Update on Mad As Hell Doctors and other single-payer issues
MAD AS HELL DOCTORS is a group of 7 doctors from Oregon who are so dedicated to promoting a single-payer health care system. They are about to begin touring the country in a caravan and plan to end it early October in Washington DC. They will hold town hall meetings wherever they go. Their route and relevant information is on their website.
Does single payer still have a chance? Well, for one, it is surely much harder to demonize, as Ian Welsh explains in this insightful commentary. And single payer is what Anthony Weiner’s amendment is all about (as these video clips exlpain). Weiner’s amendment would scrap the over 1000 pages of the Bizantine reform proposals under consideration and replace them with a slim, easy to understand and read, thirty-page long Medicare for All plan.
To contact your representative and urge them to support Weiner’s amendment and to read the 30-page amendment itself click here.
We have certainly guessed, Lila…
Dr. Gise, may I suggest that, as you say: “Every day I cannot treat my patients and they cannot get the care they need because of our “system”, that you should look inward for the answers? More than likely, you are responsible, and not the “system” if your patients lack the care they need. But it’s much easier to blame the insurance companies or George Bush, or the evil Halliburton, on and on ad nauseum.
And you, as well educated as you are, believe that a single-payer/government-run delivery system is the way to go. Don’t give me that lame excuse that the industrialized nations of the world have single-payer. That’s nothing to brag about.
We have the finest health care in the world right here in the good old USA. Sure, the system needs to be tweaked, but we can fix it without the heavy hand of the U.S. Government.
Cuba could use your help, so could Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. You must be miserable here.
By the way, I’m part of the “Angry Mob” Democrats on the Hill love to rail against in case you hadn’t guessed.
I am all for it, Leslie, let’s keep our fingers crossed, and call/visit/write our legislators!
Pass the Weiner amendment. The most economical and efficient way to provide health care to all, not health insurance, health care. I am a medical doctor who quit private practice afrter 30 years because of managed care. Now I work for a small salary in the public sector. Every day I cannot treat my patients and they cannot get the care they need because of our “system”.