HEALTH CARE WANTED: DEAD
OR ALIVE
The masquerade is over! The "public option" is ...
dead.
Congressman Dennis Kucinich, 081809
Health care reform is now a private option: WHICH FOR PROFIT
INSURANCE COMPANY DO YOU WANT? You have to choose. And you
have to pay. If you have a low income, under HR3200
government will subsidize the private insurance companies and
you will still have to pay premiums, co-pays and deductibles.
The Administration plan requires that everyone must have health
insurance, so it is delivering tens of millions of new
"customers" to the insurance companies. Health care? Not
really. Insurance care! Absolutely. Cost controls? No chance.
You will next hear talk about "co-ops." The truth is that
insurance company campaign contributions have co-opted the
public interest.
I need your help to spread
the word and rally the nation around true health care reform
which covers everyone and maintains fiscal integrity without
breaking our nation's bank!
Your contribution will empower our efforts to continue to fight
for the single-payer, not-for-profit health care bill, HR676
"Medicare for All," which I co-authored with Rep. John Conyers.
The bill now has 85 sponsors in the House.
The hotly-debated HR3200, the so-called "health care reform"
bill, is nothing less than corporate welfare in the guise of
social welfare and reform. It is a convoluted mess. The real
debate which we should be having is not occurring.
Removing the "public option" from a public bill paid for by
public money is not in the public interest. What is left is
a "private option" paid for with public money. Why should public
money be spent on a private option which does not guarantee 100%
coverage nor have any cost controls? A true public option would
provide 30% savings immediately which would then cover the 1/3rd
of the population who presently have no health care.
Unfortunately, under HR3200, the Government is choosing winners
and losers in the private sector; proposing to spend public
funds on subsidizing insurance companies who make money not
providing health care. This process will insure only the
expansion of profits. Gone is the debate over cost.
As a result of current negotiations, the Medicare Part D rip-off
will continue for another decade, further fleecing senior
citizens. Drug importation has been dropped, so no inexpensive
drugs can be accessed from other nations.
Instead we are told the pharmaceutical companies will accept a
2% cut in the growth rate of their profits - they call this cost
control!
If the matter were not so serious, it would be farcical: The
executive branch pretends that the proposed health care reforms
are something they are not. The legislation is being attacked
for something it is not. Congressional leadership and the White
House defend the legislation, pretending it actually is the very
proposal that is being attacked. But it is not.
A commonsense government health care reform policy would insure
that every single American has full access to health care by
expanding Medicare to cover everyone under a Single Payer
System. We are already paying for a universal standard of care,
it is just we are not getting it.
I need your help to spread the word and rally the nation around
true health care reform which covers everyone and maintains
fiscal integrity without subsidizing insurance and
pharmaceutical companies and breaking our nation's bank!
My voice in Congress will continue to challenge the special
interests who do not want "single-payer" to succeed. I need you
to join me in combating the special and corporate interests who
spend millions to try to win this Congressional seat. With your
help WE will win again. With your help I will continue to
represent your concerns, be YOUR VOICE in the United States
Congress, and be the voice for health care for all Americans!
Please contribute $25, $50,
$100 in support of my campaign. Please contribute now.
With your help, we can accomplish ANYTHING in America.
Persistence, dedication, truth and courage will lead the way and
win out in the end.
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