Check out this awesome clip: it's powerful, and it also made me laugh (m.a.o.!)... We need all the humor we can get in this deadly-serious debate!
...many thanks to Nancy for bulletin-ing it.
This is the mySpace website for
HealthCare-NOW!
in Wisconsin.
Healthcare-NOW is a national campaign for a quality guaranteed non-profit single payer healthcare system in the United States.
HEALTHCARE-NOW! invites all health care activists and organizers to work together on new strategies to create support for single payer, guaranteed national healthcare for all, H.R. 676.
When: Thursday, June 5th 5:30 - 8:30pm (light dinner provided)
What: Healthcare-NOW is a single-issue campaign supporting the movement for a single payer, national, guaranteed health care plan in the United States. Healthcare-NOW’s mission is to eliminate health care injustice in the United States by implementing Bill HR 676 (written by Representative John Conyers), Expanded and Improved Medicare for All.
thanks for the 'add', i actually heard about the your work through a co-worker/friend i just moved to midwest last year, but i'm all about "healthcare" for everyone... in gratitude for all of your hardwork and efforts towards change - Thank You! ~Sarcasmo
I support a single payer universal health plan (UHP) that will provide comprehensive health coverage in the United States. By single payer I mean a federal national insurer based on a mutual insurance model where every participant is a stakeholder. Universal means everyone currently resident in the United States is covered. Comprehensive because it includes medical, dental, hospitalization, vision, and mental health along with prescription drug coverage and long term health care.
How it would work?
The UHP would pay doctors, clinics, and hospitals directly (except for nominal co-payments). UHP would have the ability to determine usual and customary charges, negotiate terms and rates, and invest excess revenues just as a commercial insurance company would. At no time should UHP hire doctors to provide medical services, take over clinics or assume ownership or management of any hospitals or run nursing homes. UHP would also assume the responsibilities currently held by Medicare and Medicaid and we would abolish those two programs permanently.
How do we pay for it?
The major funding source would be a tax on every U.S. business based on their total monthly payroll. I would hope somewhere in the range of 10 to 12% of their payroll expense, although from what I've heard and read recently it might be necessary to be as high as 15%. I suggest that we include state and local governments in this program. A smaller and secondary revenue stream would be the Medicare tax that employees already pay. At no time should UHP funds be commingled or be accessed by any other branch or department of the federal government.
Thank you sooo very much for the add! I stand united with all of you and hope together we can bring about real change...remember it starts with us! Pleased to "meet" you! :) And I look forward to learning and raising awareness with you! :) peace and healing, jess
