It's the injustice, stupid. Current health care cost per person: $7000/12months = $583 p/mo Single Payer cost per person: $4000/12months = $333 p/mo ***12/22/09*** To the Members of the U.S. Senate: It is with great sadness that we urge you to vote against the health care reform legislation now before you. As physicians, we are acutely aware of the unnecessary suffering that our nation's broken health care financing system inflicts on our patients. We make no common cause with the Republicans' obstructionist tactics or alarmist rhetoric. However, we have concluded that the Senate bill's passage would bring more harm than good. We are fully cognizant of the salutary provisions included in the legislation, notably an expansion of Medicaid coverage, increased funds for community clinics and regulations to curtail some of private insurers' most egregious practices. Yet these are outweighed by its central provisions - particularly the individual mandate - that would reinforce private insurers' stranglehold on care. Those who dislike their current employer-sponsored coverage would be forced to keep it. Those without insurance would be forced to pay private insurers' inflated premiums, often for coverage so skimpy that serious illness would bankrupt them. And the $476 billion in new public funds for premium subsidies would all go to insurance firms, buttressing their financial and political power, and rendering future reform all the more difficult. Some paint the Senate bill as a flawed first step to reform that will be improved over time, citing historical examples such as Social Security. But where Social Security established the nidus of a public institution that grew over time, the Senate bill proscribes any such new public institution. Instead, it channels vast new resources - including funds diverted from Medicare - into the very private insurers who caused today's health care crisis. Social Security's first step was not a mandate that payroll taxes which fund pensions be turned over to Goldman Sachs! While the fortification of private insurers is the most malignant aspect of the bill, several other provisions threaten harm to vulnerable patients, including: The bill's anti-abortion provisions would restrict reproductive choice, compromising the health of women and adolescent girls. ...The bill would drain $43 billion from Medicare payments to safety-net hospitals, threatening the care of the 23 million who will remain uninsured even if the bill works as planned. These threatened hospitals are also a key resource for emergency care, mental health care and other services that are unprofitable for hospitals under current payment regimes. In many communities, severely ill patients will be left with no place to go - a human ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmKE3qaUGdo

"I'm reading some headlines from newspapers about Pete Buttigieg..." In a speech at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, Sen. Bernie Sanders slammed former South Bend, IN Mayor Pete Buttigieg's support among billionaires. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vryPWfeyjw

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Frontline workers and first responders stood in silence to protest the province's vaccine passport in Quebec City on Oct. 15, 2021.