Comments on: The Fight to Keep Single-Payer Healthcare Alive

By: Anthony J Jordan

Anthony J Jordan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:08:21 +0000

It’s time to draw that “line in the sand”: Single Payer / Public Option / Veto. We don’t need and can’t afford any more giveaways to the insurance companies and pharmaceuticals.

By: Jody

Jody — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:42:52 +0000

This just sounds wonderful. You forgot an important aspect. Your freedom. “Everyone is equal under the law.” Where do you live? Are you in reality at all? Just remember, freedom is not what you want to loose. I wonder if people even know what the word means. Don’t even want to start about our education system.

By: william

william — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:14:55 +0000

While single-payer would be the best, I do not know if the ignorance shown by so many can be overcome. Even a robust public-option could at least in theory help create true competition, though the propaganda war against either 676 or 3200 seems to be creating the wall that they backers of big insurance wanted.

History is written by the victors, and legislature is passed by those with the most lobbyists. Sad but true.

By: Angela

Angela — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:52:52 +0000

I’m glad to see the single payer option still in play. If the Republicans have made the Public Option sound so complicated that people can’t understand it, then they have boxed themselves into the corner of finding a VERY SIMPLE answer that people CAN understand, right? There isn’t anything simpler than the single payer option. I say it’s time to take this fight out of the hands of the illusion of bi-partisanship which has led to nothing but lies, fear-mongering, and yet even more 2000 election-style Republican strong-arm tactics and put it where it belongs – in the true interest of the people – a single payer system that covers everyone equally!

If everyone is equal under the law, then everyone should be equal under the eyes of the health care system. Our Constitution is such a miraculous document because it has been flexible enough to change with the changing times. The definition of what constitutes civilized society has changed since its passage. Remember that even education was once not considered a government-sponsored right in this country. Yet, it has been one of the building blocks that has made our country great. We are the last industrialized country to accept that health care is inextricably bound up in the ‘right to life’ as we know it at this point in our history. Now is the time to deliver on the recognition our Founding Father’s made to each citizen of those inalienable rights as they have been recognized through the changing centuries!