Why not strengthen and expand already existing Medicare for ALL?

by Monday, Jul. 16, 2012 at 3:53 PM





By strengthening and supporting already existing Medicare and granting these basic protections to ALL U.S. citizens there will be no lack of coverage for the uninsured.

"If it's not broken, don't fix it!"

There is nothing wrong with Medicare! Why couldn't Obama just put his energy into supporting and strengthening already existing Medicare and Medicaid instead of trying to reinvent the wheel?

Can anyone say ego?



3 days left to change the presidential health care debate


Posted by Jill Stein for President 570.80pc on June 27, 2012 · Flag




Five leading advocates for Medicare for All today released a letter urging financial and other support for Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. The letters writers were Dr. Andy Coates, Katie Robbins, Dr. Margaret Flowers, Mark Dunlea, and Gloria Mattera.

The advocates released their support letter as candidate Stein, a physician from Massachusetts who first became nationally known as an environmental health advocate, enters the final days of a push to qualify for federal matching funds. Stein has won 29 state primaries and has been declared the "presumptive nominee" of the Green Party by virtue of having won more than half the delegates to the Green Party convention. In the next few days she must reach fundraising goals in 7 additional states in order to qualify for federal matching funds.

The text of the letter follows below:

URGENT! PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

Dear friends working for health care as a human right,

In all the sound and fury over the Supreme Court's health care ruling, the simple truth is being lost: We know how to provide affordable health care for every American. There is a proven solution -- improved "Medicare for All" (or single-payer health insurance). It's working in nation after nation around the world. It is the only fiscally responsible way out of the health care mess. And it's not unconstitutional.

When President Obama slammed the door in the face of single-payer health care advocates, and abandoned the "public option", it seemed that we were doomed to debating slight variations on the failing status quo. But in the wake of the Obamacare/Romneycare crackup, we have an incredible opportunity to reframe the health care debate by injecting a long-time advocate for Medicare-for-All (single-payer) into the presidential dialogue.

Jill Stein, a physician from Massachusetts, has just won 29 state primaries to secure the presidential nomination of the Green Party. She is a powerful voice for universal, affordable health care, and we need to make sure she is heard. Putting her on the ballot will also give millions of Americans the opportunity to go into the voting booth on November 6 and vote for a change in direction instead of more of the same.

But Dr. Stein needs our help. Thanks to an outpouring of support from across the nation, she is within striking distance of qualifying for federal matching funds. She only needs to raise $24,000 more by midnight on June 30. That's not much money in the big scheme of things. But it will make all the difference in making sure Jill Stein is on the ballot across the nation and can impact the health care debate this fall.

That's not much money to ask considering all the money we've spent trying to get Washington to listen to us. We can do it.

So I'm urging you do two things. First, go to Jill Stein's website, http://www.jillstein.org/donate, and make a generous donation to her campaign. Second, please forward this email to your friends and networks who care about solving our health care crisis. Spreading this message is critically important.

Dr. Stein will file for matching funds on July 1. Please forward this email and help put her over the top!

Thank you for helping us open up a new dialogue on health care.

Sincerely,

Dr. Andy Coates, national president-elect, Physicians for a National Health Program
Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! Board of Directors
Dr. Margaret Flowers, Physicians for a National Health Program
Mark Dunlea, Single Payer New York
Gloria Mattera, Physicians for a National Health Program



http://www.jillstein.org/presidential_health_care_debate