U.S. Conference of Mayors Backs Single-Payer National Health Insurance

[herring_RN, ASN, BSN]

u.s. conference of mayors backs single-payer national health insurance

http://www.usmayors.org/usmayornewspaper/documents/06_16_08/pg7_res_chhs.asp

http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/june/us_conference_of_m.php

[mdfog10]

Excellent and absolutely fabulous!!:yeah:

[RN4MERCY]

I received this commentary from Dr. Don McCanne, Senior Healh Policy Fellow/ Physicians for a National Health Plan:

http://www.pnhp.org/news/quote_of_the_day.php

"The next politician who tells you that national health insurance is not politically feasible, tell him or her to discuss that opinion with the nation's mayors. For those who say that all politics is local, national health insurance is the only reform that is politically feasible."

This is really great news for healthcare activists and nurses and patients. Our politicians are paying attention. Let's keep up the good work, and do the right thing for our patients and our country!

Interesting info about the U.S. Conference of Mayors:

http://www.usmayors.org/about/overview.asp

The U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) is the official nonpartisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are 1,139 such cities in the country today. Each city is represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the mayor.

During the Conference's Annual Meeting in June, standing committees recommend policy positions they believe should be adopted by the organization. At this time, every member attending the annual meeting is given the opportunity to discuss and then vote on each policy resolution. Each city, represented by its mayor, casts one vote.

The policy positions adopted at the annual meeting collectively represent the views of the nation's mayors and are distributed to the President of the United States and Congress.

[HM2VikingRN, RN]

If opponents really knew how much they are payng for ineffecive and more expensive care there would be single payer tomorrow.

[herring_RN, ASN, BSN]

Single payer for sick system

BY PATRICIA EAKIN AND MALINDA MARKOWITZ

http://thetimes-tribune.com/articles/2008/08/25/editorial/guest_columnists/sc_times_trib.20080825.a.pg13.tt25eakin_s1.1897232_gue.txt

[CRNA2007]

If you had to actually pay the bill for it there would never be any discussion of Socialized Medicine.

If opponents really knew how much they are payng for ineffecive and more expensive care there would be single payer tomorrow.

[herring_RN, ASN, BSN]

dr. quentin young -

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/12/15/965/02862/21/673235

[Mindful, RN]

dr. quentin young -

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/12/15/965/02862/21/673235

nation's rn union responds to daschle appointment

http://pdamerica.org/articles/alliances/2008-12-12-09-55-05-alliances.php :yeah:

[Koyaanisqatsi-RN]

If you had to actually pay the bill for it there would never be any discussion of Socialized Medicine.

Any sources or evidence to substantiate this claim? Anything?

[Chico David, BSN, RN]

If you had to actually pay the bill for it there would never be any discussion of Socialized Medicine.

One always gets these bald assertions from the opponents of real health care, just ignoring the fact that all other developed countries have some form of national healthcare, all of them get results comparable to ours or a bit better, and all of them do it for significantly less money than we do. Those are facts and any real attempt to improve health care should start from recognizing those facts.