www.pnhp.org

There are a lot more than 2,000 who support single payer or at least heavily subsidized health insurance.

I'm sure most of physicians who accept a lot of Medicaid patients would be for it, as well as those who actually went into medicine for the right reasons.

The problem is that there are a lot of physicians who are afraid single payer would just mean a lot less money for them. A lot of physicians refuse to accept typically low Medicaid and Obamacare rates.

But even then, I bet a good percentage of physicians are for single payer -- or something close -- just for the humanitarian aspects.

The question is still, how do we get there the fastest?

Ponies! Sexists! (did I already say that one?!?) Anyone who is for SP is a misogynist, and probably a racist too, since Obama is against SP!

Thanks for the thread, kgnu_fan.

In National Health Care Debate

Remember 2009, The Democratic party has been trying to silence this group for decades


http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/february/president_obama_must.php



"This morning, President Obama announced he will create a $634 billion reserve fund over the next decade to provide a down payment for expanding health coverage. The announcement comes a week before a White House health care summit that marks the beginning of the first serious effort to reform health care since the Clinton task force in 1993.

The president wants this process to be open and transparent, with the goal of achieving universal coverage. However, groups representing physicians, nurses, and consumers who advocate for a single-payer system of national health insurance have thus far been excluded from the summit.

Under a single-payer system, doctors, hospitals and other health care providers are paid from a single fund administered by the government. The system would eliminate the wasteful spending and high administrative costs of private insurance, saving almost $400 billion annually. This savings is enough to provide every American with the same high-quality care, including those who currently have insurance but still cannot afford medications and treatment.

If health care is a key to fixing our national deficit and providing the economic stimulus that we need to recover from this recession, it is unacceptable to ignore the only system that will provide true universal coverage. If the only people who have input on health care reform are the lobbyists who represent the interests of insurance and drug companies, the final result will be a system that benefits the insurance and drug companies.

The Clinton task force on health reform made a similar mistake of excluding the voices of those who support a single-payer system, and the result was a complicated, inadequate reform proposal that catered to the interests of insurance companies and failed to garner public support. At a time when public support for single-payer is greater than ever - more than 60 percent in recent polls - we urge President Obama not to make the same mistake. He must include single-payer advocates in the health care summit next week."

... get those doctors, hospitals groups and pharma to accept nearly half of what they're getting paid now.

The private HCI only accounts for 10% of overall medical admin cost and that's conservative...

It'll be replaced with a 3% admin cost from medicare or some other plan from the government

So I get a total of 7% total out of pocket savings seeing that instead of paying a private HCI high premiums I'm paying the government high premiums because

There's NO ... NONE... NOTHING from the Sanders plan that shows those people supporting Sanders taking nearly half of what they get paid today to get the overall premiums down.

Yes, we care about policy