Unless every citizen or resident is covered at least by health insurance, the gap between the sick and the Health, and so that between the poor and the rich, increase in these economic recession. In Western Europe, Nordic, or Japan where health insurance is mainly national, services cover every resident and cost-effective.

In Japan, for example, under 8 % of GDP is enough to distribute services depending on the clients’ need. Do you know how many % of GDP we spend, and for the limited number of patients and clients in the U.S.?

Any types of insurance coverage for citizens and residents is OK if they serve for all!

It’s easy to just chalk up the resistance to being bought and payed for but I do not think that is the whole reason.

There is still a lot of resistance among Democrats as well as republicans from various states to anything that looks like Washington intrusion on their turf. The States rights thing is still very strong in a number areas.

Also making a case that is strong on a state level might be easier. A selling point as it were.

Just a thought.

The Wiener Amendment would only garner about 1/2 of the House Dem vote because all the small state reps would have voted it down, claiming it would hurt their rural constituents.

T.R Reid has said and Dennis Kuninich has also said that the only way to get Single Payer Nationwide is to show that it could be done -

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California for the 3rd time will bring a Single Payer Law to The Governator’s deck, he’s vetoed it twice before. But with 2010 being a election year, he might sign it to help moderate Meg Whitman in her race for the GOP seat.

If not we can get Jerry Brown to make it one of his campaign promises and delay voting it in, once he’s in office.

This toatlly stumps me. Where do we go from here? What do we do when the governing body actions are so out of sinc with “We, the People”? Haven’t we given a mandate that is clear enough?

Lately, I’m feeling more and more disenchanted with our Capitalistic form of government. I think a Democracy is what I want, but it doesn’ seem to be what we’ve got.

wdwgfh? Any ideas? lsr

Single payor would get rid of the leaches on society, namely big health care insurance and big pharma. It could deliver care to vertually all residents of the USA. Our physicans would not only be helped through medical school but could make a decent livelihood as primary care practice.
I believe that our health care would be improved substantially. The addition of Dental Care would also improve the general health of our population

Paul Savoie 72 years old with adequate health car but concerned about my fellows.

By the way, I was hoping you’d have an action here for support of this ….