Sen. Johnson gets it now, but do you? (Letter to US Senate from Donna Smith, American SICKO)

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http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/blog/2007/09/sen-johnson-gets-it-now-but-do-rest.html

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It was a moving scene. Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota returned to the U.S. Senate yesterday, nine months after suffering a brain hemorrhage that nearly took his life.

I vividly remember that day. I was working at a contract position here in Denver when someone came out of our break room and said some Senator from South Dakota had a stroke or something. My stomach flipped. We had just moved from South Dakota weeks before, and Tim Johnson was one of my U.S. Senators.

When I arrived home that day to my daughter's home where we were living in a small storage room, a handwritten note was waiting in her mailbox for me. It was to me from Sen. Tim Johnson. The irony of receiving that note on that day was spooky for me. The note is on his U.S. Senate note paper, and he thanked me for my efforts to be a fair reporter in western South Dakota where most media leans heavily and easily to the far right. I still have that note and will treasure it always. It wasn't easy to report on any Democrat in western South Dakota, and it was kind of him to acknowledge that fact.

But now it is months later. I have been in Michael Moore's 'SiCKO' and to Cuba for health care, and Sen. Johnson and his family have been through hell and back with his brain injury. Both of our families have much yet to endure.
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1. We have to make this happen - Universal, single payer healthcare

It's time - past time, but we can do it!

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2. Hillary said her universal health care plan would not involve a single-payer government system.

http://www.miamiherald.com/692/story/212966.html

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Speaking later in Manchester, Clinton said her universal health care plan would not involve a single-payer government system.
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3. Well, we see where it went the last time she laid her hands on it!

No Where! Which is exactly where it will go with the insurance companies involved.
Medicare/Medicaid have proved to be far more efficient.

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4. K&R thanks n/t