Healthcare-NOW!
August 5, 2009
There has been considerable confusion about the differences between single-payer healthcare, which Healthcare-NOW! supports, and the healthcare reform options, including President Obama’s “public option,” being introduced by the House and Senate.
So we’ve collected the following resources to clarify the difference:
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via Comparing Single-Payer with the Public Option – Healthcare-NOW!
by Dandelion Salad
Thanks to Brenda for using one of my photos in her video. It comes in at 4:47 mins.
This is a very powerful video. ~ DS
by Ed Ciaccio
Dandelion Salad
Featured Writer
Aug. 23, 2009
As more and more of us ordinary Americans wake up to the smiley-faced nightmare of how the Corporatocracy (Dems & Repubs) has taken over every aspect of our lives, and how powerless we are to significantly improve things, more and more justifiably frustrated, angry citizens will unfortunately resort to impatient, violent attempts to change the way the cards are stacked against us.
Yesterday, I spoke with a few anti-Obamacare demonstrators gathered in front of the building in which my Congressional Representative has his office (it was, of course, closed on Saturday). They were there as part of yesterday’s national “Tea Party Patriots” demonstrations against Obama’s attempt at health INSURANCE reform (which should not be confused with actual health CARE reform, since that would require a single-payer system such as Medicare for All which Obama took off the table long ago). This dialogue, initiated by me, was preparatory to my joining a nearby group of pro-universal health care counter-demonstrators gathered to offset the anti-Obamacare demonstrators.
By Jerry Mazza
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
crossposted at Online Journal August 17, 2009
www.jerrymazza.com
August 23, 2009
Let me clearly define socialism and single-payer health care, since I see and hear these terms misused many times a day on radio, television, even in newspapers, mostly to mislead and frighten people.
First, here’s a paragraph-long definition of socialism from Wikipedia from its longer, 17-page article on the history of socialism:
“Socialists mainly share the belief that capitalism unfairly concentrates power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital, creates an unequal society, does not provide equal opportunities for everyone to maximize their potentialities in society and does not utilize technology and resources to their maximum potential in the public interest. Therefore socialists advocate the creation of a society in which wealth and power are distributed more evenly based on the amount of work expended in production, although there is considerable disagreement among socialists over how and to what extent this could be achieved.”
TheLeftLibertarian
August 22, 2009
The book, Propaganda by Edward Bernays.
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defco…
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