I WANT SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE! FUCK YOU, INSURANCE!!!

[PretzelWarrior]

this is my mantra. I saw the Bill Moyers program and had long understood what single payer was all about. Hey, you stupid fat assholes rolling in dough! You just got obseleted like our call center people and apparently auto workers. We don't NEED YOUR FUCKING HAND IN THE TILL taking our hard earned money so you can rub cocao butter on your fat ass in Mykonos.

Time to cut out the leeches and get the money to government agency to pay doctors and hospitals for our care. Write to your congressman or woman THIS WEEK.

[leftstreet]

1. K&R

[boppers]

2. Good luck defeating the "insurance" lobby.

Really, that's not sarcasm, our bills are ~6K a month. Me and Ms. bop would have to make $72,000 a year just to cover basic meds... no food, rent, cars, or anything else, that's just the meds.

I assume a large part of that is people "adding value" by processing paperwork, taking out TV ads, lobbying congress, and printing endless amounts of advertising telling me why I should be super-happy to pay them money, to pay six times the cost of we'd get in Canada, the UK, or France.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

3. this country is slipping into a depression

and things may get bad enough that Uncle Sam can't take our money to bail out any more
insurance cos.

Too bad the banks were allowed to start selling insurance.

But when we go even broke-er than we are now, it may be that we get single payer.

Many companies aren't paying for insurance any more.

[PretzelWarrior]

5. health insurance has become pigs feeding at the trough. kick them to the curb.

we don't need them. Just fire their asses and tell them the facts. We voters don't care how many fancy golf retreats they sent Tom DeLay or Max Baucus on. We voters don't care how many antiques Max Baucus could purchase with his bribe money from BIG INSURANCE. We will still vote his bony ass out of the Senate. Because he's fucking with us, his employers.

I'm not kidding. I want a grass roots effort to hold a figurative gun to that slime's head and tell him the nation will mobilize to get him voted out and someone else voted in.

We'll keep doing that until those fuckers get the point. We're not stopping til we get single payer insurance. PERIOD.

[PretzelWarrior]

4. Our country should have had enough of this "ownership" society bullshit people spout.

Our country and quality of life are appreciably worse than they were before the RepubliCONs took power in 1994 and ESPECIALLY before old Bushie stepped onto the national stage as the thief of what was rightfully Al Gore's.

We must say no to these insurance companies by saying no to the MOTHERFUCKING JACKASSES taking their money and then jerking them off with whatever legislation they want.

I believe this calls for widespread civil disobedience. They just will not get it rammed through their fucking heads until everyone getting the shaft says NO FUCKING MORE!!!

I'm tired of my mom and dad and good friends paying their last cents so some fat fuck can bounce a young Brazilian off his putrid flesh in his $10,000 per night resort cabana.

Time to fire all of these horrible horrible people running the show in the insurance industry.

While we're at it. Send a few credit card company executives to prison for life for the savage usury they've perpetrated.

[patrice]

6. May 30th is a National Day of Action for Single Payer

http://www.pnhp.org/

In this area, we are going to meet on our state capital building steps, but I would stand in front of my Representative or Senator's office to. In fact, the Green Party has committed to doing that here on a regular basis, starting May 30. I'm a Democrat, but the GP is expecting to get some real mileage out of this issue.

[PretzelWarrior]

13. that's exciting! I am hoping the nurses are our salvation on this.

they seem like a pretty activated bunch when I see how strongly they reacted in California to the Governator.

[snowdays]

20. but they need our help--in all the states. Show up if you can.

[patrice]

26. I work around nurses. They are the most anti-BS people I know.

[handmade34]

35. also

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

[PretzelWarrior]

37. glad people are putting these links up.

I just linked to it on my Facebook page. I hope others spread the word too. I have so many real world past classmates, acquaintances, family, etc. who are conservative or lean in that direction who need to hear this stuff too.

[depakid]

7. If you have the time- check this out:

Health Care Town Hall with Governor Dean at Portland Community College-Cascade Campus on June 5 at 3:30 p.m.

http://www.earlblumenauer.com/media/health_care_signup.html

[PretzelWarrior]

9. THANK YOU! I will definitely be showing up there

I just marked it on my calendar. Hearing Earl and Dr. Dean speak will be terrific.

[depakid]

12. Be sure to reserve tickets at the link

and have some questions ready!

[PretzelWarrior]

32. done and done. thanks for the link

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

8. HR 676 now has 77 co-sponsors in addition to Congressman John Conyers

Ask your congress critter to support, see this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=222x60379

[Lasher]

17. I just asked my rep to cosponsor it.

I don't see any good alternative to HR 676.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

10. 28 US Senators want single payer on the table

here they are:

Kennedy and Sens. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ted Kaufman (D-Del.), Roland W. Burris (D-Ill.), Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.).

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=640E497C-18FE-70B2-A837AA723F0D3D02

[PretzelWarrior]

11. My GOD, I'm glad we voted out Gordon Smith and got Merkley in.

However, I don't see Ron Wyden on there. I'll be phoning/writing his office on this matter.

[UrbScotty]

18. Glad to see both of Michigan's senators on that list!

[Adelante]

23. Is that what they're saying?

They want some sort of public option, but is it clear this puts single payer on the table? I'm not sure.

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and 27 co-sponsors introduced a resolution Thursday demanding that any health care reform bill include a public insurance option.

The “sense of the Senate” resolution is the latest effort by a bloc of Democratic senators to influence the closed-door negotiations of the Finance Committee, where the bulk of the bill is being written. The group wrote a letter last month to Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Health Committee Chairman Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), calling the public option essential to reform.

-snip

The debate, though, centers on exactly how to construct a public plan. Some members of the Finance Committee have been giving consideration to a “fallback” plan, which would trigger a public insurance option if private competition proves inadequate in a geographic region.

Brown’s resolution does not stipulate what form a public plan should take — only that the legislation must provide one in order to give consumers choices.

[snowdays]

25. No, this does not put single payer on the table....

Baucus himself is not into the public option--or only half hearted!!

[ejpoeta]

30. glad to see both of my senators on there.

[slipslidingaway]

31. A public insurance option is not single-payer. n/t

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

14. Tuesday: Picket Sen "No Single Payer" Baucus in San Francisco at DSCC meeting

Picket Senator Max Baucus - He has been banning discussion of Single Payer in DC


6pm Tues. May 26 in SF
2436 Jackson St – San Francisco
between Steiner and Fillmore in Pacific Heights


Dear Healthcare Activist,

We just found out that Senator Max Baucus of Montana is the featured speaker at a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee meeting on Tuesday evening.

He has banned discussion of single payer legislation in his Finance Committee hearings. So far, he has had 13 doctors and nurses arrested for trying to bring up a discussion of single payer.

Can you picket with us on Tuesday from 6pm to 7pm at 2436 Jackson St?
Can you forward this alert?
Can you help call our phone tree?

Please bring a sign.

Suggested signs


Why is Senator Baucus Banning Discussion of Single Payer?

We Demand a Discussion of All Healthcare Options

Put Single Payer on the Table

Healthcare Yes! Insurance Companies No!

Support HR 676

Thank you.

Don Bechler
Chair - Single Payer Now
415-695-7891

[PretzelWarrior]

15. this is great! I hope people inside and outside the area support this picket.

[PretzelWarrior]

16. Senator MAXIMUM DEBAUCHERY should go down in defeat if he refuses

to discuss single payer health care option in his committee hearings. THe people have spoken Senator Asshole!!!!!!! WE pay your check. Not the insurance companies. You will get no more donations from them once we throw you out on your ass. WE WILL MOBILIZE ON YOUR ASS!

[snowdays]

19. Call their offices. both in DC and your home state NOW please.

[PretzelWarrior]

41. Agreed. It takes a little time and effort. BUT WORTH IT

[snowdays]

21. K and rec

[snowdays]

22. COWARD Baucus Flees From Single Payer Advocates

I had posted this last week but it deserves to be reposted.



Published on Thursday, May 21, 2009 by CommonDreams.org


Baucus Flees From Single Payer Advocates

by Single Payer Action

Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) drove up to the front door of the Kaiser Family Foundation in downtown Washington, D.C. this morning.

His initial idea - park on G Street in front of the office building - and walk in the front door to meet reporters gathered inside.

But activists from Single Payer Action were out front, waiting to question Baucus about why, over the past two weeks, he ordered thirteen of them arrested, handcuffed, and charged with "disruption of Congress."

Upon seeing the activists gathered at the front door, Baucus drove down a back alley to a rear service entrance.

The activists followed him down the back alley.

Baucus pulled up to Kaiser's service entrance.

A large metal door opened.

"I asked Baucus to roll down his window so I could ask him a question," said Russell Mokhiber of Single Payer Action and the first of person arrested at the Senate Finance Committee on May 5. "But he shook his head no."

Baucus drove into the service entrance and the security guards rolled down the metal door. (Video to follow.).....

[snowdays]

24. **Link to Moyers show on single payer.....

In case anyone missed it.


Forum Name General Discussion: Presidential
Topic subject Link to video and transcript...
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8430099#8430443
8430443, Link to video and transcript...
Posted by slipslidingaway on Mon May-25-09 11:27 AM

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05222009/profile2.html

[stray cat]

27. I want to win the lottery too

[avaistheone1]

44. I want a black president.

Got that.

Now time for single-payer health insurance.

Now IS the time.

[NorthCarolina]

28. You, and 66% of US Citizens (at a minimum) n/t

[snowdays]

29. Kick for health care for ALL

[handmade34]

33. May 30th repeat until everyone knows

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

[prolesunited]

34. I remember that it used to require a well thought-out narrative

to gather any recs around here. Now you just have to shout "fuck you" and the thread keeps bouncing to the top of the page.

[PretzelWarrior]

36. that's because people are MAD!!! that we are being told NO by our own leaders

so the narrative is quite well placed in our consciousness and what we need now is anger and action. Just whining on a message board or even eloquently elucidating a point of view on a message board isn't going to matter to anyone. So that is why you see the recs.

[prolesunited]

38. I see anger. Where's the action?

:shrug:

[PretzelWarrior]

39. well, I wrote letters to my congressmen based on Bill Moyers article

and I am now encouraging others to do so. I see numerous links to events people can attend in California and elsewhere for May 30. I was given a link to a symposium by Rep. Earl Blumenaur and Governor Howard Dean on health care that I didn't even know was happening. SO now I registered to go to that on June 5.


That is just in half a day's time. More to come. But thanks for asking. I also hate when people get on here and just rant and don't use it as a vehicle for activity.

[debbierlus]

40. Amen

Eom.

[PretzelWarrior]

42. I'm kicking my own thread in the ass

[Delphinus]

43. I'll do it for you now.

Huge KICK! :kick:

[area51]

45. Kick on this life-and-death issue.

Confused by insurance industry lies on single-payer?

Get answers here.

[cooolandrew]

46. Good for you apply pressure, keep tweaking consciences.