Health care bill

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Registered: 10-25-2006
Health care bill
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Thu, 01-22-2009 - 11:16pm

Medicare for all....check it out and contact your legislators encouraging them to support it.

Today, January 22, 2009, the new, improved version of H.R. 676 is introduced to congress with four differences.

It will not be modeled after the Canadian plan. Instead will be similar to a Medicare for All (not socialized medicine, can pick own docs)

It will be administered by Health and Human Services

The plan is for ALL residents. H & HS will define resident.

2 years of salary up to $100K offered to displaced health insurance workers

Transition from profit hospitals to not-for profit hospitals will be accomplished in the private sector over 15 years.

http://pdamerica.org/misc/676%20Fact%20Sheet%20-%20FINAL.pdf < What the plan offers

Get the additional legislators needed to sponsor it right away. Can't wait until mid-session. Write a sentence or two supporting H.R. 676 and send to your congressional district's legislators. Spread the word. Congress.org - Congressional Directory Find and contact your federal, state, and local officials. www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

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http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/october/meet_the_new_health_.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQTBYQlQ7yM

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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-12-2009
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 5:38pm

"Not surprisingly, therefore, the report lists the US health care system as the most responsive in the world, even though the US population is the least satisfied (among the populations of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries) with the organization and funding of its health care. "


Yes, that is a good example as to why the WHO's analysis is bad.

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Registered: 01-12-2009
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 5:42pm

"Yeah, I agree like subsidizing the private insurance companies under the Modernization Act."


I may agree it is a sham, but I'm still waiting for an explanation as to why the costs of these programs were out of sight well before the Act was ever signed...

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Registered: 01-05-2008
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 5:48pm

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Here is an excellent link on the problems with our current health care system.

 

 

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Registered: 01-05-2008
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 5:51pm

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Registered: 01-05-2008
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 5:55pm

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Registered: 01-05-2008
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 6:01pm

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Registered: 01-04-2009
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 6:39pm
Even WITH capitalist greed there

 

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Registered: 01-04-2009
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 6:44pm

<And replacing them with inept, overpaid government employees who will do less work at higher cost.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-04-2009
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 6:47pm
Be nice about Blackwater.

 

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Registered: 01-04-2009
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 7:03pm

<. A Medicare card is a piece of paper with our socials in very large type. >


Would it be impossible to solve this problem?

 

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