Single Payer, Medicare for All -- WE NEED IT NOW!

I just stumbled upon this Slate article from December 2012: Georgia's Hunger Games

Fewer than 4,000 adults in the southern state receive welfare, even as poverty is soaring. How Georgia declared war on its poorest citizens—leaving them to fight for themselves.

There are many articles, blogs and commentary about the war against the poor in this country (hell, what don't we have a war against?), and the concerted efforts to create MORE people living in poverty. This is nothing new; most of us see this and have for decades.

But reading the Slate piece this morning pissed me off beyond measure. Most of you probably share my anger and disgust; I'm preaching to the choir here. (And speaking of preaching, I'm not bashing religion or southerners; this article happens to be about Georgia but this particular brand of ignorance is alive and well throughout the US.)

I know quite a few "good Christians" in the South, but other areas as well, who are always quick to judge others without knowing anything about them. Anyone waiting in a "welfare line" is immediately thought of as a lazy freeloader. I'm not saying all Christians (or any religion) are hypocrites. It's just that the people I speak of lead off by identifying themselves that way -- as "good Christians" -- yet their actions toward others are the antithesis of Christ's teachings, as I understand them.

People who judge others so harshly and without merit, and turn away, have no idea how devastating and destructive their judgment of others as lazy, takers, freeloaders, welfare queens, etc., really is, and has been for decades.

A friend shared the story of how one of his classmates on Facebook was one such person as described above. A "bootstrap" person against any type of social service and loathed the very idea of Obamacare.

Sadly, this person recently developed a critical illness, and his family and friends are trying various fundraisers to raise $$ to help pay for medical treatment, cover living expenses in the interim, etc.

In a country of 312 million people, many of whom have no insurance (and thus no or minimal healthcare to prevent illness) or have insurance but still can't afford healthcare, HOW MANY INDIVIDUAL FUNDRAISERS CAN WE HANDLE? How much longer before these fundraisers just don't work because people have compassion fatigue and/or no money to spare at all?

WE ARE NOT A CIVILIZED NATION BY MODERN STANDARDS. We simply aren't.


We need a single-payer system. We must demand it. In order for that to happen, more need to be educated about it:


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