Have you noticed? The same folks that are fomenting the noise against a single payer health insurance had no problem with taxpayer funded Federal Flood Insurance.
The following links and commentary were sent to me by an acquaintance. They are presented here with the hope they can help us better understand this vital issue. A clearer understanding will enable you to inform our elected representatives of your informed views.
How does the U.S. health systems compare? Visit BBC News for a comparison of the U.S.A. with three other nations.
For evidence of the manipulation of the health care debate, see, mcclatchydc.com . A prime example of such manipulation are the lies about euthanasia or eugenics being a part health care reform.
For a good view of what is actually in the House health care reform bill, see; wonkroom.thinkprogress.org and thehill.com
As to fact checking the numerous lies with which you are being assaulted, see . Check out their “Pants on Fire” health care entries. Also see, washingtonpost.com and factcheck.org
To get a good picture of just how tenuous your health care insurance may turn out to be, if and when you actually need it, see and learn about the insurance practice of rescission. You could well end up on the wrong end of that 50% chance of rescission.
A good discussion of some of the dumbest arguments against health care reform can be found at prospect.org.
For a good take on a Doctor’s view, see for discussion on the Physicians For A National Health Care Program.
For information, instead of propaganda, on the health care systems of other countries like Canada and the UK, see the following. Note that, unlike the Canadians and the English, who are second and third in satisfaction, we are dead last. So much for the “best health care system in the world” and all that demonizing of the other systems! Be sure to read the comments section in the second item below.
To get a view of what the proposed health care reform will do for us and for small business, see:
If you want a good take on the “Me First and To … With Everyone Else” crowd, i.e., those who do not care that 47% of their fellow citizens are uninsured, see inthesetimes.com
Finally, for an eye opener about end-of-life care.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates the costs the House proposal at $900 billion over ten years or $90 billion per year while insuring 96% of Americans. Compare that to the $1000 billion we spend each year on the military industrial complex, which is 11 times the cost per year of insuring the health of our citizens. We seem to be able to pay what ever it takes to destroy things and kill people, as long as we are fed nonsense about its need for our defense, but we are told we just cannot afford to provide health care for all of our citizens. Utter nonsense!
We actually spend double per capita what other advanced nations do on their health care and they receive better care with documented better results. Why is that? Well, you just might consider the fact that of the $2.4 trillion we spend each year, one out of every three of those dollars goes into the pockets of the insurance companies for their overhead which includes such things as advertising, lobbying, administration and those obscene CEO and other compensations ( see sickforprofit.com), as well as paying the organizers of those mobs at today’s town hall meetings.
That is $800 billion per year and close to 9 times what it is expected to cost us to insure 96% of our citizens. If we really had the political will to demand a government MEDICARE, single payer, not for profit, medical system, that $800 billion per year would be reduced to $72 billion, making $728 billion per year available to pay for the changed and better system. Do you now see why the insurance industry is spending $1.5 million per day to defeat reform? Are we going to be fools again?
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