Everybody In, Nobody Out

Mike Ferner believes that we just need to get back to HR 676, the AmericaPlan. It makes sense.

President Obama was Candidate Obama the last time he mentioned the
AmericaPlan and Sen. Baucus had 13 doctors and nurses arrested in his hearing
room for trying to get it discussed even briefly, so you may not have heard much
about the AmericaPlan.

Suffice it to say there is indeed a single payer – the federal government –
which replaces the health insurance companies and their morbidly obese salaries,
bloated bonuses, private jets to private Caribbean islands and a totally
unacceptable 30+% overhead.

That is the key. Medicare – that socialistic program teabaggers can’t wait
to take advantage of when they hit 65 – has an overhead one-tenth of the private
insurance companies! That savings nearly pays for an entire program which brings
everybody in; leaves nobody out. But to get there, our political leaders have to
take on the very same insurance companies that make those big, fat, irresistible
campaign contributions.

That’s where you and I come in.

Thanks once again to Sen. Baucus’ brilliant bill which, without the public
option fig leaf, is more likely to die a well-deserved death, we have one more
chance to pass the AmericaPlan, HR 676. To do it, we only have to do two
things:

1) Start thinking of health care as a right, not a privilege.

2) Get mad. I mean really mad.