Barack Obama on Thursday used Pittsburgh as his stage to ask Americans for a mandate to implement a national health care plan if he's elected president. If we can't control skyrocketing health care costs, we'll confront a mounting moral crisis and a major anchor on the ability of American business to compete," said Obama, who invited 13 prominent panelists from labor, industry and academia to participate in an economic summit at Carnegie Mellon University.
WASHINGTON - After months of being pummeled by Republican attacks on the new health-care law, the Obama administration and its allies are striking back with a wide-ranging campaign to stem public disaffection with the health overhaul ahead of the November elections. In coming days, the law's backers plan to kick off a nationwide, multimillion-dollar ad offensive being organized in consultation with the White House and with funding from wealthy individual donors and groups sympathetic to the administration's health agenda.
THE RECENT convention speech by Ron Gettelfinger, president of the United Auto Workers, is worth noting. He stated "a lack of action on a single-payer national health-care plan by the Bush administration has hurt the domestic auto industry." In fact, he should have said the unionized auto industry has been crippled. Ford, which has just announced more plans to shutter domestic plants and open a new plant in Mexico for subcompact vehicles, spent $3.5 billion to cover 550,000 employees last year. This cost, which amounts to thousands of dollars per vehicle, is significantly less in other countries, such as Canada, that have adopted single-payer national health care.
This government continues to perpetually lie and fabricate its own dillusional ideology, supporting a health-care system that is corrupt, greedy and devalues the lives of its citizens. Immediate nationwide health-care reform is paramount for our country. We must establish an efficient, cost-free, professional- quality medical program, along with prescription providers who will not violate federal mandates, and/or gouge its clients!
When Dr. David Gill first ran against U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson in 2004, a key issue in his platform was the need for a single-payer, national health care plan. Six years later, that is still a major theme in his campaign - not surprising for an emergency room doctor with firsthand experience on how our country's health care system works and doesn't work.
One more time. We already are spending enough money for everyone in America to have comprehensive health care without having to scout out their own health insurance, pay at point of service or go bankrupt. Last week, the economists and actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid estimated that our nation's overall health care expenditures this year will be $2.51 trillion, an increase of 3.9 percent from 2008. That is just a few dollars more than $8,000 for every man, woman and child.
According to the Federal Reserve, economic activity during June and July remained weak. Cheers to Congressman Mc Henry Rep. Patrick McHenry (R.-N.C.) deserves conservative cheers for taking on President Obama's claims that nobody will lose their health insurance if the federal government establishes a national health care plan run by bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. McHenry and Sen. Jim DeMint (R.S. C.) have been under fire from the left to dare to challenge the President's signature initiative - health care reform.
As for a national health care plan, I'd want an expanded Medicare with a buy-in for anyone under the age of 65, who wants an affordable, no deductible, low co-pay plan that covers regular check ups as well as catastrophic illnesses and injuries. The system is built and there would be a large enough pool of people buying in that it would solve the insolvency of Medicare and could be made stronger after Congress fixes the disastrous "reforms" legislators put into place a couple of years ago. It would also force corporate insurers to compete with their own affordable expanded medical care plans.
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