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Medicare-for-all

I totalled votes from the top 30 single-payer related questions out of the 1,197asked  on the "Open for Questions" web site.   The results:  Out of 44,719 votes, 41,517 or 92.8% favored single-payer health care, with most recongizing that such a system will save money, not cost more!  Considering this input, together with reliable surveys that show over 60% of Americans as well as physicians support a single-payer system, will the Obama Administration put Medicare-for-all back on the table?

Health care reform and the economy are inseparable issues; let's implement  a single payer system to demonstrate how we can do more with less and thus point the way toward economic recovery. Yes, we can.
3 Comments  »  Posted by bobcb to Health Care on 1/12/2009 12:23 PM

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elise
1/12/2009 2:38 PM
There is one problem( maybe more than one) with Medicare for all. Do you know how many doctors refuse medicare patients because of reimbersment issues. I would be very much in favor of this butas long as doctors are in the business of health care it does not make sense or profit to see medicare patients.
Now if medicare was the major game in town, perhaps doctor's would re-think not seeing medicare patients.
 
bobcb
1/12/2009 2:39 PM
The last sentence was cut off by the program.  It should continue...... "and thus point the way toward economic recovery."

This site should have a word cutoff indicator (as did the previous open for questions site) so writers can edit their input rather than have the system do so in an inappropriate place. 

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The Progressive Logic Guy
1/13/2009 1:56 PM

IS CHANGE.GOV A DECEPTION?

Why has Obama been ignoring the demand of his supporters for a single payer health care system?  Does he have political debts to the insurance companies, HMOs, and pharmaceutical corporations? Government officials don’t worry about “affordable” health care, they get it for free.  We should take health insurance off the backs of employers and have a generalized Medicare system for all citizens and resident aliens.  Are we who participate in this exercise being had?

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