Eric Massa of New York’s 29th District has been making the case for single payer healthcare. The advice he was given when he decided to run for congress was, "don’t do it." As a first year congressman he’s been advised not to take a stand, especially on a hot button issue like healthcare. But rather than accept the conventional wisdom, Massa has voted against the bank bailout and fought loudly for single payer healthcare. A cancer survivor, Massa says that the healthcare system in this country is literally killing people. And Massa says that he hopes a public option is part of any healthcare bill that emerges from congress this year.
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By b4open on May 28th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
This is a joke… single payer will destroy health care in the U.S. It is really quite amazing how you liberal elitists don’t have the first damn clue when it comes to health care, economics, defense… pretty much you name it and you got it wrong. But you will continue down this road to try and satisfy your insatiable greed for power… Just think… back in the late 60’s and early 70’s it was you lefties who were against the establishment are now doing your damnedest to take over the establishment…
By frederic on May 28th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
I heard some expert explain that the Administration wants reform but doesn’t want it to be disruptive. The irony is that you can’t reform anything without disrupting the status quo. Unlike Frederic, I don’t see how the system could get much worse. Single payer is the only thing that will allow effective cost control. You can still have state-administered programs and use existing insurance companies to process claims, but the level of benefits, amount of pay-outs to providers, standards for quality control and utilization review as well as premiums need to be set at the national level- IMHO
By justbetty on May 28th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Good on you, Rep. Massa…thanks!
By WarOnWarOff on May 28th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
At last! Someone with some fire in the belly!
By TomThumb on May 28th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Good Job — throw out those names and calls us everything you can think of but please don’t engage in a discussion of the facts. Single Payer Health Care changes nothing but the method of payment to the health provider. One entity to submit a health claim to. The Office Administravive costs savings of the health care provider alone whould pay for the changes. And If Insurance Companies go broke — that’s free enterprise. The less efficient don’t survive. Try to discuss the facts instead of “name calling”
By ohbytheway on May 28th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
thank you eric massa!
By selise on May 28th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
I hope everyone has read Atul Gawande’s piece in the New Yorker about healthcare costs and how more and more doctors are treating patients as profit centers and ordering tests, procedures etc that they might not have otherwise. He in passing mentions that the pioneering groups that put patients first are all non-profits, but sadly doesn’t make that leap in his conclusions.
http://www.newyorker.com/repor…..ande?yrail
By akak on May 28th, 2009 at 6:42 pm