Single-Payer Health Care: An Hour-long Special

The United Mine Workers of America held a strike in 1934 in Natal-Michelle, Kootenays B.C. Canada and the result was that the miners won and the RCMP and the company were forced to provide twenty beds in Michelle, and five beds in Corbin, and medicine free to those that needed it. This was the first tme in the British Empire that the workers and people were provided with universal healthcare coverage. Previous to this great needed event, people with curable diseases were left to die, if they did not work for the company. Doctors and medicine simply was not provided for them. The miners knew that was unjust and so took on the police and won. It was a gun battle and the miners actually won.

Medicare was provided free with the priviso that those using it must turn up and participate in the May First Parade down main street for international workers day. That was payment enough. The nation building project was then turned over to the Co=operative Commonwealth Federation--CCF, a social democratic organization, that was then to make a national healthcare scheme so that all citizens in Canada would recieve free comprehensive unibveral healthcare free of charge. If they can afford to make aggressive wars that destroy healthcare, then they can sure afford to provide funds for the making of 'cure the sickness' available to all.

Yes, single payer is the correct way to turn our society around with the ethics of need rather than greed to destroy with sickness.