This group of doctors is traveling across the country to raise awareness about single-payer health care. Their journey will begin on September 8th and they will be in the Twin Cities on September 16th. According to their website;
Tags: Activism, Health Care, single payer health careOn September 8, 2009 a group of dedicated Oregon physicians will take the message of Universal Health Care “on the road” in a wrapped and branded Motor Home headed for Washington D.C. Our cross-country mission: to stop in big cities and whistle stops alike, conducting pre-booked, local and national media appearances for a curious press. Every move we make along the way will be recorded on camera and then edited and uploaded to the internet that same day. This will allow our Mad As Hell Doctors Tour to leverage the edited video segments on social networking web sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, et al. In this way, our effort becomes an unprecedented hybrid of reality television and political activism that offers people the opportunity to follow us, in real time, as our story unfolds. The message will be unmistakable: caravan with us to Washington and help make a public demonstration of support for Single Payer Health Care that will be heard around the world.
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Single-payer sounds nice. Certainly an improvement. But why not a public option as well? Don’t you think it’s strange how attached people are to keeping everything ‘private?’ Do we really have this allegiance to corporations? Let there be more options.
I think that I’d prefer the government to be able to provide another imperfect, but important service than continue to allow the corporate takeover that has existed for too long.
With a single-payer system, insurance companies (other than those that will provide additional coverage for things like tummy-tucks) will go away all together. Single-payer refers to the payment mechanism, in this case, the government. Like Canada, doctors and hospitals would remain private and the government would pay the bills. Single-payer has also been referred to as “medicare for all” i.e. no co-pays, no-deductibles and insurance companies out of the mix, all the while preserving private enterprise. Sounds good to me!
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