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treestar

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Sat Sep-12-09 04:46 PM
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What about State Single Payer acts

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20090912/OPINION07/909120303/1004/OPINION/President+misled+Americans+on+health+care+reform

http://www.deinformedvoters.org/

this was in the local paper today and it appears this guy is advocating it.

In some states, it would be easier to get through that at the federal level. Then if it works well in those states .....

This sounds like something worth trying for.

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Ruby the Liberal

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Sat Sep-12-09 04:56 PM
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1. Dennis Kuinich has proposed an amendment to allow them to do this.

I think it is to amend HR3200, but don't hold me to that.

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Greyhound

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Sat Sep-12-09 04:56 PM
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2. The problem with state systems is that, except for "Kollyforneeya", Texas, New York, maybe Illinois,

they are too small to compete with or fight the insurance industry. Even the biggest state has been controlled through the insurance industry simply outspending them.

Now, there are a number of ways that states or groups of states can cause problems for the "masters of the universe", but they carry a very high price tag for any who dare.

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Sat Sep-12-09 05:13 PM
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4. Good point

It would be great if they could get it through in California or New York. Of course the morans would just say those were socialist states and say the same things they do about Canada. But if most people were happy with it, that could put a break in the wall.

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enlightenment

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Sat Sep-12-09 04:57 PM
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3. I'm not sure, but I think the problem might be

economies of scale at a state level.

That said, I'd love to see single payer and agree with the author of the editorial.
Especially liked this part . . . :evilgrin:

The co-op, public option and trigger to public option are all "Let's Pretend as We Tinker and Proclaim" proposals that will do nothing to provide universal health care coverage or reduce our burgeoning health care costs.
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Our president's pants should have caught fire when he proclaimed, "If you come to me with a set of serious proposals, I will be there to listen. My door is always open."

Not so by any stretch. Poll after poll show that approximately 70 percent of citizens want a single-payer reform system.

All of the other 29 developed nations cover all of their citizens with a single-payer or modified single-payer system at approximately one-half the funds we spend. The president's various committees not only excluded single-payer spokespersons but arrested single-payer advocate physicians and nurses trying to be heard before the key Senate Committee.

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