Friday, August 14, 2009
Get the facts about Health Care - Health Reform Fact Check
"There are quite a few "viral emails" floating around, making outlandish claims about health insurance reform and pretending to be careful analyses of the bills moving through Congress. Drafted to appear as if they are written by concerned citizens, more often the information comes from organizations with a strident agenda to protect the status quo. White House Health Reform Director Nancy-Ann DeParle takes on one of the most prevalent emails directly." Get the facts at Whitehouse.gov/realitycheck
Friday, June 26, 2009
Who and How Much - Health Care Industry Cash Influencing your Representative?
Go to OpenSecrets.org Click here to see: "...Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a member of the Senate Health Committee, is the top recipient of pharmaceutical cash, or that Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), has collected more money from health insureres than all other current members of Congress."
Thanks to the Center for Responsive Politics
Thanks to the Center for Responsive Politics
Monday, June 22, 2009
"Premiums" for Profits -- or "Taxes" for National Health Care. Different words, different outcomes but the same money.
It took Congress only weeks to ok an invasion of Iraq. It took Congress only days to enact a financial bailout of the big financial firms. So, what’s taking so long with our National Health Care Program?
“Higher taxes” chanted the few on the margins of last month's march for health care (The Seattle PI has pics). Well, we all know that we can pay our premiums for the Health Insurance Industry’s bureaucracy, profits, and administration costs -- or, we can pay our premiums into a single payer pool where more of every dollar is reclaimed for actual health care.
Right now, 31% of every health care dollar goes to private, for profit, insurers’ admin costs. But, paying into the single payer pool, or National Health Program, would put each of these dollars to work, covering everyone and providing comprehensive care. Other industrialized countries provide comprehensive coverage to their citizens – for better care at much less cost.
Last month thousands of Washington State people turned out to march for Health Care. The loudest chants were for single-payer health care, championed by, among others, Physicians for a National Health Program (an organization of 16,000 physicians, medical students and health care professionals). Many in congress seem to think that they know better. So, feeling like Congress isn’t getting it, Washington citizens gathered, we marched, and we chanted for real change.
Many of us worked to get democrats into Congress. Because, we were promised real change for health care. Where is that change? We seem to be seeing the reality of campaign finance influence; contributions to congress from insurance and pharmaceutical companies. The facts support a National Health program: Arguments to the contrary are arguments for a sick system and for the self-interest of the for-profit insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
Washington Public Campaigns has an upcoming public forum on Health Care reform: June 30, details are here: http://www.washclean.org/.
Learn more about real reform at Physicians for a National Health Program http://www.pnhp.org/facts/single_payer_resources.php
And here at Health Care for All
http://www.healthcareforallwa.org/.
Contact your Congress at Senate.gov and House.gov and ask them to support the citizen’s health with a Single-Payer National Health program.
From Capital Eye: Former Senate Leaders Share Health Care Vision, Lobbying History and Senators Opposed to "Public Option" Haul in Health Care PAC Dollars
“Higher taxes” chanted the few on the margins of last month's march for health care (The Seattle PI has pics). Well, we all know that we can pay our premiums for the Health Insurance Industry’s bureaucracy, profits, and administration costs -- or, we can pay our premiums into a single payer pool where more of every dollar is reclaimed for actual health care.
Right now, 31% of every health care dollar goes to private, for profit, insurers’ admin costs. But, paying into the single payer pool, or National Health Program, would put each of these dollars to work, covering everyone and providing comprehensive care. Other industrialized countries provide comprehensive coverage to their citizens – for better care at much less cost.
Last month thousands of Washington State people turned out to march for Health Care. The loudest chants were for single-payer health care, championed by, among others, Physicians for a National Health Program (an organization of 16,000 physicians, medical students and health care professionals). Many in congress seem to think that they know better. So, feeling like Congress isn’t getting it, Washington citizens gathered, we marched, and we chanted for real change.
Many of us worked to get democrats into Congress. Because, we were promised real change for health care. Where is that change? We seem to be seeing the reality of campaign finance influence; contributions to congress from insurance and pharmaceutical companies. The facts support a National Health program: Arguments to the contrary are arguments for a sick system and for the self-interest of the for-profit insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
Washington Public Campaigns has an upcoming public forum on Health Care reform: June 30, details are here: http://www.washclean.org/.
Learn more about real reform at Physicians for a National Health Program http://www.pnhp.org/facts/single_payer_resources.php
And here at Health Care for All
http://www.healthcareforallwa.org/.
Contact your Congress at Senate.gov and House.gov and ask them to support the citizen’s health with a Single-Payer National Health program.
From Capital Eye: Former Senate Leaders Share Health Care Vision, Lobbying History and Senators Opposed to "Public Option" Haul in Health Care PAC Dollars
Thursday, April 09, 2009
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