Democratic Underground - Mr. President, Single Payer Healthcare is the only system we CAN afford !!!!

What we can NO LONGER afford to let insurance corporations skim off their 31% "administrative" cut. (regardless of whether they agree cover pre-existing conditions or not.)

The reality is, we need to spend every dime of our health care dollar on actual HEALTH CARE, not bonuses to MBA corporatists.

Poll after poll shows a majority of Americans support a Single Payer health care system.

2 recent polls have show between 53% and 65% of Americans support expanding Medicare or a public program similar to Medicare cover all Americans.

"...53% supported the idea of extending Medicare to cover all Americans, creating a government-run system; and 36% opposed it."

www.guaranteedhealthcare.org/blog/shum-pre...

Howard Dean says expanding Medicare is essential to real health care reform:

Howard Dean: Real Health Reform ‘Rises And Falls On Whether The Public Is Allowed To Choose Medicare’

“If Barack Obama’s bill gets changed to exclude the public entities, it is not health insurance reform…it rises and falls on whether the public is allowed to choose Medicare if they’re under 65 or not. If they are allowed to choose Medicare as an option, this bill will be real health care reform. If they’re not, we will be back fighting about it for another 20 years before somebody tries again.”

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Single Payer is NOT an ideal we "can't afford".....

Quite the contrary......

It happens to be, not just the best system, but the only system we CAN afford!

What we CAN NOT afford is to give a few more trillion in corporate welfare to the very insurance corporations who got us into our present health care mess, (and who make their money not by providing healthcare, but by inefficiently denying care.)

We have no business using now federal power to give the insurance corporations a government mandated monopoly.

So why have we hired a "White House adviser" who wants to PRIVATIZE MEDICARE with NO PUBLIC COMPETITION?

Isn't it time we listened to Dr. Howard Dean instead?

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