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With in hours of losing the vote in the Senate Finance Committee on his public option amendment, Schumer fired off an email to his supports vowing to fight on. Schumer calls the vote in the Finance Committee, only “the opening day of the fight.” The email concludes with:
If we continue to fight, I am confident we will pass health care reform with a robust public option.
Schumer has previously said that he always thought the committee was the least friendly battlefield. He believes that he would have a better chance of including a public option on the full Senate floor or as part of the bill which comes back from conference committee.
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Schumer said on Rachel Maddow that he thought the anti-Baucus ads (she had shown the very moving one with the young Billings dad whose family had bake sales to pay his surgery bill) were unhelpful. And Chuckie looked quite peeved when he said it.
So let’s keep up the ads everywhere, shall we?
Criminally corrupt politicians are the reason the U.S. is ranked near the bottom of every catagory when ranked next to other modern, industrialized nations. Time for publically funded elections.
The Congress is back in session and doing the dirty work for the Medical Industrial Complex.
mcconnell $3.3M, hatch $2.9M, baucus $2.8M, grassley $2.7M,
lieberman $2.6M, burr $2.4M, ensign $2.4M, cornyn $2.2M, kyl $2.1M,
conrad $2.1M, cantor $1.8M, boehner $1.7M, coburn $1.2M, j wilson 800K
were paid by the Medical Industrial Complex to kill Health Care Reform.
(Source: OpenSecrets.org)
Co-Author Dr. Steffie Woolhandler of a Recent Harvard Study on Annual Deaths of America’s Uninsured, says the lack of coverage can be tied to about 45,000 deaths a year in the United States. The only way to affordably cover all Americans is through a Medicare-for-All, Single-Payer System. A Single-Payer System would generate $300-$400 billion in administrative savings annually, enough to cover all of the uninsured, and to plug the gaps in coverage for Americans with only partial coverage. Obviously, Medicare-for-all is anathema to the insurance industry. What politicians are doing is saving insurance industry profits, by sacrificing American lives.
12 Million Americans were denied health care coverage by the Medical Industrial Complex because they had a pre-existing medical condition. 12K Americans are denied insurance coverage everyday by a for-profit Insurance bureaucrat. (Source: WaPo Article 05′ by Harvard Prof. E. Warren)
Medical malpractice lawsuits are a hot topic but, are they? Tort Reform is such a “Red Herring” and is easily disproved. A 2004 report by the Congressional Budget Office said medical malpractice makes up only 2 percent of U.S. health spending. Even “significant reductions” would do little to curb health-care expenses, it concluded.
bush(43) economic speech writer david frum, at least, is willing to admit the idea about selling insurance across state lines is a crock:
New Jersey health policies cost more in large part because New Jersey hospitals and doctors charge more. If I buy a cheaper Kentucky policy that reimburses my providers at Kentucky rates, leaving me to pay the balance, how much good does that do me? And if the Kentucky policy is made to pay New Jersey rates, there vanishes my low Kentucky price.
These are some of the easily refuted arguments bought and paid for by the Medical Industrial Complex to derail any chance of their criminally massive profits being reduced.
Follow the Money: Link
Call Congress and demand, Single-Payer Health Care for All!
(Toll Free # House and Senate)
1-866-338-1015 _____ 1-866-220-0044
1-800-473-6711 _____ 1-866-311-3405
Sign Single-Payer Petition: Link
Don’t let the Medical Industrial Complex steal your Health Care from you and your family by donating huge sums of money to Crooked Politicians in order to maintain the Status Quo. Keep up the good fight.
SEMPER FI!
I caught him on matthews show giving that look,it must be working.But in the meantime I wonder how high independent registration has gone up this morning?
I know that I will becoming one.
True dat: I heard Chuck has a fist full of UNH AG Jan $35 calls.
Oh wait…those are publicly traded options. That’s something different, right?
Schumer trying to be upbeat about the Dems who are with the Rethuglicans who are voting against what the majority of people want.
Rachel Maddow took on the “conservadems” last night. She whacks Ben Nelson up side the head
Ben Nelson “any health reform would need 65 votes in the senate”
Ben “anything less than that would challenge its legitimacy”
Then Rachel has Howard Dean on to say “you vote with your leadership”
Senators set bar higher than necessary
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#33080841
The Diane Rehm show on (what took place yesterday) this topic. Now… 10 est
Send in your questions comments, tweet etc. Flood her program with questions comments
http://wamu.org/programs/dr/
drshow@wamu.org
800-443-8850
I think our response should be one better than ads now. We should start building a campaign war chest to run a progressive candidate against each of the three Dems that voted against Schumer’s amendment. Its clear that having a Democratic majority is insufficient to make the kind of systemic changes necessary to position the country to succeed in the future while meeting appropriate social responsibilities.