Arresting the insurance companies - LIVE
Posted on March 9th, 2010 by Jason Rosenbaum in Take Action!
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Today is the day that we arrest the insurance companies. Thousands will be in the streets today to protest the insurance companies and their skyrocketing profits while our health goes by the wayside. We'll be out there, risking it all, to show Congress how you stand up for what you believe in, and challenge them to pass health reform that works for us, not the insurance companies.
Throughout the day, I'll be posting pictures and updates via Twitter. (To get new photos, refresh the page.) Feel free to join in by twittering with the hashtag #m9.
Nice to see people from MY union (United Food And Commercial Workers) there and helping to get the Bad Guys!
Of course Fox covers it. They are the least slanted of all channels.
I'm glad a grass-roots group is fighting the spin. Here's what I wrote to the White House.
We Canadians are supporting your stand on bringing some public healthcare to your country, BUT we're amazed at the negativity alot of your citizens have against public healthcare - even from those who are not covered or "think" they're covered. The high premiums, and "spin" from your private insurance industry lobbiests is amazing - and more so when those with little coverage actually believe the scare tactics.
Here in B.C.premiums are payable for MSP coverage and are based on family size and income.
(Healthcare is a provincial jurisdiction, but is governed under the National Health Act)
Monthly rates are $54 for one person, $96 for a family of two and $108 for a family of three or more. Effective January 1, 2010 monthly rates will change to $57 for one person, $102 for a family of two and $114 for a family of three or more. One large GROUP PLAN.
http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/msp/infoben/premium.html
This to us is a no-brainer, and we, up here, find it mind-boggling why so many of you are afraid of it down there. Good luck in your fight for healthcare for all on equal terms.
As I see government is that there are two powers in this world of Money and People. Success in each group I think can be measured. The most successful in the money group are those who make or possess the most money; in the government group are those who attain the highest office in an election by its citizens and the most successful would be those who are elected by the most citizens; for example, although both are successful a person who wins a mayorship of a city in a state perhaps could be considered less successful than a governor of the same state.
We now need some system or idea that may more closely intergrate these two power sources present in society which to the ordinary person appear to be more and more polarized. Each of these two powers need each other and when out of balance discord and strive occur and which could even conceivably lead to civil war. How to introduce more sources of power in government is to allow civil servants to elect their managers at all levels and each time their is a general election in the government level from whom they receive a paycheck that managerial position also must be available in an election.
And to add to the Health Care Reform debate perhaps you can find some additional pertinent information at http://way.to/Education. Thank you.
Hey D. Bake, if Canadian healthcare is so great why did Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams go to the US for his heart surgery? Oh, wait… he said, "This was my heart, my choice and my health…I did not sign away my right to get the best possible health care for myself when I entered politics."
So that's the kind of healthcare groups like Healthcare for America want us to adopt? The only problem is, we wont have anywhere to go, unlike Danny Williams does now. We will all be stuck in mediocre.
Why did Sarah Palin go to Canada for health care?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/08/palin-crossed-border-for_n_490080.html
Well "political girl" - We are all free to go where we want to to have any medical care, and Danny, being a wealthy politician decided he wanted the "Mayo Clinic experience" even though he could've had the same operation in any of Canada's major hospitals (we're not third world wilderness here), but Danny decided what he wanted. There are many Americans who come up here as "medical tourists", because they can get the same proceedures done up here cheaper than down there - even though they'll be paying a much higher premium up here than if they were a citizen (who still wouldn't be out of pocket. Our waiting list hype is way overblown. Triage is the rule here and of course demand is higher in larger cities, but if you're willing to go down the road your knee surgery might be 1 1/2 months away instead of 3-6 months - OR, yes, we do have private clinics here where NO government funds are spend and it's totally USER pay, like you have there - but most people wait a bit and don't have to go into bankruptcy for stomach surgery. We might pay $50 for the ambulance fee, but that's it. The beautiful thing about the public option is that it creates a large pool of users - a huge group plan. Our system has no deductables, nor does it look a "pre existing" conditionals - we don't have to put up with accountants, insurance adjusters, nor HMO's. Cheers - and good health to you.