The single-payer advocates who protested the Senate Finance Cmte are PATRIOTS. Rec if you agree

[brentspeak]

Thank you for making your voices heard.

:patriot:

[Mnemosyne]

1. #1 knr n/t

[mike_c]

2. they speak for me....

:patriot:

[bjobotts]

47. Without SP not for profit national HC there is no reform.Just tax dollars paying for uninsured

[bjobotts]

48. I was so proud of those protesters I cried. Those mtgs were how to profiteer more for private ins

[bjobotts]

49. The hearing was a joke with all those reps already bought it was just a show.

[bjobotts]

50. How much tax dollars do we need to give you guys to cover those uninsured huh

[bjobotts]

51. Campaign donations meant more than the good of the people.

[cyclezealot]

54. and more duplication and bandaids.

It just raises the percent of GDP going to the health care sector. This time the taxpayers are subsidizing the short comings of the insurance lobby. Hardly what the economy needs.

[Howardx]

3. you got it.

[midnight]

4. 17th rec. I have to say that watching the video made me

concerned that those who in the senate/congress laughing inbetween telling the ,protesting patriots, that they don't want to hear from them because they already have heard from folks similiar to them and already know what they are saying.

[leftstreet]

5. K&R

[nashville_brook]

6. k n r -- loud and clear.

[fascisthunter]

7. kick

[Fireweed247]

8. K&R

[cate94]

9. k & r

[Alexander]

10. K&R

[omega minimo]

11. .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5604919


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5599619&mesg_id=5599649

[guitar man]

12. K&R

we need single payer. I'm going bankrupt trying to keep my family insured and healthy and I'm sure there are plenty more like me out there. I'm tired of watching my paycheck evaporate over healthcare in this damned "private" system. I'm on my 3rd year in a row of net pay cuts due to it. I've had enough! :mad:

[Lugnut]

13. K&R

:patriot:

[mmonk]

14. Recommended.

[liberalhistorian]

15. Amen, glad to do it!

For seventy years now, we've been attempting to get justice in health care and it's about goddamned time NOW.

[MasonJar]

16. Now let's do more than rec for DU. Call Baucus and Pelosi et al.

I faxed the two yesterday and called Yarmuth asking him to be a sponsor of HR676. What else can I do? I am ready for ideas. Everyone, please do at least this much!!!!!!

[sazemisery]

17. K &R

[Ken Burch]

18. K&R

n/t.

[L. Coyote]

19. Health Care should be a NOT for Profit industry!

Get rid of insurance middle men forever.

[Enthusiast]

20. K&R

No other solution is.......................................a solution.

[Dragonfli]

21. K&R for the only representatives of "the people" that were in the room!

Yes they were very patriotic.
:patriot:

[kenfrequed]

22. Yup. Agreed

I don't even know what the Finance committee thinks it is doing. This is a clear Health and Human services matter.

[barbtries]

23. absolutely

heroes.

[lsewpershad]

24. Totally agree

They speake for me. Where can I send my donation for their defense.
Baucus should be to one to be charged.

[Upfront]

25. K&R

Yes they are!

[L0oniX]

26. Kicky

[bananas]

27. k&r nt

[Occam Bandage]

28. Stupid patriots, but patriots indeed.

[Oldtimeralso]

29. K & R and proud to help n/t

[Chiquitita]

30. We can amplify their voices by writing our representatives

K&R! This is an easy thing to do:

From Michael Moore's ACTION PAGE:
Tell Congress To Pass H.R. 676 Now
48,110 Submissions so far
Under H.R. 676 , Medicare would be extended and improved so that all individuals residing in the United States would receive high quality and affordable health care services. They would receive all medically necessary services by the physicians of their choice, with no restrictions on what providers they could visit. If implemented, the United States National Health Insurance Act would cover primary care, dental, mental health, prescription drugs, and long term care.

The one click form below will send your personal message to all your government representatives selected below, with the subject "Pass H.R. 676." At the same time you can send your personal comments only as a letter to the editor of your nearest local daily newspaper if you like

http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/what-can-i-do/petitions/pnum649.php

[Speciesamused]

42. Great link here:

I filled it out and added:

I had to help my father for 10 years because Medicare did not cover alot of his prescriptions.
He always felt bad I had to pay for his prescriptions. I did not mind. He would have wanted this.

Please Pass H.R. 676. It is the right thing to move America forward.
Thank you.

[Joe Bacon]

31. KICK! THey spoke for me!!!

Buck You Faucus!

[LWolf]

32. AGREE. nt

[louis c]

33. Absolutely (NT)

[peace frog]

34. True patriots

Thank you for your service.

[swilton]

35. K & R

I was with you all in spirit!
:bounce: :toast: :fistbump: :headbang: :yourock: :applause: :woohoo:

[Greyhound]

36. I agree,

but I hate "rec this" threads...

Oh well.
:kick: & R

[Kitty Herder]

37. K&R

[Faryn Balyncd]

38. K&R - - - Say "NO" to any mandatory private insurance/corporate welfare scheme...

We can't afford a multi-billion dollar give-away to insurance corporations that still will leave Americans without affordable PUBLIC healthcare.

We will never be able to afford (as individuals or as a nation) universal healthcare until we remove the blood-sucking insurance companies.

Health insurance corporations are not only destroying our access to affordable healthcare, they are destroying American industry & competitiveness. The cost of health insurance for retirees was a huge factor in the demise of Detroit.



We need Single Payer now.

A public option plan will give only a portion of the savings of Single Payer, but will increase the eventual likelihood of evolution into Single Payer.

But a "private plan only" mandatory insurance scheme, as the corporate-welfare Republicans - and some Democratic corporatists - are peddling, will kill Single Payer forever.

Yet we hear Democratic Senators saying Single Payer is "too divisive."

It is the corporatist sell-outs who are the truly divisive, and they should be ashamed to call themselves Democrats.

[Luminous Animal]

65. Single Payer National Day Of Action - May 30th

http://www.healthcare-now.org/campaigns/may-30th-day-of-action/

[Tommy_J]

39. True

[JimWis]

40. I agree.

[Sunnyshine]

41. KnR-They speak for me! NO to profiteering Insurance Co/HMO's/$ GODs deciding what a life is worth.

In the privacy of their board rooms- they reject and deny anyone they deem unworthy of care.

[grantcart]

43. Its hard to believe that this is a battle we still have to fight,

[Iwillnevergiveup]

44. Just 3 shy of the 200th rec

Those folks were fantastic - wish I could have been there to shake their hands and give them a pat on the back.:patriot:

[csziggy]

45. K&R

[farmboxer]

46. Yes, they are great patriots. We need health care now!

If our politicians have health care, they there is no reason why we can't have it, but the damned insurance companies are extremely greedy and will do anything to stop Universal Health Care. I am sick of bought and paid for politicans.

[eridani]

52. Not enough to just cheer them on. Jam all of the Baucus local and DC phone lines

--and fax machines. Send postcards, which don't have to be inspected for powder.

[quidam56]

53. Thank you for making OUR voices heard !

http://www.wisecountyissues.com

[harun]

55. They are patriots.

[fasttense]

56. kickitty, kick, kick, kick.

[bread_and_roses]

57. Another K & R here, I'm sick of pleading with these Corporate tools to do what we elected them to

do. Sick of calling and writing and visiting and re-explaining what I know they already know. Sick of predending that their only motivation is not corporate $$$. Sick of having to plead and beg when they know damn well people are dying while they let the Profiteers write the legislation and control their votes. Sick of their cowardice and venality and smug conviction that we'll vote for them anyway because "the other side is worse." Guess what? The other side is no "worse" for the sick who are dying, the children who are hungry, the jobless, the homeless, and the dismembered children we're blowing to bits around the world.

[scentopine]

58. Government exists to protect corporate interests

However, citizens are permitted to kiss their rings. Single file, one at a time, please.

[redqueen]

59. They need us to back them up.

We need to flood congress with letters, calls, and emails.

FLOOD.

Every day, make at least one call. Every single day.

[Butch350]

60. K&R

[erebusman]

61. k&r

There was apparently no senators there who spoke for me, thankfully these patriots were there to at least let history know that we weren't all snowblind idiots who bought into this corporatizing of human health.

Two things that should we always be wary of the 'profit' motive in are Healthcare and War. Apparently we are dedicated to being wrong in those two things as a nation for another decade.

[colsohlibgal]

62. Fighting Big Money

Huge kudos to those people, but I'm not terribly optimistic that anything we do will win the day against the millions the insurance/drug people are throwing around. It's sad, we all want to be and stay well, the people facilitating our care want to make big bucks. The wing nuts being against single payer is one thing, but there are a lot of democrats throwing us under the bus one way or another as well.

[Bozita]

63. K&R

[Plucketeer]

64. WHEN, I ask....

... will the populace of this swindled nation come to their senses???

[Political Heretic]

66. What does it have to do with patriotism?

Is that the word we use now just whenever someone does something we agree with politically?

[brentspeak]

67. They protested on behalf of their fellow American citizens, knowing they'd get arrested for doing so

Yeah, I would say that's patriotic.