Single payer health care

I just spent half the day writing to Obama, Biden and the people in the administration asking me to be a team leader to promote the health care insurance that now seems to be their new plan.

Well, it is NOT MY PLAN. I am not pushing for anything but SINGLE PAYER health care system. We should have the same type of health care that every other civilized country in the world has. No matter what the republicans say, there is no more 'long waiting time' in Canada or G.B. than there is in this country...if you need immediate surgery you get it. This I know because of friends in both places. If you can wait, you may have to because of the people who need immediate care.

I now have to disagree with our President. We must get rid of the insurance companies who are ruining our health care system, and go to single payer. I don't care that you feel that you cannot 'start from scratch' and therefore can't change the present system. You can END from scratch..... end the dreadful way they treat the people who are paying outrageous sums of money for poor care...for 'care' that is getting worse every day. The only way I can explain is to show the difference between the 'care' given to my daughter, who supposedly has one of the best plans -- and her friend in Canada, who has government health care.

My daughter Whitney had breast cancer approximately a year ago. The doctor actually botched the operation and had to open her up a second time to get the last bit of cancer out (anyone else would have sued, she didn't). She had only three (3) days in hospital... that seems to be all they allow except for someone who can't get out of bed or is dying. She went back to work almost immediately, during her chemo and radiation.... why... because there was no coverage for REST (how DARE she do that!) and she needed the pay to pay off the $30,000 she had to pay out of pocket for something that wasn't covered, of course. She is still pale, wan, thin and tired, while her friend in Canada is back to her old self, feeling fine, because she was COVERED.

I will not rest until the nurses and doctors and patients who want SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE are heard at the same hearings where ALL the INSURANCE COMPANIES and partisan republican organizations ARE HEARD. American Heritage indeed!!! They were there... with their one-sided argument, of course. Haven't the insurance companies built themselves enough buildings and over-paid their executives enough?