A REMINDER:  SINGLE PAYER IS NOT OFF THE TABLE

The White House and mainstream media like to pretend that single payer never was on the table, but that is an outright lie and it continues to be a lie.  The first health care bill introduced in Congress since the Clinton fiasco with health care in the 1990’s was introduced over two years ago–H.R. 676. It currently had 83 co-signers from the house.  This bill has the support of over 60% of the American people and the approval of more members of Congress than ANY bill for health care in Congress.  Not only does it have the support of Labor, it has the support of all the progressive Democrats of America.  The only reason that the White House and mainstream media continue to pretend that this reality does not exist is because it does not support their Wall Street interests.

Healthcare for All

It is immoral for a country as wealthy as ours to have 45 million people with no health coverage, and tens of millions more with inadequate or overly expensive coverage. It also makes no economic sense; despite spending twice as much as other industrialized nations on healthcare, our system performs poorly because the private U. S. insurance bureaucracy soaks up nearly one-third of all health care money in waste, profits, paperwork and advertising. Poor health and poor health care are drags on the economy and job creation; up to half of all personal bankruptcies are caused by health care crises.

PDA supports Rep. John Conyers bill, H.R. 676, which establishes streamlined, nonprofit national health insurance–enhanced Medicare for All–which would negotiate drug and treatment costs. By replacing private insurers and recouping administrative savings of up to $300 billion per year, this single-payer approach provides topnotch health care to everyone. Care would be privately delivered by healers and hospitals, but publicly financed–with no bills, co-pays, deductibles, denials or medically-induced bankruptcies. PDA also supports health care initiatives at the state and local level that move us toward a nonprofit single-payer system.

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By the way if you think that the current attacks against John Conyers are not related to single payer and H.R. 676, then you have not been paying attention.  John Conyers is the author of H.R. 676–the best healthcare bill of them all–the bill that would provide all Americans with real health care instead of more money in the pockets of Wall Street leeches.