The People's Email Network Last 25 Messages Transmitted Log Go Back Mr. President, We The People Have A Better Health Care Approach . . . Single Payer ********** [085925:030710] J.N., Santa Fe, NM Be a leader: Speak out for Public Option! Now work for it!! ********** [074713:030510] m.m., Encino, CA A single payer option would give Americans more choice, reduce cost and inefficient non-health-related expenses in the system. ********** [131107:030310] B.B., Woodbridge, VA Q: When did health insurance reform have the most public support? A: Early in the process when it looked like there would be a substantial reform that would make sure that all Americans have the comprehensive kind of health care that citizens of the US should have. I support Medicare for all. I do not support an individual mandate without a strong public option. ********** [171600:030110] M.G., Alexandria, VA President Obama, We have a better idea for healthcare reform. It is the idea you and the Democratic Congressional Leadership took off the table. That idea is Single Payer. Single Payer is the most effective and efficient way to achieve universal health care. ********** [122634:022610] C.F., Saint Charles, MO Health CARE not Health INSURANCE. Without a Public Option Health Care Reform will only benefit the Insurance Industry. ********** [051417:022410] J.L., Mount Pleasant, MI The principal reason for high health care costs in the USA is that health insurance companies are allowed to make a profit. We are the ONLY nation, with a health care system, that allows this. A single payer alternative is a must to level the playing field. ********** [183646:022210] U.S., Portland, OR Health care is not a luxury - it is not something we can choose to do without as we could with a new car or large-screen TV. It should not depend on the wisdom or luck of our employers, the profit-making strategies of an insurance company, or the level of our income. When we are sick, we must have health care - it's as simple as that. ********** [161830:022210] a.h., Wells, VT if so many people disliked their insurance in france, england, canada, and the myriad other countries with single payer, i think we would know about it. they don't dislike it. that's why we haven't heard that. insurance is a birthright. do the right thing, mr. president. ********** [155222:022210] M.L., Berkeley, CA With roughly 300 million people presently living in the U.S., and each of us paying an additional $50. a year for health care, we would amass an annual pool of $1.5 trillion -- which would well provide health-care for all of us. Making less than $25,000. a year, I would gladly pay $100. a year ($2. a week) to cover for someone (children, elders) who can't pay. I would sooner give my life-savings to charity before being forced to hand it over to insurance companies. ********** [233916:022110] J.d., Canoga Park, CA We have a system in place that works and works efficently and effectively. All we need to do is expand it to include everyone from birth on. It is called Medicare. Why mess around with something? If it works, don't fix it. Just use it! ********** [054754:022110] M.B., Gloucester, MA A good faith effort to consider all options to reduce the cost of health care and improve the quality of health care in America requires that Medicare For All be considered seriously. A single payer option would give Americans more choice, reduce cost and inefficient non-health-related expenses in the system. Please do not capitulate to the corporate interests over the real needs and health of the people. Not only our health but the economic security of our nation is at risk. ********** [134930:021910] K.S., New Rochelle, NY It is clear to me that the only way to achieve the goals that Pres. Obama sets is by the implementation of a single-payer system. To not do so is to keep our heads in the sand and to watch more people lose their insurance and die. This is happening to people I know. We must inact a Single-Payer plan. ********** [102251:021910] L.K., Boulder, CO SINGLE PAYER MEDICARE FOR ALL Universal coverage. Sensible. Practical. Economical. Even reduces the deficit and pays for itself. DO-able. GREED CANNOT SEE ANY OF THIS! Corporate greed is a game unto itself. Profits and bonuses from sickness? All of that is immoral. Actually, being without health insurance myself for the last two decades is not too terrible. I use life-long practices of lifestyle, diet, herbs, exercise to care for myself and my family. True, I have been fortunate not to have been in an accident or suffered a catastrophic illness. A person could do worse than not have health care coverage. Think about it: Pulling the plug on Big Pharma and Big Sick Insurance might not take long if the numbers were great. Surely enough satisfaction could follow. ********** [201542:021810] c.p., Santa Rosa, CA I respectfully urge you to please support the single payer option. We will be in dire straits if nothing is done! ********** [215414:021710] R.K., Arvada, CO There is no major religion that does not stress helping those who are less fortunate, and the provision of universal medical coverage to all Americans would realize this ideal. Concerns that people would loose medical choices to the government are pure baloney, as we citizens have more say in governmental policies than we do in insurance company policies. Just hope and pray - even if you are not religious - that you or yours do not suffer a catastrophic illness or injury, for unless you are super-wealthy, chances are you may receive little satisfaction - and if any - maybe too late. In most civilized nations, you would be well-cared for, for their leaders are more concerned in providing medical care to their citizens than in providing huge profits for the corporations. Single-payer, government medical care - with bureaucratic wastefulness a given - will still cost American citizens less, and provide better service ( for the general welfare) than our present "system." Even if it costs more, however, I would be willing to pay my share of additional taxes. ********** [151722:021710] J.C., San Jose, CA Please listen to the people and give us single payer health care. ********** [093649:021710] l.h., Colfax, WA i treat people for mental health disorders...i now spend several hours a week fighting insurance companies to pay for my patients medications..their formulary drugs dont work for everyone..what is the advantage in developing improved treatments if i cant prescribe them...respectfully, dr lee hendrickson, arnp ********** [081219:021710] K.H., Colorado Springs, CO It's time to listen to the people, not the lobbyists for the medical-industrial complex, about what we need to ensure that every American has affordable access to the medical care. Get it right - Medicare for all. Pay attention - you can make this work if you want to. ********** [080658:021610] D.L., Fort Collins, CO Doctors know the answer, there is a health care plan which works. It is Medicare for all. Please make single payer the option for the american people. Dr Deanne L.Windsor Family Clinic ********** [185151:021510] B.E., Brooklyn, NY It's time to do what's right for Americans. Pass single payer health care now. ********** [155548:021510] B.S., Woodville, AL I am all for a free market, but where do we draw the line? We already have government-run roads, police, utilities (TVA), mail delivery, disaster assistance, war-making, and lately, business insurance (bail-outs: AIG, banks, automobiles, airlines). Are these (admittedly worthy, in some cases) endeavors worth less than health care? I don't think they are. I say if we need to choose what industries the government should run, it would be much better to fund health care than, say, pre-emptive, aggressive invasions of foreign countries or business bail-outs. If a business fails, people lose their jobs, which is a pity. If I get sick or injured, I could die for lack of access to health care. I want single payer, and so do a majority of Americans! Don't knuckle under to the insurance companies. Support the folks who elected you. ********** [134329:021510] W.E., Sussex, WI It's time to get on with true, lasting Healthcare reform - SINGLE PAYER!!! ********** [114109:021510] N.B., Berkeley Heights, NJ The recent failure of the health reform bills which had been cobbled together by Congress is a blessing, in that we have a new opportunity to achieve successful, affordable health reform, vie the solution which was declared "off the table" by our legislative leaders. The humble "crumb" which was discarded out of hand should be the new centerpiece: Medicare-for-All. otherwise known as a single-payer system, funded by the government but contracted to private as well as public providers, with some new incentives to avoid unnecessary, potentially harmful treatments. All Americans would be covered automatically, without the time-consuming, though futile need to fight the predatory financial practices of for-profit private insurance companies. These companies (as well as the pharmaceutical and other for-profit healthcare corporations) offer us no bargains--in fact, they regularly seek subsidies and special protections from the government (us, the taxpayers)--but they receive preferential treatment by our elected leaders in Congress only via their multimillion dollar political contributions. This is a disgrace and a betrayal of the American people. It is time our taxes covered our health needs and were not siphoned off to the cleverest corporate bidder. ********** [083721:021510] R.H., Oklahoma City, OK We progressives are against the current, watered-down health care legislation because of the truth about what's NOT in it, namely a single-payer system or at least a robust public option, to keep insurance companies honest. Apparently Senators Coburn and Inhofe, along with Congresswoman Fallin, are against it because of the lies about what IS in it. There are no 'government death panels' as Governor Palin or Senator Grassley (R-IA) allege. These people know full well that anything even REMOTELY resembling a 'death panel' is already being practiced by the insurance industry through the practice of recision (finding a pre-existing condition after the fact, whether or not it's related to the claim). No wonder the GOP is the party of NO! ********** [035919:021510] B.S., Center Barnstead, NH Truly spiritual, caring people should want and demand wellness and healthcare for all! WE THE PEOPLE before corporate profits! ********** Go Back