NOW is the PERFECT time to DEMAND Single Payer HealthCare !

[bvar22]

The average American is already pissed to the max at the Fat Cats.
NOW is the time to put together photos of the CEOs and Top Execs of the Health Insurance Corps and HMOs along with the salaries they are drawing down, and remind America that WE are paying THEIR salaries and buying THEIR Mansions and Private Jets with our Insurance Premiums.

Tie the Health Insurance Execs to the Wall Street Bankers and Single Payer is a Done Deal.

Isn't AIG an "Insurance Company" ?

[cliffordu]

1. K&R

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Yes. This would be the best time to push for it. One can only hope

that Insurance Co lobbying and big Pharma lobbying cannot overcome the public outcry.

[annabanana]

3. There are now bills in the House (H676) and the Senate.

Bernie Sanders just introduced it in the Senate today.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5337264&mesg_id=5337264

[slipslidingaway]

4. Yes...knr n/t

[bvar22]

5. Bernie Sanders intorduced a Single Payer Bill in the Senate today.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5337264&mesg_id=5337264

Call YOUR Senator and ask them to co-sponsor.
If they say NO, ask them "Why Not".

Polls say that Americans are READY for Single Payer.
Only our government is blocking it.

38 out of 39 Industrialized Nations have some form of government gauranteed HelathCare.
It is NOT "too hard" for America.
We don't have to settle for less.

Mandatory For Profit Health Insurance is NOT Helath Care.
It is a Republican SCAM to funnel tax money into the pockets of the BIG CORPORATIONS.

[inna]

14. MEGA K&R! (i wish there was a way to rec an individual post)!!

rec #10

[stillcool]

6. Will your representatives vote for it?

Does it matter?

[slipslidingaway]

7. Video....

Obama on single payer health insurance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpAyan1fXCE


Thanks to harun for posting the video in this thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8294330&mesg_id=8294543

[bvar22]

8. That was Obama THEN (during the campaign).

What has he said lately about a alternative Non-Profit system?

[OHdem10]

9. That was then---His statements on Trade Policy have made a 180

degree turn now that he is President.

Too many broken promises this early is not good.

[slipslidingaway]

17. And it would cost too much in taxes now :( n/t

[slipslidingaway]

16. Not sure, but we did the things he said we needed to do...

took the WH, Senate and House. I did not hear him mention at that time "everybody pays a lot of taxes into the health care system..."

Now we need someone to educate and sell this to the people...President Obama???

[LWolf]

10. Now is the perfect time

to contact your congress people in both houses expressing strong support for Sanders' bill and for HR 676.

[chill_wind]

11. K & R

[wroberts189]

12. OP please send your post to Maddow and Olberman

They got the resources and viewers to do what you say.

knr

[stray cat]

13. How much are you willing to pay for single payer healthcare?

Does anyone know the percent of income that is taken out for programs in other countries? I know as a small business employer I pay between 30-40% on top of salaries for benefits ie health insurance and disability. I know I would hate to pay 30% of my income for my health insurance instead of my employer paying for it.

[dflprincess]

18. I doubt it would be as high as 30%

To begin with, a single payer system would immediately save the hundreds of millions of dollars paid in commissions to insurance brokers every single month.

With the risk were spread over the entire population, the cost should also come down. Your 30-40% is spread over a small group and you're no doubt paying more for each employee than what they would cost a large employer with our current system.

[bvar22]

21. If your employer didn't have to pay it....

...he could pass the savings along to you.

With a Single Payer system, the US Automakers could immediately knock off $1500+ from the price of an American Made Car.

[Stinky The Clown]

15. You are SO right!

K&R

[cabluedem]

19. We need to get lots of rope and find some trees to hang these executives from...

...not support their illegitimate and inhuman behaviors.

Single Payer NOW!!!

[EndElectoral]

20. K&R

[FiveGoodMen]

22. The perfect time would be when we had a president that supports it

Unfortunately, we were not given such a choice.

[fascisthunter]

23. it's why there is propaganda being spread that Single Payer is not Affordable

they know the health insurane industry is in big big trouble with Americans.

[FiveGoodMen]

25. Awfully sad to see that Obama's one of the ones spreading that propaganda, though

I can't believe he's dumb enough to be fooled, so why is he on that bandwagon?

In other words, who's he really working for?

[fascisthunter]

26. oh you know who surrounds the man

and you know he chose to surround himself with them. The only HOPE that ever existed, was us forcing our government to serve "We the People".

[area51]

24. If someone had the big bux,

I'd love to see a commercial run for single-payer, with an actor playing a health insurance company fatcat CEO, lighting cigars with (fake) $100 bills, and laughing uproariously while he takes a large rubber stamp and stamps "DENIED" on health insurance claims.

[dkofos]

27. Unless we do like the French and take to the streets by the tens of millions

we will get nothing.