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: 08-25-2008
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 8:53pm

Do you have proof that those hired by the overnment will be inept?


Go to the department of motor vehicles.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-25-2008
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 8:54pm
because the Blackwater people don't get the pensions and lifetime health care that the career Marine gets.
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-05-2008
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 8:58pm

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.


 

 

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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-04-2009
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 8:59pm


That is the thing about insurance - it pools risk.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-25-2008
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 9:12pm

I read the paper.

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-04-2009
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 9:13pm
So you won't be providing any proof then?

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-16-2008
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 9:23pm
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-12-2009
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 9:26pm

I think there's a reason they call it 'Postalworker Syndrome' and not 'UPS Syndrome.'


iVillage Member
Registered: 01-05-2008
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 9:26pm

Before they started to specifically talk about water systems this was stated:


 

 

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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-05-2008
In reply to: janetlz
Fri, 01-23-2009 - 9:28pm
Oh and why is that?

 

 

Guild Member since 2009

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