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[T]his legislative battle is not yet over . Our focus can now turn to two remaining efforts for single-payer healthcare in this Congress. Sen. Bernie Sanders will introduce S 703 in coming weeks, and we understand that he is considering editing it to be more like HR 676. We will have the opportunity again to see the first ever vote on single-payer healthcare in this Congress. In addition, Rep. Kucinich’s amendment to allow states to more easily implement a single-payer system may be reinserted into the bill during the conference committee between the House and Senate.
All of these efforts are crucial to building the movement for the only solution to our health care crisis--single-payer national healthcare.
If this Congress passes inadequate legislation, there will no doubt be emboldened state movements in the coming years. We welcome them. But let us not forget the movement to push our federal legislators to meet the demands of the people, not roll that responsibility onto the states. The Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care remains committed to a national, single-payer solution to the health care crisis. Comprehensive, quality health care is a right that should be extended to every U.S. resident.
At this important time, let us not forget how far we have come. Either now or later, a single-payer national health care system must come to the table. We’ll keep building the movement to make that happen.
For health care justice,
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Interestingly, TX and PA both went for She Who Must Not Be Named in 2008. One wonders if a National Health Care Party could start up there.
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Texas would be a good fit for single-payer health care
because it's such a big state; like California and New York, it could most easily support a self-contained single-payer system.
And as a Texan, I can say with some pride that I think citizens would go for it if they understood it. Texans may be socially conservative, but economically I think they're just as prone to thoughts of liberalism and populism as anyone.
And of course Pennsylvania is on the threshold of creating single-payer health care in their own state, and we must wish them luck and show them support.
Nothing is true; everything is permitted.
Lambert, right now we're fighting off the secessionist nutjobs
and trying to figure out what the hell went wrong at Fort Hood yesterday.
But some of our citizens out in West Texas decided Raymond Merril Jessop, a "leader" of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints' Yearning For Zion "community," couldn't very well have a 4-year-old daughter by a "wife" just turned 21 if he hadn't raped her before she reached the age of consent. So they found the sucker guilty today.
Priorities, man.
We have Medicaid, S-CHIP and the VA here. Something like 80% of eligible people don't get the benefits, but the programs, at least, still exist here.
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18
I've been wondering about Medicaid actually.
It's administered by the states, right? They decide its parameters, its limitations, who gets covered by it?
One idea I've been having that could be used as a stopgap until real single-payer legislations is enacted, is to allow lower-income families to buy into Medicaid at a reasonable rate.
Is that legal? Can you do that?
Nothing is true; everything is permitted.
medicaid
it's a weird hybrid of state and federal.
the waiver program was introduced to allow states to experiment with ways to deliver health care, and has basically been a way to start privatizing medicaid, with ~60% of medicaid recipients now in privatized [managed care] plans.
probably there's some hitch in there that would ultimately prevent states from allowing people to buy directly into traditional medicaid [as opposed to the privatized versions], but it's an idea i'd like to see pursued.
time to start showing our support for bernie sanders
particularly if he's considering making s703 more like hr676. his original bill leaves too much to the states [looks too much like medicaid, not enough like medicare].
bingo. it's apparent that obama's preference is for individual responsibility first, states to take up the responsibility failing that, and tackling problems using the power of the federal govt only as a last resort. unless of course we're talking about unnatural persons; they get help.