Medicare for ALL!

[Joanne98]

We should have stuck to this in the first place!

Let get this going so we can take back the House on this ONE issue!

By the time 2012 gets here they're will be 60 Americans without healthcare!

The public is not going to be happy with the Republicans. They wanted jobs and all they're getting is tax cut for the rich, healthcare repeal, investigations and abortion wars!

Medicare for all is simple and a majority want it.

Pay for it with defense spending cuts and tax raises for the rich!

Keep it simple stupid.

And just for FUN let's repeal heathcare for federal judges!

Send a message to Roberts before he activates again!

Let's get going!

[truedelphi]

1. K & R. One very good thing about the HCR Act going down -

Should it remain down and out - the 500 billion dollars (that is - one half of a trillion bucks) that the HCR Act would be cutting from medicare will not occur. Ever.

So at least that program will have some solvency.

And then we can start campaigning for Medicare for all.

[Maine_Nurse]

2. Not without MAJOR changes...

We've already had hospitals close departments and private docs call it quits because of our large percentage of patients with Medicare and Medicaid. The re-imbursement just doesn't cut it.

If things like that could be worked out, I'd be all for it

[Catherina]

5. Working that out goes without saying. n/t

[Maine_Nurse]

7. No it doesn't, these are politicians we are dealing with...

Maine already has around 500,000-550,000 of our 1.3 million citizens on Medicare or Medicaid (about a 50/50 split). Our hospitals have been 3-5 years without reimbursement for performed procedures on the Medicaid side. Then a lovely law gets passed that is going to increase Medicaid by 50,000+ more citizens here. We've already lost docs and hospital departments and it is going to get worse. Our M/M patients account for 80%+ of the patients in many areas of the state. You just can't survive as a doc or a hospital with that large a percentage of your work being reimbursed at below cost in many cases.

[Hutzpa]

3. K&R

:kick:

[Catherina]

4. Rec'd. n/t

[leftstreet]

6. K&R