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Today's single payer post: Health Care for America Now!
Submitted by DCblogger on Tue, 2008-07-08 18:14.
Like everyone else, I am just now learning about Health Care for America Now!. Certainly they have an impressive coalition. However, no where on the site is any reference to HR 676, so I have mixed feelings about this. I have asked them about HR 676. I will let you know what, if any, answer I receive. Bookmark/Search this post with: »
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Didn't mean to step on your topic, DCblogger
- I lost my temper and got carried away and posted without waiting to see what developed.
Is there some way to delete my post to keep the commentary in one place?
No - keep your post
I missed the part about MoveOn.
Elizabeth Edwards
Is this new group, Healthcare for America Now, the one that Elizabeth Edwards is fronting for? And, if so, why is she with a group that doesn’t support single-payer?
"group was not taking a specific stand — just yet"
????
— http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/…
weird.
Because Her Husband Wants to Be VP?
At least that’s John Edwards’ most recent position according to Salon.
Look at all the money
in that NYT article! $1.5 million for advertising in the next 2-3 weeks, $25 million for advertising over the next five months, and “millions more on a grassroots effort”. (Is that a sad commentary on the degraded meaning of “grassroots”?) A $10 million grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies (who’s that?); each steering committee member group gave at least $500,000.
There’s some good rhetoric there: the health insurance industry won’t have the battlefield to themselves suggests a willingness to fight. But the ominous part is this: over the last hundred years there’ve been repeated attempts to create true universal health care, and they’ve all been derailed by a combination of fearmongering and buying off segments of the population with health insurance they can afford for the medium term.
Why is all that money being put up? Do these players really want to provide health care for everyone, or do they want to tweak the status quo just enough to prevent a real solution?