Dr. Jewel Crawford confronts Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, on single payer and the public option. The video comes courtesy of Sam Husseini's Washington Stakeout.
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laura – thank you so much for keeping single payer one your table!
By selise on July 6th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Great show. I was so stimulated I began a email to my Senators and Congress person and the president! Copy follows with new framing:
Dear President Obama
CC: Mrs. Obama,
Health Care for All is: HEALTH ASSURANCE NOT INSURANCE
Choice can only be achieved in health care for all by assuring we all pay into the plan at what we can afford and we are all covered – Everyone In and No One Left Out!!!!
This will be realized by “Health Assurance” not “Health Insurance”. Health Assurance is sometimes poorly called a single payer plan. The single payer is all of us including the representatives in the House of Representatives, Senate, and the President of the United States and his or her family (why should they/you not pay in?). It would be better called a “Self Insured Plan for All”. It is a simple concept and is most easily realized that health care for all is paid for by all. Everyone In No-one Out. We the people are in and insurance corporations are out. The time has come!
We have had almost 70 years of insurance corporation control of health care or lack there of. At every turn, the for profit corporate giants have denied health care to many who have paid into their policies and reaped the profits assuring the corporate CEO’s multi millions of dollars in annual salaries while saying that policy holders are not eligible for services by doctors that they would select but only doctors that are assigned under their plan. What kind of health care denial is this? Well it is not the plan that was “Pre-Approved”. It is exactly what the CEO of most peoples “Health Insurance” policies provide, the government all the way up to the president is colluding to continue the system to keep the profits of those CEO’s in just the right balance to allow the financial support of the next campaign donations. It is not a Democrat or Republican policy but a conspiracy to keep denial of service to all of us, all the people and especially the poor by the government representatives.
It has taken me a long time to figure this out. I have watched my health care costs go up and the services provided go down over the last 20 years. Health care cost for my family has gone up by many hundreds of percent. Does the average 20 year old know what a donut hole in their prescription policy means when they turn 70 years old at their retirement? Forget the “public option” and the insurance corporate CEO’s – think of “Health Assurance for All” – it is health care for all. The time for “Health Assurance for All” is here. I urge you all to think about this.
Bill Smiley
7683 Bradford Drive, Goleta CA 93117-1972
805-968-0555
bsmiley_sb@yahoo.com
By bsmiley on July 7th, 2009 at 2:41 am