Obama's leaving out single-payer in March 5 meeting
At the Congressional Black Caucus last week, Cong. John Conyers approached Pres. Barack Obama to ask for an invitation to the March 5 meeting Obama is having on healthcare for the nation. It seems Obama denied the request.
So no one who is an advocate of single-payer healthcare--including the man responsible for HR 676, a viable method of providing Medicare for everyone in the country while boosting the economy--will be at the meeting during which Obama may well decide the future of American healthcare.
Why? Beats me. The last I heard, Obama was open to hearing every option, and he'd only dismiss something if it didn't have support (as well as not being any good).
There's lots of support for HR 676 and single-payer healthcare. There's more and more evidence that the Massachusetts system, which word has it Obama is leaning towards, doesn't work.
I wish I had time to give you all the cites, sites, and specifics about this, but I've got to get off to a doctor's appointment to deal with strep throat. But there's been plenty written about this.
What needs to happen now is that Obama needs to be told by everyone who realizes that healthcare for all is central to this country's spiritual as well as economic recovery that single-payer healthcare is on the table for the majority of Americans who have it described to them without inflammatory rhetoric from the Right and the insurance companies.
Get Conyers and representatives from Physicians for a National Health Plan, the California Nurses' Association, and the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care to Obama's meeting! Do it now!
So no one who is an advocate of single-payer healthcare--including the man responsible for HR 676, a viable method of providing Medicare for everyone in the country while boosting the economy--will be at the meeting during which Obama may well decide the future of American healthcare.
Why? Beats me. The last I heard, Obama was open to hearing every option, and he'd only dismiss something if it didn't have support (as well as not being any good).
There's lots of support for HR 676 and single-payer healthcare. There's more and more evidence that the Massachusetts system, which word has it Obama is leaning towards, doesn't work.
I wish I had time to give you all the cites, sites, and specifics about this, but I've got to get off to a doctor's appointment to deal with strep throat. But there's been plenty written about this.
What needs to happen now is that Obama needs to be told by everyone who realizes that healthcare for all is central to this country's spiritual as well as economic recovery that single-payer healthcare is on the table for the majority of Americans who have it described to them without inflammatory rhetoric from the Right and the insurance companies.
Get Conyers and representatives from Physicians for a National Health Plan, the California Nurses' Association, and the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care to Obama's meeting! Do it now!
