More Than a Prayer for Single Payer

Huh?

This is the link, I think:

http://prospect.org/cs/articles?arti...r_single_payer

The American Prospect is far from a unbiased source, and any information that come from it should be carefully weighed.

From their own web site; "The American Prospect was founded in 1990 as an authoritative magazine of liberal ideas, committed to a just society, an enriched democracy, and effective liberal politics."

Of course they are going to write a pro-liberal, higher tax, bigger government article.

I hope a few states (CA for one) can go through with universal health care prior to it going nation wide so we can see the effects on nurse's pay and benefits.

x_coastie, a more effective response would be to argue with the points made by the physician rather than to discount her views out of hand because you don't care for the political slant of the messenger.

Your desire to have certain states try single-payer is not a good one. If only one state did it then of course you'd have sick people migrating to that state to receive their medical care. It needs to be a national solution using the power of the federal government to regulate. The states simply don't have the power required to make it work.

I disagree. This is something that in my opinion has to be done on the state level. We need a state to set and example of how things CAN work, and on a smaller scale something this big can be managed more effectively (on par with the various western style nations that have a single payer system).

Yes you would have some flock to the state to get medical coverage, but you'd also see a huge shift in businesses to that state. Lets not forget the reason that some republicans are now seeing the light...the pressure put on the major corperations by health care adds on average 1,600 to a cost of a car, for example.

And California would be the perfect state to do such a thing, being the worlds 8th largest economy and a trendsetter in various ways. Likewise this could bring a big boom to various right-to-work southern states to keep unions less desireable. In addition, it would be easier to pull off even getting a single payer system started on a state level.

So coastie was right, just not in the selfish way they intended. It does stand to reason that we as nurses will take a significant cut in pay in a single payer system, just look at any other country with socialized medicine...but hey I didn't get into this profession for the money.

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B]Nurses Association won't bend on health reform[/b]

…"There are 18,000 people dying every year in the United States because they don't have healthcare," he says. "That's six 9/11's a year."

Listening to Graham's story is an uncomfortable experience. The Nurses Association knows that; it's why it brought him to California at a time when legislators and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger are negotiating health insurance reform the nurses believe falls short of an authentic solution.

Alone among interest groups in Sacramento, the Nurses Association opposes any healthcare reform that falls short of blowing up the private insurance-based system and replacing it with a Medicare-style system in which everyone would be insured by the government….

http://www.venturacountystar.com/new...-tennis-shoes/

I wish doctors would feel more comfortable with auxillary healthcare providers like NPs and PHNs giving information such as she wants patients to come to her office to receive.