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Healthcare Reform by Paulette Garin

• Dec 10, 2009 Posted by Karen Erb

  The Democratic View – by Paulette Garin

   

  The Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s platform contains three resolutions in regard to Healthcare Reform all supporting Single Payer.

   

  Single Payer is the gold standard of healthcare reform.  It is 100% guaranteed coverage for all Americans regardless of job transfer or pre-existing condition.  It fulfills President Obama’s 3 principles of cost effectiveness, access, and choice unlike any other proposal. 

   

  Single Payer is the only plan that guarantees “Everybody In, Nobody Out.”

   

  Single Payer will control the costs of healthcare for millions of Americans, as well as state and local governments.  By removing private and for-profit health insurance companies from participating in American healthcare, there is no need for Federal taxpayer subsidies to insurance companies.  No one is going to be fined, treated as a tax evader, or risk jail time for failing to buy health insurance under a Single Payer system.  A Single Payer system would actually SAVE $400 billion annually. 

   

  Single Payer is the ONLY plan where losing your job does not mean losing your healthcare.  Single Payer guarantees your choice of doctor and hospital, unlike those whose choice remains with their insurance company. 

   

  Single Payer eliminates the shameful disparities in U.S. healthcare.  The proposed expansion of Medicaid will not lessen disparities and is unsustainable as states will be forced to absorb the costs.  Just because a patient has Medicaid, does not guarantee a healthcare provider will accept them and the low Medicaid reimbursement rate. 

   

  Single Payer is NOT “socialized medicine.” Single Payer IS publicly funded, but privately driven by YOU and your doctor.  Single Payer is quite simply “Expanded and Improved Medicare for All.”  Have you heard of anyone wanting to give up their Medicare?

   

  Single Payer eliminates the bureaucratic middlemen of the insurance industry that take 31% of every healthcare dollar.  No insurance company CEO will decide who has medical coverage under a Single Payer plan. 

   

  Healthcare reform in the form of Single Payer is the REAL Economic Stimulus package.  The number one factor affecting an American company’s ability to be competitive in the global economy is employee health insurance costs.

   

  If we do not get Single Payer healthcare passed at the federal level, momentum will continue to build nationwide to pass Single Payer legislation within individual states.  Please encourage members of Wisconsin’s State Legislature to support Single Payer.

   

  On July 22, 2009, President Obama gave a press conference where he said, “"I want to cover everybody…  Unless you have a single-payer system… you're probably not going to reach every single individual." 

   

  What can we do right now?  Call and/or write Senators Feingold and Kohl ask them to support Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT) and his Single Payer Amendments.   In addition, contact Wisconsin’s entire congressional delegation asking them to support Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s Amendment which would allow individual states to pursue Single Payer legislation.

   

  Unlike any of the other proposals currently circulating through Congress,

  Single Payer is the most humane, cost effective and comprehensive solution we have - the gold standard.

   

  
  
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