tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post3074813717340390538..comments2009-07-10T22:34:47.408-04:00Hank Kalethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564264315812266459noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-83744458432759642242009-07-10T22:34:47.408-04:002009-07-10T22:34:47.408-04:00It is just insane, it is just criminal that we have been having this same &quot;debate&quot; about health care in this country for more than 60 years while all, ALL the other industrialized democracies have universal health care of one variety or another. However, the medical industrial complex, the AMA, the insurance companies, the drug companies, the CEOs and Wall Street have a vested interest in denying us single payer or universal health care.<br />We do have universal health care for folks 65 and older (Medicare), Medicaid, S-CHIP and the VA. Let&#39;s at the least have Medicare for all. Will it ever happen? <br />The medical industrial complex is spending more than a million dollars a day lobbying Congress to make sure that we don&#39;t even have the public option which is already a big compromise but better than nothing.<br />Face it folks, the obscene salaries of insurance CEOs is much more important than the health and welfare of MILLIONS of ordinary Americans. It will take massive peaceful marches of millions of Americans on state capitals or on DC to wake up out gutless bought off legislators. Of course the media will not cover it since they have been bought off by the same medical industrial complex as our legislators.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-8389515665265870832009-07-10T21:50:56.985-04:002009-07-10T21:50:56.985-04:00Plus there is a lot of hospital cost being borne indirectly by everyone b/c hospitals have to provide care to any one who shows up at the emergency room. Hospitals are reimbursed thru Medicaid for that but for just a few cents on the dollar. (DSH). That money would go alot further for the same people if they could get timely appropriate care from general practice mds.<br /><br />Also single payor would mean that money spent on claims and marketing could also be spent on medical care. <br /><br />It really is just a collective issue with &quot;reds&quot; that keeps it from happening.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com