"I am sorry sir, you don't know me. I am not a consensus leader. And I do not determine what is right and wrong by looking at the budget of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference or by taking a Gallup poll of the majority opinion. Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
 
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  
Comparing Single-Payer with the Public Option
 

There has been considerable confusion about the differences between single-payer healthcare, which Healthcare-NOW! supports, and the healthcare reform options, including President Obama's "public option," being introduced by the House and Senate.
 

So we've collected the following resources to clarify the difference:
 
Report Card for Single-Payer and "Public Option" (.pdf)
More of the Same Is Not Health Care Reform, It's a Placebo
- by  Leonard Rodberg, PhD
 
Single-Payer Teach-In
Dr. Len Rodberg, of Physicians for a National Health Program, made a great presentation on single-payer and the "public option" at a teach-in in New York City.
Download Len Rodberg's slide show (.ppt). 
 
The National Health Insurance Bill (HR 676)

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Obama's Family Physician Dr. David Scheiner Prescribes Single-Payer for America

VIDEO: Obama On Single Payer Healthcare Program

      
In this Clinton campaign video, Barack Obama's words from 2003 are used against him. The video seems to point out a different position in 2003 than today on single payer healthcare system.

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VIDEO: Dennis Kucinich Sets Dr. David Gratzer Straight
 


 
 
National Faith Community Call to Action with Special Guest President Barack Obama


You're invited! 5PM EDT Wednesday, August 19th, the faith community is hosting a national call in and audio webcast on health care reform and President Barack Obama has accepted the faith community's invitation to join the call. Click here to RSVP and get information about listening in.
 

 
 
 
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Is the Obama Health Care Plan Really Better Than Nothing?

 
By Bruce A. Dixon
BlackAgendaReport.com
 
The health care debate inside and outside the matrix
 
Like just about everything else, your take on the national health care debate depends on whether you're inside or outside the matrix.
 
Within the bubble of fake reality blown by corporate media and bipartisan political establishment, the health care news is that the Obama Plan is at last making its way through Congress. It's being fought by greedy private insurance companies, by chambers of commerce, by Republican and some Democratic lawmakers.
Under the Obama plan, we're told, employers will have to insure their employees or pay into a fund that does it for them. Individuals will be required under penalty of law to buy private insurance policies and for those that can't afford it or prefer not to use a private insurer there will be something called a "public option." This "public option, the story goes, is bitterly fought by the bad guys because it will make private insurers accountable by competing with them, forcing them to lower their costs. Both the president's backers and opponents agree that the whole thing will be fantastically expensive, and the president proposes to fund it with cuts in existing programs like Medicaid which pay for the care of the poorest Americans and a tax on those making more than $300,000, later raised to $1 million a year.

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Single-Payer National Health Insurance
 
Single-payer national health insurance is a system in which a single public or quasi-public agency organizes health financing, but delivery of care remains largely private.

Currently, the U.S. health care system is outrageously expensive, yet inadequate. Despite spending more than twice as much as the rest of the industrialized nations ($7,129 per capita), the United States performs poorly in comparison on major health indicators such as life expectancy, infant mortality and immunization rates. Moreover, the other advanced nations provide comprehensive coverage to their entire populations, while the U.S. leaves 45.7 million completely uninsured and millions more inadequately covered.
 

 
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