This Week: Hearings on the Single Payer Health Care Option and Family Leave Policies

By
Kittredge, Betsy Miller
 on June 8, 2009 5:34 PM | Comments (2)
On June 10, the Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee will hold a hearing examining the single payer health care option.

On June 11, the House Workforce Protections Subcommittee will hold a hearing to examine proposals for expanding workers’ access to paid family and sick leave. 

2 Comments

By Sheila Blackman on June 9, 2009 12:06 PM

Please continue to pursue a single-payer health care system with all possible vigor.

Private for profit companies have proven very well that allowing them to control health care is like putting sharks in a pool with goldfish. You know what happens- the American people are experiencing it now.

There are many models in the international community which work well. Surely the ingenuity of the American politician can follow an already existing plan and tweak it for our own use?

Get greed out of our health care system.

By Barbara Calder on June 9, 2009 12:13 PM

I am thankful the single payer option is being examined.Presently our CO home is for sale. It has been for 13 months. I am suffering from a rare genetic disease and unable to afford treatment in the USA.We are planning on relocating to Belgium once the house sells in order to recieve affordable health care. I had insurance when I began showing signs of the illness but we went close to bankruptcy due to the denial of health insurance claims. After working for 32 years, playing by the rules and leading a healthy lifestyle I refuse to loose it all for an illness so health insurance CEO's can bring home over 10 million a year in salaries and even more in stock options. Please take the greed out of illness.
Thank youI

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