes in profit, while 50 million were without health care coverage; 18,000 died every year due to lack of health care coverage; and those that had coverage through their employer (the basis for the failed system in this country) could hardly afford it as they were made to shoulder more of the costs. Multimillionaire Bush, a hypocrite who was covered by government health care, coldly crowed that, after all, everyone had access to a hospital emergency room. Nothing has changed yet, other than Bush the former disastrous, worst president ever, is making $$$ speechifying and has not been impeached for war crimes and other high crimes and misdemeanors; and the terrible numbers above keep increasing. However, will the health care reform under the Obama administration make a real difference in this country that lags so far behind health care in other industrialized nations whose people have single payer, government administered, universal health care coverage, as a human right, not a commodity? Actually, no, not unless the people demand it, says Donna Smith at CommonDreams.org: "If you think the bonuses you are paying to AIG executives or the money flow from AIG bailout funds to foreign banks is shocking, wait until you get a load of what will be sold to you as healthcare reform. That is, unless we all actually call the hand right now and tell Congress we will hold them directly accountable should they set us up for healthcare collapse by funding huge healthcare insurance company CEO bonuses with our money. "Listen to the plans. We’ll all be mandated to pay for health insurance. Since we’ll have to catch those who won’t pay the forced premiums, we’ll have to pay taxes to support enforcement operations to make sure we all purchase health insurance. And, if some of the Senators get their way, we’ll be taxed on any coverage we are forced to purchase through our employers (even President Obama is now saying he’ll consider that too). Does this sound like universal, guaranteed healthcare to you? "Me neither. It sounds like a Ponzi scheme-like bailout of the health insurance and large corporate hospitals. But they'll do their best to make it sound like we’re buying into health reform. "John Wasik reported in Bloomberg last week that 14,000 Americans are losing their employer-based private health insurance benefits every day right now. 14,000 every single day. How anxious do you suppose those insurance companies are to replace those lost customers? And if I keep seeing Karen Ignagni, CEO of America’s Health insurance Plans (AHIP), front and center at every White House healthcare forum and at the front of the room in every Senate briefing, I’ll be 100 percent certain that the strings on this puppet show are being deftly controlled by corporate insurance giants. "We will get what we allow Congress to pass. "What we’ll actually be buying will be more of what we have now. People will still have care denied. People will still go bankrupt. Moms with cancer will still fight with insurance companies while they prepare their children to live without them (as Obama’s mother did). "Unless we uncover the scam and stay clearly on the message of what we want and what we fought to elect this President to do, we will get a lot less than we need to secure the basic human right of healthcare. And a year or two from now we’ll gather around our TV sets and computers and show our rage at the insurance and hospital corporation CEO bonuses paid for with our forced participation in the scheme. We can stop it. We can stop it now. "We can pass publicly funded, privately delivered healthcare for all. But we have to stand together to say we understand what they are trying to pull off and it won’t work. Come to Des Moines this Monday morning and stand with us to tell those meeting inside the third regional White House Forum on Health Reform we want single payer now. "Let’s stand together before we allow the scheme to move forward: "Monday, March 23rd @ 9:00 a.m., |
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