and that we have a shortage of primary care physicians.
Each day, [a href="http://www.monthlyreview.org/0903navarro.htm" target="_blank"]273 people die due to lack of health care in the U.S.[/a]; that's 100,000 deaths per year.
We need [a href="http://www.pnhp.org/facts/singlepayer_faq.php" target="_blank"]single-payer health care[/a], not a welfare bailout for the serial-killer insurance agencies.
We don't need the GingrichCare of mandated, unregulated, for-profit insurance that is still too expensive, only pays parts of medical bills, denies claims, bankrupts and kills people.
[a href="http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2010/February/23/GOP-1993-health-reform-bill.aspx"]Republican '93 plan:[/a]
[font face="courier"]"Subtitle F: Universal Coverage - Requires each citizen or lawful permanent resident to be covered under a qualified health plan or equivalent health care program by January 1, 2005."[/font]
"Employer-based health insurance has always been a bad idea. Your life should not depend on who you work for." -- T. McKeon
[font face="times"]"Any proposal that sticks with our current dependence on for-profit private insurers ... will not be sustainable. And the new law will not get us to universal coverage ...." -- T.R. Reid,
The Healing of America[/font]
"Despite the present hyperbole by its supporters, this latest effort will end up as just another failed reform effort littering the landscape of the last century." --John Geyman, M.D.,
Hijacked! The Road to Single Payer in the Aftermath of Stolen Health Care Reform