Friday August 7, 2009, 1:30 pm
This video shows it all. This is why Obama's healthcare is a pure and utter failure to address the problems with healthcare in this country. You CANNOT make necessities like medical care a for-profit business!!! It is NOT a business, healthcare is a need and necessary to have and maintain a healthy and productive community and, on a larger scale, country.
Handing somethng of such importance over to a bunch of greedy heartless, souless monsters is not only barbaric, but what you get is what we have right now. We are the only industrialized country that has not gained enough morality and ethics and brains to come out of the dark ages!
This video show why single-payer healthcare, HR 676 IS THE ONLY healthcare reform that will actually do just that, REFORM our healthcare nightmare and let all Americans live their lives in peace and not fear.
Obama's barbaric plan is nothing more than a private insurance bailout plan under the guise of "healthcare reform". It guarentees insurance companies even more money form all citizens or they go to jail. How can anyone with a conscience support that. REform means change. Mor of the same only mandating citizens hand over their money to these giant monsters is nto change!
HR 676 is it folks. Gather your courage, get up off your behinds, quit moaning and whining and fight for single-payer heatlhcare HR 676. The House is going to debate it and and vote on it in September. This is our chance to stop private insurance companies, stop Obama and get real healtcare reform that will save taxpayer money, save citizens money and let us all live healthier better quality lives. Sign the petitions, make the phone calls, send the faxes. We don't get this cahnce again later. Do it now!!! It doesn't happen by itself. Harraqss your Representative until they are afraid of you!
If this video is not enough to get you moving then you must be a member of congress or an insurance CEO...just plain dark and cold inside.
www.pnhp.org
www.healthcare-now.org
www.1payer.net
www.calnurses.org

Friday August 7, 2009, 1:40 pm
Unless I am very much mistaken I believe Obama stated that he is in favour of single payer, but I have been wrong before...Unfortunately it will take more than Obama to pass the bill...

I have signed many petitions for single payer, it's all I can do...I hope you do too?...

Thanks for the forum Jill...

Friday August 7, 2009, 1:46 pm

Thanks for exposing this, Jill! At this point, the only plan I will support is HR 676!

Friday August 7, 2009, 1:52 pm
Yes David, Obama DID support single-payer, but that was BEFORE he ran for president and had to sell his soul to get enough contributions form priavte insurance companies to win.
His healthcare plan he is pushing now is not much more than a mandate that EVERY American buy private health insurance or else pay a fine. If you do not pay the fine you go to jail.
This is nothing more than extortion. you are forced to pay money to private companies for coverage you will never get. Obama is ignoring what the majority of Americans, doctors and nurses have been demanding. It is his duty as well as Congress to represent the American people NOT corporations. They all took an oath and now they are breaking it. They are in breach of the contract they swore to between them and the American people. A majority want single payer and it is their job to see that it is done!
Thank you so much for signing single payer petitions. Make sure they are really single payer petitions. Ther are a lot of frauds out there tricking people. Use the links I gave. They are good groups.

Friday August 7, 2009, 2:22 pm
This is absolutely disgusting. We need to get rid of Stephen Hemsley, his mission is to help people lead healthier lives? Give his family this same treatment. He is a sociopath! Who is running us! Let's fight against these moronic scammers!

Friday August 7, 2009, 2:23 pm
 
Pass H.R. 676 (from Michael Moore)
 

Friday August 7, 2009, 2:31 pm
So, thanks to Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), Speaker Pelosi says she will bring a vote to the floor on single-payer after the recess. Are you all ready to make those phone calls and write those letters?


Nancy's contact info..http://speaker.house.gov/contact/

Send our speaker an e-mail of encouragement.

Friday August 7, 2009, 3:06 pm
this is so unfair.... OBAMA' you are on the way out.AMERICA WILL NOT BE A COMMUNIST COUNTRY.. MOVE IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT. YOUR FACES ON TV SHOW IT ALL ANGER , AND MENACE, I AM SO ASHAMED TO BE A DEMOCRAT, GLAD i STILL VOTED MY HEART... hILLARY, AND HET CLINTONS, WALK AWAY.. OBAMA HAS MADE FOOLS OF YOU . EXCEPT FOR THE LAST PREZ. CLINTON VENTURE. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THOSE GIRLS HOME, I JUST FEEL HORRIBLE WONDERING WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO IN RETURN. JIMMY CARTER.. MY HERO, BILL... FOLLOW HIM.. HE DID SOMETHING STUPID(NUCLEAR SUBS) BUT HAS SPENT THE REST OF HIS LIFE THUS FAR MAKING UP FOR IT. BLESS YOU.

Friday August 7, 2009, 3:10 pm
Yes, I am ready to make the calls. And, yes, it is single-payer, HR676, or nothing. Otherwise, what will be passed will just be a bill giving yet more money to the insurance companies.I want the insurance companies GONE.

Friday August 7, 2009, 3:22 pm
Yes, we of sound mind know that single payer is best for the people, but since it is NOT best for all those insurance companies, we the people are screwed!

Friday August 7, 2009, 3:54 pm
 
For more info on Insurance CEO's:
Sick For Profit
 
 

Friday August 7, 2009, 5:55 pm
Anti-Reform Group Takes Credit For Helping Gin Up Town Hall Rallies


Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, the operation that’s running a national campaign against a public health care option, is now publicly taking credit for helping gin up the sometimes-rowdy outbursts targeting House Dems at town hall meetings around the country, raising questions about their spontaneity.

CPR is the group headed by controversial former hospitals exec Rick Scott that’s spending millions on ads attacking reform in all sorts of lurid ways, a campaign that’s being handled by the same P.R. mavens behind the Swift Boat Vets.

In response to my questions, a spokesman for the group confirmed that it has undertaken a concerted effort to get people out to the town hall meetings to protest reform. The spokesperson, Brian Burgess, confirmed that CPR is emailing out “town hall alert” flyers, and schedules of town hall meetings, to its mailing list.

These efforts — combined with CPR’s effort to enlist Tea Party-ers, as reported yesterday by TPM — provide a glimpse into the ways anti-reform groups are trying to create a sense of public momentum in their favor.

CPR spokesman Burgess confirmed that the group had set up a list serv designed to reach out to “third party groups” involved in the health care fight, including the Tea Party activists. And in a
statement emailed to me, Scott, who was ousted as a health-care exec amid a 1990s fraud probe, took credit for the town hall showings.
“We have invested a lot of time, energy and resources into educating Americans over the past several months about the dangers of government-run health care and I think we’re seeing some of the fruits of that campaign,” Scott said, though he claimed outrage was spontaneous.

Similarly, America’s Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP, the insurance industry group, has stationed employees in 30 states to track local town hall events.

The question is whether these uprisings are actually helpful to the anti-reform cause, or whether their raucus agitprop will work againt them. Dems have blasted out to reporters examples of protestors harrassing House Dems.

“The more you dig the more you learn that this is a carefully orchestrated effort by special interest lobbyists and the Republican Party, who are using fringe elements on the right to protect insurance company profits and defeat health care reform,” said House Dem leadership aide Doug Thornell. “The anger at these events looks very similar to what we saw at McCain/Palin rallies in the fall.”

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Update: The White House attacks CPR for manufacturing anger.

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Posted by Greg Sargent | 08/04/2009, 12:12 PM EST | Categories: House Dems, health care, political advertising

Friday August 7, 2009, 7:37 pm
noted

Friday August 7, 2009, 8:11 pm
Big insurance companies have spent over 130 million just to defete Obama's bill. They and republicans are behind these mob scenes and town meetings, making it so no one can get the truth. They bus people to these things and give them scripts to yell and cause a rucus. That is all republicans have to offer, nothing positive, only negitive.

Must really get repubs and religious right riled up that 1. unemployment is down for the first time in over a year; 2 car sales are going through the roof, which creates jobs not only for the auto companies, but all the supliers and such...stimulus at work; 3 other countries are now more willing to work with US; and we got 2 citizens out of N Korea. Could you imagine Bush going there??? If the girls saw him, they would know they are f__cked. :)

Friday August 7, 2009, 9:08 pm
its not just obama and other presently involved with insurance issues or healthcare issues, there has been reps of the past that have addressed these things with great failure to helping anyone that is in need of insurances or health care provisions.
politically its just something to keep us interested or against some politician.
what we really need to go after is big corporations and politicians that keep getting paid millions to pass stupid insurance co wants.
another thought that has entered my mind many times..
insurances is not much different then the mafia of many years ago. the word of protection for you, but heck they will brake your legs if you don't pay!
well the insurance co. and its followers do just that. we the people pay for protection that we get denied to have, or prevented from using for our own benefits and needs. they get rich and we suffer and lack all the way around the systems, insurances, and health needs.
has been such for many years and i don't feel that anything that is done now, will be any better for the people that should have and need health care provided. its just a word of promise or hope, that is being disussed by powers and persons that benefit and pull the blinders on the rest of us. once its said and done, there will still be troubles in these areas for the every day persons.

Friday August 7, 2009, 9:39 pm
Yup, single payer is the only way out. It has been a success everywhere else, and there's no reason to think it can't work here. The insurance companies are holding the rest of us hostage and lining their pockets by picking our pockets--at least those of us who have insurance. Those who don't should just die quietly and not make such a fuss. I'm all for free enterprise, but this level of corporate theft at the expense of those who supposedly "benefit" is unconscionable. We may not get single payer first time around, but we have to get at least a public option with an upgrade to single payer down the road.

Saturday August 8, 2009, 1:09 am
I agree with you Barry. But Its going to be a battle to get anything. The insurance companies have been running a PR campaign like nothing I have ever seen before. They have fooled people into going up against their own interests. They have pumped money left and right into keeping single payer and an public option out. I hate to say it but I will be surprised if we get either one or anything. But I know we have to keep fighting anyway. Man it sure would be nice to have single payer. I can't understant anyone who wouldn't want it.

Saturday August 8, 2009, 11:05 am
Civil War?

Thats what Palin, Limbaugh, etc.... want.

Saturday August 8, 2009, 12:49 pm
Cynthia--The fact that the insurances companies are redoubling their efforts to thwart ANY health care reform, especially single payer, just means that we have to redouble our efforts to get it done.

Sunday August 9, 2009, 5:39 am
Noted. Thanks.

Sunday August 9, 2009, 7:31 am
Sending a Green Star is a simple way to say "Thank you"
You cannot currently send a star to Barry because you have done so within the last week.

Monday August 10, 2009, 4:23 pm
Are there enough Americans who want single payer? Surely their voices count? If their representatives don't play ball surely they can be voted out of office at the next elections? I'm rooting for you dear friends.

Tuesday August 11, 2009, 7:13 am
From Colette Campbell, the NJ Director of Americans for Prosperity, that should be passed along to anyone and everyone on your e-mail list. It is, in my opinion, the most accurate, objective analysis of the proposed “health care reform” bill now before the House of Representatives.
Please forward this to everyone you know so they are up to date and do not place themselves in the embarrassing position of being proved wrong on this vital issue.


The battle over our health care is reaching new heights. There has been a flood of misinformation via the internet regarding House Bill H.R. 3200, the most prominent of the proposals currently being advanced. While this bill is dangerous, it is essential those of you who are attending Town Hall meetings, calling legislators, getting on talk radio and writing letters to editors have all of the correct facts. The left is already calling criticism of this radical governmentalism of our health care false and nasty. A well educated citizen is the best defense of our liberty we can put forth. I am sending you a comprehensive analysis of one of the more popular lists of claims about the bill prepared by our Americans for Prosperity staff. I know it is long, but please take the time to read this. You can’t afford not to.
(Disclaimer: We are discussing H.R. 3200, the current House proposal, which as of August 6, 2009 has not had the amendments from the three House committee markups included in the text.)
CLAIM: Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!
This is TRUE. A commissioner will coordinate with the Secretary of Health and Human Services to create a report detailing the size, scope and stability of self-insured plans. The goal of this report is to “ensure that the law does not provide incentives for small and Mid-size employers to self-insure.” In other words, this bill will work to eliminate self insurers.
CLAIM: Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!
This is PARTIALLY TRUE. The bill does not outline rationing in this section.
However, what it does do is establish cost sharing limitations. These government imposed limits on benefits paid are the statutory groundwork for what could become Rationing once costs inevitably spiral out of control in a government run system.
CLAIM: Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (And, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)
This is TRUE. A health care advisory committee will be established with the intent of Defining “the essential benefits package … including categories of covered treatments, Items and services within benefit classes, and cost-sharing.” This new bureaucracy is Essential if politicians want to impose a mandate Americans to get coverage. Bureaucrats will then decide what qualifies as acceptable coverage to meet that mandate.
CLAIM: Page 42: The “Health Choices Commissioner” will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.
This is PARTIALLY TRUE. This section is an extension of the issue discussed above.
CLAIM: Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare
services.
This is FALSE. The referenced section refers to non-discrimination of coverage, which has cost implications, but does not discuss providing coverage to non-citizens.
CLAIM: Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcare.
This is FALSE. However, the section in question does pose other problems. We invite you to read and ponder the implications: “Enable the real-time determination of an individual’s financial responsibility at the point of service and, to the extent possible, prior to service, including whether the individual is eligible for a specific service with a specific physician at a specific facility, which may include utilization of a machine-readable health plan beneficiary identification card.”
CLAIM: Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
This is TRUE. The bill allows Health and Human Services to “enable electronic funds transfers, in order to allow automated reconciliation with the related health care payment and remittance.”
CLAIM: Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
This is PARTIALLY TRUE. The bill provides for a reinsurance program for employer based plans. This provision is troubling because it puts taxpayers on the hook for improperly managed private retirement health care systems. As the claim suggests, union retirement plans are some of the most under funded in the country and stand to gain significantly.
CLAIM: Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.
This claim is TRUE and undisputed.
CLAIM: Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)
This is FALSE. The section merely outlines the limits for the types of plans that will be allowed in the exchange.
CLAIM: Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens
This is TRUE. However, plenty of people in this country don’t speak English as their first language but are not illegal aliens.
CLAIM: Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Aerators to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
This is PARTIALLY TRUE. This section does not talk about ACORN but does outline an outreach program to educate individuals and employers about the government system. However, it is certainly a legitimate concern to consider who the government would contract to conduct this “outreach and education.”
CLAIM: Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.
This is TRUE. The commissioner of the health board would be instructed to create a process under which someone that “has not elected to enroll in an Exchange-participating health benefits plan is automatically enrolled under Medicaid.” This is another in a line of bureaucratic programs that will further limit and control an individual’s choice in care.
CLAIM: Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No “judicial review” is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.
This is TRUE. The section clearly states that there “shall be no administrative or judicial review of a payment rate or methodology” used rate-setting decisions. This provision is critical if government wants to be able to use its coercive power against the private insurers.
CLAIM: Page 127: The American Medical Association (AMA) sold doctors out: the government will set wages.
This is PARTIALLY TRUE. This section establishes various levels of participation for physicians, including: preferred, participation non-preferred and other providers. These categories each contain limitations on the level of services government will reimburse for and the level of cost sharing that patients and providers must bear.
CLAIM: Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.
This is PARTIALLY TRUE. The bill states that an employer must enroll an employee in the government plan unless the employee specifically opts out and instead “elects coverage under an employment-based health benefits plan offer by such employer.” This is a vehicle through which private insurers will be squeezed from the marketplace. The government-run program will be able to offer lower premiums to the employee who will
be forced to choose between the size of the withholding from his paycheck and the quality of care offered.
CLAIM: Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400,000 or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll
This is TRUE and undisputed.
CLAIM: Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250,000 – 400,000 who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll
This is TRUE and undisputed.
CLAIM: Page 167: Any individual who doesn’t’ have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.
This is TRUE. The bill states “any individual who does not meet the requirements of [the government program] is hereby imposed a tax equal to 2.5 percent … of the taxpayer’s modified adjusted gross income.”
CLAIM: Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).
This is TRUE. The bill specifies that the mandates and tax penalties do not apply to individual who is a non-resident alien. However, it does not say Americans will pay for them.
CLAIM: Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.
This is TRUE. With regards to determining government-determined “affordability credit,” the Health Choice Administration is empowered to gain access to tax return information or other such information that may be required to determine eligibility.
CLAIM: Page 203: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.” Yes, it really says that.
This is TRUE. With regards to a calculation of the amount of credit offered in a different
section of the bill, it does say that, the “tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.”
CLAIM: Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected.”
This is PARTIALLY TRUE. The bill does not specifically limit care to seniors.
However, it does seek to contain costs by asserting a new fee schedule for payment. This could have the effect of inducing physicians to limit the choices of seniors to receive certain care that does not fit the new schedule.
CLAIM: Page 241: Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, you’ll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)
This is PARTIALLY TRUE. The bill sets up new service categories, and pays according to the category. However, placement of physician classes into the categories and expenditures per service category are established by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
CLAIM: Page 253: Government sets value of doctors’ time, their professional judgment, etc.
This is TRUE. The government will decide the value of doctor’s “time, mental effort and professional judgment, technical skill and physical effort, and stress due to risk.” The market determination for the importance of these functions is completely eliminated under the public plan.
CLAIM: Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.
This is FALSE. This provision establishes a best practices and productivity improvement incorporation program.
CLAIM: Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
This is TRUE. However, it is a reclassification of an existing regulation and contract standards.
CLAIM: Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!
This is PARTIALLY TRUE. The bill requires a review of cancer hospital payments be undertaken and costs adjusted accordingly. Although this will likely have the effect of lowering reimbursements and thus limitation quality care, the bill does not, in itself, ration care.
CLAIM: Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable readmissions.
This is TRUE. “In order to account for excess readmissions in the hospital, the Secretary shall reduce the payments that would otherwise be made to such hospital.” Once again, this is government asserting its own bureaucratic judgment in the place of doctors and hospitals and punishing those who do not conform.
CLAIM: Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.
This is TRUE. This is an extension of the above provision that relates to hospitals, only this time, applying it to physicians. Payment reduction will occur if a physician “sees an individual within the first week after discharge from a hospital or critical access hospital.”
CLAIM: Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare
companies!
This is PARTIALLY TRUE. This section refers to rural operations and contains a percentage of ownership that doctors are not allowed to exceed. However, physician owned operations are very important in many rural areas and limiting a doctor’s ability to own an operation could severely cripple care.
CLAIM: Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without
government approval.
This is TRUE. This section limits the ability of physician-owned facilities to increase “the number of operating rooms, procedure rooms or beds of the hospital at any time after the date of the enactment.”
CLAIM: Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on “community” input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.
This is PARTIALLY TRUE. The section provides an opportunity for community input in the proposed expansion of the facility. However, it does not hinge on community approval.
CLAIM: Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.
This is PARTIALLY TRUE. The bill does affect a shift toward a focus on outcome based medicine. This section requires a report to “reflect the outcomes of care experienced by individual enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans.” This type of reporting will lay the groundwork for the limitation of care to those procedures that the government believes produces the best outcome.
CLAIM: Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.
This is TRUE. This section is a continuation of the empowerment of Health and Human Services to define what qualifies as adequate coverage.
CLAIM: Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.
This is TRUE. The section is entitled “Extension of Authority of Special Needs Plans to Restrict Enrollment.” The section also requires a study into special needs treatment.
CLAIM: Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).
This is TRUE. The section expands an existing Telehealth program.
CLAIM: Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?
This is TRUE. An end-of-life care consultant program is endorsed and outlined explaining the role of such a consultant and the required actions that much be taken by a consultant.
CLAIM: Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.
This is PARTIALLY TRUE. The bill does require that this information be provided. However, it does not contain an estate tax provision.
CLAIM: Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.
This is TRUE. A list of end-of-life resources available from the government is required to be provided.
CLAIM: Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.
This is PARTIALLY TRUE. The bill does not mandate this program, it establishes the parameters under which such a program is offered.
CLAIM: Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient’s health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
This is PARTIALLY TRUE. The bill contains a section allowing for an individual to leave a medical order with an end-of-life consultant, who will then execute it should the need arise.
CLAIM: Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of life.
This is PARTIALLY TRUE. Similar to the above claim, an end-of-life planner will carry out the wishes of the patient, including treatments wanted and not wanted.
CLAIM: Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.
This is TRUE. Government will reach out to and fund community-based medical homes that provide care and supervision of primary care by doctors. However, there is nothing to suggest ACORN would benefit.
CLAIM: Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.
This is TRUE. Similar as outlined above.
CLAIM: Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.
This is PARTIALLY TRUE. Although the bill strikes coverage for clinical social work, it expands the Social Security Act to include marriage and family therapists. However, it relates to private therapy services.
CLAIM: Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.
This is PARTIALLY TRUE. Similar provision as was provided above for marriage counseling. Of the 47 total claims that were offered from the first 495 pages of the 1018 page bill, Patients First finds:
• 25 to be TRUE
• 18 to be a PARTIALLY TRUE
• 4 to be FALSE
H.R. 3200 is a massive reordering of America’s health care services with a heavy bias toward injecting the government’s judgment in place of doctors, installing bureaucratic control in place of patient discretion and enacting significant tax increases in hopes of stemming the deficit busting costs of the new programs.
The analysis above provides a starting point for the digestion of the complex and onerous provisions in the current House proposal. On balance, I find the provisions examined to be a significant threat to the quality of our country’s health care. But don’t take my word for it, read the sections of the bill outlined above and make your own decision. That’s the best way to fight back against the big government mentality that is attempting to seize the nation.

Tuesday August 11, 2009, 7:30 am
This Bill HR 3200 was developed and written by private insurance CEOs and representatives so it is everything private insurance companies want. Therefore, it is everything right-wingers LOVE! All corporate control "free market" mening free to price gouge and cheat doctors and patients with absolutely no oversight, regulation nor consequences. Limiting doctors' pay is the idea of the insurance companies. This is their Bill. Why do you think insurance companies are behind it 100%? They wrote it!
That is why I support single-payer HR 676. It is the ONLY way we will have fair and equal access to the same healthcare for everyone regardless of income. That is why private insurance companies hate it.
Insurance companies LOVE HR 3200 and HATE HR 676. That says a lot! Knowing what scumbags private insurance companies and their CEOs are I'll support anything they don't like. You know it has to be right and ethical if they don't like it.

Tuesday August 11, 2009, 7:32 am
On health care, the only options Congress, and the corporate
lobbyists who bought them off with 30 pieces of silver, are planning
on giving us are for NO reform at all, or for us to be FORCED to
enroll in the existing bad system with no real savings. Any and ALL
talk about a so-called "public option" other than TRUE single payer,
is a great, big, honking scam, semantically designed to provide a
distraction to the debate, a toothless and ineffectual alternative,
assuming they don't ultimately kill it off altogether.

OK, so that's THEIR plan. And there is only one power on earth that
CAN stop it . . . YOU.

Yes, you and the collective power of your voices speaking out can
make a real difference now while Congress is in recess, SUPPOSEDLY
and presumptively listening to what their constituents have to say.
And all we are asking you to do this entire month to save your own
life is to make ONE phone call this month, and log notes of the
results of your conversation on this special resource page.

HR 676 People's Phone Lobby:
http://www.peaceteam.net/lobby.php?bill=HR676

Go to the page above and it will look up your members of Congress by
your address. Then all you have to do is select your member of
Congress, and then click on the "Call them on these numbers" link to
instantly access all their local district office numbers, so you can
call them where they live right in your own area.

Call their office and ask to speak to someone who can DISCUSS their
position on single payer health care, and HR 676 specifically. If
they refuse to do so or say there is no such person who can engage in
such a discussion, enter that in the "Notes of my call" section on
the page above.

Then ask them their position, and if they don't agree with us, that
ONLY single payer offers any hope of real change, DEBATE with them
right on the phone. And to make it so easy for you to be the most
informed constituent to ever pick up a phone to call a member of
Congress, there is a link "Easy Policy Points" right there above the
notes box the opens up a window with all the most essential policy
arguments we want to make, together with links to back up information
resources for your own interest.

Now ... enter notes of what transpired during the call, and if you do
it, and all your fellow constituents do it, we will quickly build up
a very public record of just which members of Congress are listening
to us, and which are not, on one of the most critical generational
issues before us, how to fix the huge health care system mess.

If you will just do that, make ONE phone call this month using the
People's Phone Lobby page below, we will be well on our way to a true
single payer system, or else we will eat one of the new "Single Payer
Health Care" caps!

It's a simple two step plan, 1) MAKE them disclose their position, 2)
then advocate for ours. It's what lobbyists do day in and day out and
all night too, to pressure members of Congress. And it's time that we
the people, with our vastly larger numbers, started doing exacting
the same thing

HR 676 People's Phone Lobby:
http://www.peaceteam.net/lobby.php?bill=HR676

OK, so what if you are too busy to make a call during the day during
normal weekday business hours? No problem!! Make the call any other
time you can. If your member of Congress is too lazy to even bother
to clear their answering machine, THAT is what you should enter as
your notes on the page above.

The simple point is that many members of Congress think they can get
away with hiding out on the health care issue. Many of them are
refusing to hold town hall meetings this month for fear that single
payer advocates will show up and speak out, thus causing them public
embarrassment for their corruption. We are just beginning to
embarrass those who have been paid off to betray the people's
interest. And this new PUBLIC interface is designed to do just that.

Of course, to protect your privacy your own name appear only as
initials in the People's Phone Lobby Blog, but people will get the
point about how many of us are calling, and what responses we are
getting.

HR 676 People's Phone Lobby:
http://www.peaceteam.net/lobby.php?bill=HR676

OK, so what if your current member of Congress is drop kick blue dog
or worse. That is all the MORE reason to make your phone calls and
make a record of just how much they DON'T represent the constituents
in your own district. How many times have we heard from you saying
that so and so member of Congress will never listen. Isn't it about
time we demonstrate for the whole country to see just how
UNREPRESENTATIVE they are on the single payer issue?

So please, go to the page above and make your ONE phone call this
month, and lets have thousands of log entries that anyone can read,
to show who is representing we the people, and who is actually
representing only them the special corporate interests, to the real
and mortal detriment of the rest of us all.

And yes, we just got in the new "Single Payer Health Care" caps, and
we are going to be shipping them out just as fast as we can. So if
you had already requested yours it will arrive soon. And if you have
not yet requested one, there can be no better thing to wear to
demonstrate that you are a single payer health care advocate, and you
can do so, or get any of our other progressive policy gifts at this
page.

Single Payer Health Care Cap: http://www.peaceteam.net/all_gifts.php

And yes, you can also respond to this action through the new Twitter
gateway. Just send the following Twitter reply, and add any personal
comment you like.

@cxs #p998

And if you want a step by step explanation of how to set up the
Twitter thing here is the link for that.

Twitter Activism Step-By-Step: http://tcxs.net/step_by_step.php

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

Tuesday August 11, 2009, 9:20 am
Namcy,
Colette Campbell, the NJ Director of Americans for Prosperity
Give me a break. This crap come straight out of the Rebubilcan Insurance Corp. hand book its all LIES. Colette Campbell comes start from Big Insurance. And the director of Americans for Prosperity in my state used to work for Tom Delay remember Tom Delay Nancy. The biggest dishonest lying crook that ever slithered in and out of the white house. Your info is tainted and smells of big insurance. Wake up you are being used

Tuesday August 11, 2009, 9:24 am
Nanct,
Colette Campbell, the NJ Director of Americans for Prosperity
Give me a break. This crap comes straight out of the Rebubilcan Insurance Corp. hand book its all LIES. Colette Campbell comes start from Big Insurance. And the director of Americans for Prosperity in my state used to work for Tom Delay remember Tom Delay Nancy. The biggest dishonest lying crook that ever slithered in and out of the white house. Your info is tainted and smells of big insurance. Wake up you are being used

Tuesday August 11, 2009, 2:50 pm
Cynthia is right. This is just more hogwash from the insurance companies who haven't got the guts to stand up and identify themselves.