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WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders strongly criticized Sen. Hillary Clinton’s health care reform plan, calling it a capitulation to private HMO and insurance corporations and an affront to Americans who lack adequate access to health care
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“Senator Clinton’s $110-billion-per-year ‘mandatory coverage’ plan amounts to a gigantic subsidy for the HMO-insurance industry, while shifting the burden — and the blame for lack of coverage — onto people who desperately need health care,” said John Battista, MD, former Green candidate for state representative in Connecticut and co-author of his state’s single-payer legislation in 1999 (the Connecticut Health Care Security Act).
[By contrast] a Single-Payer national health plan, also called ‘Medicare For All,’ similar to the Canadian system … would guarantee every American health care regardless of age, income, employment, or prior medical condition; allow choice of health care provider; provide low-cost or no-cost treatment and prescriptions (including certain forms of alternative medicine); and cost low- and middle-income Americans far less than they now pay for private or employer-based coverage by eliminating insurance and HMO company overhead.
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| “America doesn’t need ‘mandatory’ coverage, America needs guaranteed health care,” said Linda Manning Myatt, Michigan Green and spokesperson for the National Women’s Caucus.
Ms. Clinton has been Congress’s top recipient of money from the insurance industry … |
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very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
Idetrorce
December 15, 2007 at 8:10 am
Yes it is simply ridiculous.
agronom
October 12, 2007 at 9:12 am
I heard a story abuot a guy from Philidelphia who is part of a group of people who instead of paying big health insurance companies decided to pool their money together and to use this pool as their health insurance. I liked this idea, and someday I’d like to start somethign like this somewhere, especially if the current trend in lack of health coverage continues.
There’s so many areas where I don’t know what to do about big bad corporations except to just stop using their services, because there is a sickness in a system where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Monte Says: “…there is a sickness in a system where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer” – thank you, DarthBen – not many Christian Americans can see this, for some reason. Perhaps we have simply drunk the wine of doctrinaire capitalism so long that it’s jaded our sense of justice. How radical would the Jubilee system seem to us, where everyone goes back to equal access to the means of wealth-production every 50 years!
darthben
October 11, 2007 at 9:59 pm