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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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Do you have proof that those hired by the overnment will be inept?
Go to the department of motor vehicles.
I just googled this:
It is widely assumed that the private sector is ‘obviously’ more efficient than the public sector. It is supposed that private companies have demonstrated their superiority in performance, and that this reflects the theoretically expected superiority of markets over bureaucracies under political control. On the basis of these assumptions, much current debate about policy in infrastructure and services assumes that achieving private sector operation is an objective in itself, and is always a desirable result.
Guild Member since 2009
That is the thing about insurance - it pools risk.
I read the paper.
Times a wasting, put you ideas here!
http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/ideas/ideaList.apexp?lsi=1&category=Health+Care
I think there's a reason they call it 'Postalworker Syndrome' and not 'UPS Syndrome.'
Before they started to specifically talk about water systems this was stated:
Guild Member since 2009
Guild Member since 2009
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