Reply #18: They already have done so, they removed a not-for-profit system from the table... [View All]

[slipslidingaway]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6499259&mesg_id=6499259

Single-payer was marginalized and taken off the table during the Clinton health reform debate. We are repeating the same mistakes in 2009 by ignoring the polls which say that the majority prefer a government run, national health insurance, system similar to Medicare.

It's Time for a Real Debate on National Health Insurance - by Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

May 12,1993..."


"In 2006, a Congressional Task Force created by the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act hosted 29 town hall meetings across the U.S. to ask Americans what type of health care reform they favored. The results of the “Citizen’s Health Care Working Group” were overwhelmingly in favor of single payer health insurance..."


How do you win a fight if you silence the harshest critics of those who hold power....

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/slipslidingaway/86

Posted by slipslidingaway in General Discussion: Presidential
Wed Sep 02nd 2009, 01:04 PM

Please do not tell me that you are fighting the entrenched interests when you invite them to the discussions and private meetings and exclude those who have been fighting the For Profit companies for decades...