We Must Speak Out Louder Than Ever For A State Single Payer Option

[Demeter]

Now that a filibuster in the Senate is no longer an issue, for better
or worse, some kind of health care bill is likely to pass and be
signed into law. And the worse is awful downright bad, threatening to
force us to become customers of corporate medical insurance, with no
meaningful alternative. And that is why the fight to protect the
right of states to deploy their own single payer systems is more
critical than ever.

Marcy Winograd is standing strong on this issue and has her own
action page you can submit to make your voice heard on this right
now.

State Single Payer Action:
http://winograd4congress.com/petitions/pnum1018.php

And Marcy has a new TV ad you can see on this page, that she is
working to get on the air right now.

State Single Payer Video:
http://winograd4congress.com/petitions/contributions.php

Here is what Marcy Winograd herself has to say on the issue.

"Regardless of what Congress passes in the way of health insurance
reform, states should have the right to to set up a publicly-funded
privately-delivered health care system, without interference from
health insurance companies that do not provide any health care.

Unfortunately Congress has yet to include the Kucinich amendment,
which PASSED in its own committee by an overwhelming 27-12 margin,
and which protects states' rights to enact single-payer, into the
health insurance reform bill.

This is wrong.

There is also a similar amendment being sponsored by Senator Sanders
as well. We must have an amendment in the final bill that gives
states the freedom to choose single-payer, the most efficient and
economical health care plan of all."

[Syntheto]

1. Paid for by Marcy Winograd, eh?

[Cleita]

2. K&R

[pscot]

3. Unfortunately, I think that train

has already pulled out. That blood on the rails is all that's left of the liberal health reform agenda.

[Doctor_J]

5. Yes, we were once again abused.

I think the Dems are going to be trounced in next November's elections, and they can blame the triangulation/appeasement.

[truedelphi]

7. How is it appeasement if it is what you signed on to do?

Obama made a deal, and soon after that he was all "Hank is doing a good job there at the Fed."(Meaning Paulson.) Then he picked Rahm as his chief of staff, and then Geihtner and Bernanke. He even has Kissinger along for the ride (Forget Henry's job title, but he is part of this Amdinistration.)

Granted the Obama version of Oligarchy is much kinder and gentler that Nazi Geo W's version. But it is not democracy and has nothing to do with reforms needed to keep the middle incomed alive.

I will never convince myself that Obama took his 62% voter mandate, and the 65
to 76 % support of most in this nation who wanted Medicare for All and insted he carved up that amount of Polticial Power until we ended up with this piece of crap legislation becaus eof some inner need to be bipartrisan. Rather, he knew all along he wanted to keep his Corporate Masters happy.

[pscot]

8. I take it that you are sceptical

about the 17 dimensional chess theory that the kremlinologists around here claim to detect.

[truedelphi]

9. Well the Trilateral People and the Bildergbergs need to keep

About 17 chess steps in the future in order to keep us in line.

Kissinger was ecstatic over the Obama win. Said so on the Television.

I don't know why it is so important for people here to keep themselves in a state of delusion. I think for some people, the Presidency is a sort of royalty and they are pleased that now we Democrats have one of our own in power. But I care more about the ability of people to be part of the middle class and to have jobs and homes than some need to worship a leader.

[avalonofmists]

6. yes, it has -for now.

[bvar22]

4. Obama himself was responsible ...

...for pulling the Kucinich Amendment from the House Bill.

"Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, introduced in the committee an amendment that would effectively allow states to improve on our healthcare system if they choose to, allow them to create state-level single-payer healthcare. There are bills to do this in several state legislatures already. Such a bill has passed and been vetoed in California twice, where a change in governor is imminent.

President Obama told the committee chairman, George Miller, to oppose Kucinich's amendment, and he did so, leading off the voting with a resounding "No." But the Democrats voted 14 to 14 with one member passing and two failing to vote. And the Republicans voted 13 to 5 with one member failing to vote."

The amendment to allow states to start their own Single Payer Systems survived the committee vote despite President Obama's request to kill it, and was in the version of the bill that was given to Pelosi.

Behind closed doors, the amendment disappeared at the request of "the administration".

[StarfarerBill]

10. Done and done.