These figures show that there is a powerful mood out there for public health care. In the meantime the Obama regime and the Democrats and Republicans are playing footsie with the profit addicted health care industry. It will take a mass radical movement to get a public universal health care industry in this country. This capitalist government and both capitalist parties will never do it. End the profit in the health care industry. For universal health care for all.
Sean
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Medicine should have never been allowed to become a for-profit enterprise with the primary concern being a positive return for share holders. Denial of health care is how you make a profit now.
The AMA shares much of the blame - they fought socialized medicine in the 40s and it's been downhill ever since.
Now 59% of doctors and an even greater percentage of nurses support single payer. The AMA is a conservative organization out of sync with its constituency, which is now on the front-lines of having to strictly ration health care.
I had a buddy call me today, he had a terrible bad back and wanted "union' advice. Like myself, he's been out of work for several months. He lives in Los Vegas, once the capital of the building boom, now the capital of the construction crash.
He's fairly young and has practically never used his health benefits. He was unawares of his rights to the subsidized COBRA benefits for after his health benefits ran out. He missed the deadline by about a week and is stuck with nothing. His unemployment benefits are running low and he has no cash for a doctor.
I ended up suggesting Ibuprofen, some ideas on stretching and suggesting the internet. What a world, where you can chat online with someone in Thailand, but you can't afford to see a doctor for a painful back.
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