Aux keyboards, citoyens! Pelosi aide asks where are the faxes, calls, etc., to make the Speaker address single payer!


Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to contribute to a blizzard of faxes to our Dems who think single payer should not be on the table, to "Make Them Do It." Takes minutes (unless you're longwinded with your comment).

Gob, at CorrenteWire, has posted about an organization, 1payer.net, which will fax your messages to Baucus, Pelosi, the WH, etc.

It appears that Congressional leaders are being deliberately dismissive of single-payer to the point of ludicrous statements. It's like they have put their fingers in their ears and are yelling "I can't hear you, I can't hear you." Here they are in all their Congressional member glory:

Baucus a few days ago: "Everything BUT single payer is on the table. Single payer is off the table."

Pelosi: "In our caucus, over and over again, we hear single payer, single payer, single payer. Well, it's not going to be a single payer."

Pelosi's aide: "Where are the phone calls, e-mails and faxes in support of single-payer? Speaker Pelosi has been in favor of single-payer for a long time. Now make us do it."

OK. We are up to the challenge. He wants to see the faxes. Let's break their damn fax machines with the faxes.

You can send a fax right now to Pelosi, Baucus, the aide and the White House.

Send one now and send another in a few minutes. Give them enough faxes that they have to run get more paper (or electronic ink, as the case may be.) Then when they have received all of these, we will do it again. And again. And we will print them out and dump them on Pelosi's office desk.

So let them see what happens when they ask for faxes. Then maybe they will have to take their fingers out of their ears.

Thank You

Clark Newhall MD JD
Physician & Attorney
Law Office at
57 W. 200 South, Suite 101
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
http://www.cnewhall.com

We can't afford to not have single payer. Next best, we must have a real public plan: like Medicare, an Everybody In, Nobody Out plan. If Big Insurance wants to go up against a public plan, to keep sucking up "rents," well, let them try if Congress wants them around.

We cannot allow nibbling around the edges, with the "reform" being a mandatory purchase of crap insurance offered by Big Insurance. And never, ever let Big Insurance prevent the states from offering public plans...if we can't get a Federal public plan.

Feel free to follow up with phone calls and emails. They may not know they want to be made to do this, but, surely, they do...Just Do It.


jawbone2 April 26, 2009 - 10:41pm
( categories: Miscellany )

thanks for the link!

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bex April 27, 2009 - 9:32am

$2 Trillion in Savings Offered Over Decade, White House Says

Washington Post, By Michael A. Fletcher & Ceci Connolly, May 11

Volunteering to "do our part" to tackle runaway health costs, leading groups in the health-care industry have offered to squeeze $2 trillion in savings from projected increases over the next decade [Don't hurt yourselves], White House officials said yesterday.

The pledge comes amid a debate over how, or whether, to overhaul the nation's health-care system, and Obama administration officials predicted that it will significantly increase momentum for passing such changes this year.

The groups aim to achieve the proposed savings by using new efficiencies to trim the rise in health-care costs by 1.5 percent a year, the officials said. That would carry huge implications for the national economy and the federal budget, both of which are significantly affected by health-care expenses.

Representatives from half a dozen health industry trade groups are scheduled to make a formal offer today in a White House meeting with President Obama.

"I don't think there can be a more significant step to help struggling families and the federal budget," [Again with the lack of imagination?...] a senior administration official said in a conference call with reporters. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the offer remains tentative.


Is a certain industry shaking in their boots?

They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.

Raja May 11, 2009 - 7:57am

Briefing Room (The Hill), By Michael O'Brien, May 12

The Obama administration's plan announced yesterday to save trillions in healthcare costs is an "unconscionable rip-off of the American people," Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) argued Tuesday.

Kucinich slammed the administration's deal, brokered with insurers, labor, healthcare providers, and other parties to save $2 trillion over the next 10 years as another bailout for a major industry.

"This is an unconscionable rip-off of the American people. This is a bailout of the insurance industry," Kucinich, an advocate of a single-payer, government run system said Tuesday on National Public Radio.

"Just like we bailed out the banks, we're bailing out the insurance industries," he argued. "And so I emphatically disagree with the approach that the White House is taking. In the end, it's going to mean more taxpayer dollars going to the insurance industry."


Program Summary at NPR. (And other not-very-lucid commentary from Kucinich here).

They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.

Raja May 13, 2009 - 7:43am
Tina May 11, 2009 - 12:18pm

Corrente: Bollocks

Here is the full text of Obama's remarks yesterday on the health insurance companies vague proposal to promise to reduce their take by 1.5% a year for the next decade in exchange for no public option and as long as there's no enforcement mechanism. I've added some helpful annotations:

[...]

Lambert here. That means that Obama's proposal is not science-based. Worse, because Obama keeps denying single payer advocates a seat at the table, his program is imposing treatment on the American people without their informed consent: They aren't being given all the treatment options available to them. Even from a political standpoint, that's a little iffy. From a medical ethics standpoint, it's completely unethical and unprincipled.

[...]

NOTE * Obama's laser-like focus on costs is amazing. He ignores that all other major industrialized countries, including those with single payer systems, have better health outcomes. That's the medical science, here! And that's what Obama consistently ignores. It's amazing!


They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.

Raja May 13, 2009 - 7:57am

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