OK, here is what we can expect for talking points against single-payer healthcare

[antigop]

http://www.upi.com/Health_Business/Analysis/2007/06/20/analysis_sicko_gives_congress_fever/8338/

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"The American people do not support a government takeover of the entire health care system because they know that means long waits for rationed care."
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It is NOT a "government takeover of the entire health care system".

What unadulterated BS.

[GrantDem]

1. This recent report from Media Matters paints a different picture--->>

http://mediamatters.org/progmaj/

Health care - 69 percent of Americans think it is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure all Americans have access to health coverage; 76 percent find access to health care more important than maintaining the Bush tax cuts; three in five would be willing to have their own taxes increased to achieve universal coverage.

[antigop]

2. I agree -- but I think the health insurance industry will scream what is posted in the OP n/t

[Rosemary2205]

5. The insurance industry won't get cut out completely.

The government will do exactly what it does with Medicare - outsource it to private insurance companies. Now it will make it more difficult for them to increase profits in the double digits every year..............

[redqueen]

3. Everyone should read NanceGreggs' journal on this subject

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NanceGreggs/228

[antigop]

4. Agreed -- it was a masterpiece n/t

[redqueen]

7. You'd think our elected Dems could say something equally persuasive,

eh?

I guess you'd be wrong, too...

:crazy:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. It's Communism! Communism, I tell you!

The goldarn Reds are takin' over the country. Why, if they do this commie plan -- socialized medicine, dammit; the Devil's work -- next thing ya know, the gummint will be paying our medical bills! Can't let that happen.

[jdlh8894]

9. Please help me understand.

What exactly is "single-payer" health care?

[area51]

10. You might like to read this website:

PNHP

[Justyce]

11. Here's a link with

some basic info: http://www.masscare.org/what-is-single-payer/

[Lex]

8. And we don't call public education "socialized education"

which is a point I use when people start moaning about "socialized medicine."

[area51]

12. God, that pisses me off.

"... long waits for rationed care."

We ALREADY have long waits, and we ALREADY have rationed care! It's rationed by the republinazi insurance companies, which are practicing medicine w/o a license. Republinazis make their blood money by denying treatment to people. It gives them a woody every time someone dies due to lack of affordable medical care.

[antigop]

13. Yes, true. We already have waits and rationed care.

I had to wait for days to get an MRI when my doctor told me to get one IMMEDIATELY. He was afraid I was having (or had) a stroke.