Rx and the Single Payer
In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama told an AFL-CIO meeting, "I am a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program." Full Story »
Posted by Dwight RousuReview
The article notes the ethics-free campaigns against an effective health care plan, financed by the health care corporations. Some good muckraking is provided regarding the villains behind the curtain.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina has hired an outside PR firm to put together a video campaign assaulting Obama’s public plan. And this month alone, the group Conservatives for Patients’ Rights is spending more than a million dollars for attack ads. They’ve hired a public relations firm called CRC — Creative Response Concepts. You remember them — the same high-minded folks who brought you the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the gang who savaged John Kerry’s service record in Vietnam. The ads feature the chairman of Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, Rick Scott.
Dwight posted this story.
Single payer makes sense. The public health care option might enable a gradual transition.