Tell Your Senators You Want Single Payer on the Table

DAILY KOS posting May 30--Last week in Montana Baucus aides held town halls to talk about health care. They were trying to forward the idea that most Americans who get insurance through their work are satisfied with it.

Montanans weren't buying that. When it was time for audience questions, a gentleman stood up and asked his fellow citizens how many were happy with their employer-based health insurance. In an audience of about 275, less than 10 people raised their hands.

At another meeting, even though Sen. Max Baucus' aide insisted that consideration of a national single-payer health plan at this point would only squander a golden opportunity for health care reform in the United States, many of his constituents continued to object. "The word ‘insurance' does not equal health care," Janelle Kuechle of Polson said at a meeting here Thursday. "If I have to pay a $900 premium to have health insurance with a $10,000 deductible, that is not health care."

Don't Give Up on Single Payer Health Care

I love our President but.....it's time for us to put pressure on President Obama to consider single payer health care among the options for reform. Follow the rallies, organize for single payer options in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Don't let the bad guys push us around. Single payer may not seem like a political option but it's as simple as this: you go to your doctor, you present your US health card, and the doctor gets paid by a state or local agency. He/she doesn't have to fight with for profit health companies for his pay. He/she doesn't have to argue about recommended treatment. Support single payer, lower your costs and raise your options.