Robert Reich speaks directly on what the ‘public option’ is and why it is so important to health care reform. A no nonsense video, please take 2½ minutes to watch. Share with friends, family & neighbors if you see fit.
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We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
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I so agree with this option on American Health Care, Trust me there is nothing to be scared of at having public health care, I live it here in Canada, and if it were not for the universal health care system we would be broke and living out on the street with all the medical problems both my husband and I have had since he retired.
we do have a family doctor who we can phone or see at anytime at no cost, if we have to see a specialist our family doctor will make the appointment for us and it is not the long waits that your drug companies and other special interest groups would have you believe, and emergency treatment is available immediately all at not costs to us……the only cost we pay for is that our Provincial Govt has put on a surcharge of $900.00 per year, not sure if all the rest of our provinces have a charge or not……and we do pay the first $100.00 per year for our drugs after that all we pay is the dispencing fee usually around 6.00 if the prescription in for 3 months and if it is for less then 3 months then it is cheaper, NO ONE Goes without health care here and if we are short of operation rooms or hospital beds then our govt. will send us to the states and they pay all the costs. Please don’t let people in the States do without health care be cause of the greed of your insurance companies…and oh yes our doctors decide which treatment we need not somone sitting at a desk in an insurance company……I find it so hard to believe that some people lose their homes or may not get any health care for their problems in a Country as wealthy as the USA……..it is just heart less as far as Iam concerned……
Thanks Mary Anne for giving us a Canadian view on the American Health care debate. You nailed when you mentioned all the money that is being thrown around by lobbyists and special interest groups. They are spending millions every single day to tell Americans how bad a public option would be! And sadly many buy into it and believe all the crap they see on TV.