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...John Geyman Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2008 MEMOS TO OBAMA John Geyman on Seizing the Moment for National Health Insurance i r s t o f f , c o n g r a t u l a t i o n s t o y o u a n d y o u r p a r t y o n y o u r s w...

... their health insurance from private insurers, mostly through their employers, with some buying it directly from insurance companies. About half as many—87 million according to the latest report from the Census Bureau—are covered by Medicare (the federal program for the elderly...

...-of-fact response: “Health care in Tonga is free.” single payer plan would save billions by streamlining the interac­ In the U nited States, despite my exhortations and tions of providers with the insurance system. As highlighted in the Mr. Tukuafu’s own experience...

... can pay for it. Our enormous private health insurance industry of 1,300 insurers competes to cover healthier and lower-risk enrollees with more limited poli­ cies each year, while denying coverage of sicker individuals or raising premiums to unafford­ able levels. That shifts the burden...

.... These are all necessary provisions, but they do not offset the harm done by other provisions in the bill, such as the individual mandate to purchase private insurance with penalties for noncompliance and the $447 billion in public dollars being used to subsidize such purchases. The bill...

... insurance to all Americans—a worthy What’s the objection to this approach? Putting aside questions goal. Improve the quality of health care by “per­ of fairness (is it fair to force those who do not want health care in­ sonalizing” treatments, focusing on prevention and surance...

... benefits for employer-sponsored the first goal, since it extends health care insurance/access to most health plans; and the rationing of treatments not considered uninsured Americans. Indeed, for roughly 40 percent of “comparatively effective.” The recent political reaction to the Americans, health...

... HEALTH R E F O R M /T H E YES MEN health insurance, reductions in planned (Medicare averages 3 percent overhead, THE YES MEN Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to while insurance companies average 20 (continued from page 16) hospitals and other providers; cuts in subsi­ percent...

... nineteenth among nineteen industrialized countries in reducing preventable deaths from amenable causes. • Wall Street is already questioning the future prospects of the private insurance industry; as of November 18, 2008, the average share prices of the top five private insurers...

... Bush’s Secretary a health care system from the start he would choose a single-payer of Defense as its own, and extend the war to Afghanistan and Pak­ model, but he said that since we already have a private-insurance- istan. Bush even fought for privatizing Social Security, a plan that based system...

..., but to the culture of ‘separated desks’ in which lack of health insurance for so many, the value of community as critical to our na­ knowledge is the prized possession that di­ numbers of our fellow citizens deprived of tion’s social, moral, and spiritual well­ vides winners from losers...

... the October 2009: the insurance companies will continue to gouge us and we pricing for the rest of the insurance industry. So, by this argument, will continue tofight back. the bill likely to get passed will be a huge giveaway to the insurance companies since it will require tens of millions of Americans...

... and the beginnings of two standards of care. Second was the development of the insurance industry from early disability insurance. As a result of the economic crises of the Depression, WWII, and the increased economic health-cost burden of an expanding population, the insurance industry expanded unchecked...

... procedures. Patients and caregivers have to insured and at risk of bankruptcy and foreclosure if they have ju m p through so m any hoops—checking netw orks, getting a serious health problem. Of the advanced nations, the United authorizations, hours on the phone—to get or provide care...

..., your house, your life savings, your health insurance and any semblance of economic security might have something to do with it.” Suicide rates are rising in other countries suffering economic downturns, including some countries with higher rates than ours. (Japan’s male suicide rate rose rapidly...

... in ways that eventually toward a caring society are still possible. After all, the new health got them a majority. care legislation does insure another 32 million people and by some The ferocity of opposition to Obama and the Democrats is not estimates will save...

... medically, and healing from our sense of gross unfairness to the 47 million people who have no health insurance. The United States is spending an average of $6,096 per person for healthcare, but the infant mortality rate is a high 7 per 1,000, and the male life expectancy is only 75...