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  When will you support HR 676 and single payer?

  Every other industrialized nation uses a version of single payer, which leads to better health outcomes for everybody, at less cost for ever ...more »

   

  Every other industrialized nation uses a version of single payer, which leads to better health outcomes for everybody, at less cost for everybody. In fact, doing away with the insurance industry's bureaucracy to deny health care would save enough money to cover everybody who isn't covered now!

  Single payer is the best policy; you should support it.

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  Submitted by lambert_strether.corrente 2 years ago

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  Impeachment vs enacting essential legislation

  Madam Speaker - With regard to your rationale for taking impeachment "off the table" - a commitment to important legislation on behalf ...more »

   

  Madam Speaker -

  With regard to your rationale for taking impeachment "off the table" - a commitment to important legislation on behalf of the American people - I have 3 questions:

  1) Which of these [** below] have you "accomplished" SATISFACTORILY on behalf of the American people?

  2) If, as you assert, filibuster [threats] by Republican Senators have stalled these - why then are you NOT now pursuing impeachment?

  3) During your & Sen. Reid's majority tenure (nearly 16 months), how many hours of functional filibuster have Republicans actually engaged in?

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  ** End the Iraq war & hold administration accountable for its failures & war's horrendous costs?

  ** Reverse Bush's failed tax policy - skewed to benefit the wealthiest?

  ** Strengthen the economy; reverse burgeoning budget deficits & trade imbalance?

  ** Effectively address climate change?

  ** Institute a viable long-range energy policy?

  ** Provide health care for ~ 50 million uninsured Americans?

  ** Remedy 37 million American children living in poverty?

  ** Protect constitutional rights; reinstate justice and the rule of law

  (FISA, habeas corpus, torture, corporate criminality, politicization of Justice Dep't, etc.)

  ** Restore balance of powers (Bush's assertions of near-monarchical powers, domestic spying,

  signing statements, refusal of subpoenas, lying to Congress & the American people, conservative activism by Supreme Court, etc)

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  Submitted by jerswing 2 years ago

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  Motivation for Congress to act on universal health insurance and to understand the reality of the health care crisis.

  Will you give up you congressional health care benfits and purchase health insurance in the private market, as over 40 million americans are ...more »

   

  Will you give up you congressional health care benfits and purchase health insurance in the private market, as over 40 million americans are expected to do?

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  Submitted by Weatherbigot 2 years ago

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  Health Care is Killing Americans

  Speaker Pelosi, More Americans are dying daily due to either a complete lack of Health Insurance or having coverage of procedures and drug ...more »

   

  Speaker Pelosi,

  More Americans are dying daily due to either a complete lack of Health Insurance or having coverage of procedures and drugs denied by their "for profit" insurance companies than are dying in the war in Iraq.

  Why then has the Democratic congress not moved forward with a Single Payer Universal Health Care plan for all Americans?

  Also, Will you commit to leading this fight in the next congress and if not please explain why the deaths of thousand of Americans don't matter?

  Finally, should you not be able to push Single Payer Health Care through will you at least require in any compromise bill that any insurer who denies coverage of a physician requested action or prescribed medication is committing a felony resulting in a minimum of 10 years jail time to the CEO/President of the company?

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  Submitted by hedgerml 2 years ago

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  Global Trade

  Madam Speaker, Global trade deals have ruined the fundamentals of the nation's economy by encouraging people to borrow so that they can bu ...more »

   

  Madam Speaker,

  Global trade deals have ruined the fundamentals of the nation's economy by encouraging people to borrow so that they can buy cheap goods from foreign countries. As a result, the U.S. has lost about one quarter of the manufacturing capacity it had at its peak and many people now earn minimum wage at wealth-distributing jobs. To bring wealth-creating jobs back to the U.S. we need a level playing field. Will you personally sponsor legislation in the House to force all companies selling goods here to show that they are:

  (1) Paying workers our domestic minimum wage for creating those goods?

  (2) Producing those goods under the same environmental standards are we have in the U.S.?

  (3) Have and enforce the same workplace standards we have, especially workplace health and safety standards?

  These requirements will need to be implemented over a period of time that allows industry to respond. So, getting this done right away should be a top priority.

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  Submitted by libthink 2 years ago

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  100% Failed Abstinence-Only Programs

  Why does the Democratic Majority refuse to put an end to failed abstinence-only programs that waste tax dollars and redirect those monies to ...more »

   

  Why does the Democratic Majority refuse to put an end to failed abstinence-only programs that waste tax dollars and redirect those monies to proven comprehensive sexuality education?

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  Submitted by amie 2 years ago

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  100% Failed Abstinence-Only Programs

  Why does the Democratic Majority refuse to put an end to failed abstinence-only programs that waste tax dollars and redirect those monies to ...more »

   

  Why does the Democratic Majority refuse to put an end to failed abstinence-only programs that waste tax dollars and redirect those monies to proven comprehensive sexuality education?

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  Submitted by amie 2 years ago

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  Health care/health insurance

  Mrs. Pelosi, what do you pay for your taxpayer subsidized health insurance? Why don't the American people have the exact same health benefit ...more »

   

  Mrs. Pelosi, what do you pay for your taxpayer subsidized health insurance? Why don't the American people have the exact same health benefits and pay the same amount that you and your Congressional colleagues enjoy?

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  Submitted by nyceve 2 years ago

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  Health care/health insurance

  Mrs. Pelosi, what do you pay for your taxpayer subsidized health insurance? Why don't the American people have the exact same health benefit ...more »

   

  Mrs. Pelosi, what do you pay for your taxpayer subsidized health insurance? Why don't the American people have the exact same health benefits and pay the same amount that you and your Congressional colleagues enjoy?

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  Submitted by nyceve 2 years ago

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  Role of Health Insurance Companies

  What positive role do private health insurance companies provide in the U.S.? The U.S. spends almost twice as much money as other countries ...more »

   

  What positive role do private health insurance companies provide in the U.S.? The U.S. spends almost twice as much money as other countries on health care and still has 47 million Americans uninsured, so they are apparently not saving us money. And if we believe that every American should have health insurance, wouldn't government provided single-payer health insurance provide the same benefits without the profit costs, administrative costs, and incentives to deny care inherent in coverage from private corporations?

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  Submitted by aprichard 2 years ago

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  Will you actively support & bring forward John Conyers HR-676 The United States National Health Insurance Act

  Representative John Conyers is the lead sponsor for the only real universal health plan that provides coverage that is truly universal, comp ...more »

   

  Representative John Conyers is the lead sponsor for the only real universal health plan that provides coverage that is truly universal, comprhensive, affordable to inidviduals and families and controls overall costs.

  http://www.house.gov/conyers/news_hr676.shtml

  That plan also has more co-sponsors then any other plan in the House.

  http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR00676:@@@P

  Please make sure that it is an active part of the discussion as we move forward to real health care reform.

  There are many proposals for “reform” of the U.S. health care system out there. For the newcomer it can be very confusing. Here are the four simple questions to ask of any health care proposal.

  1. Is it Universal? Does it cover all people? This would seem to be pretty basic, insofar as all other developed countries do it. But just being, or claiming to have, universal coverage is not enough. It is a common error to claim universality and then let it go at that. When thinking about a so-called health care reform proposal you must also explore how the proposal deals with items 2, 3 & 4:

  2. Is it Comprehensive? Does it cover all needed conditions, prevention, treatment? What care is included under the proposal? What care is not covered?

  3. How much is it going to Cost Individuals? Is it affordable year-in and year-out. How much does it cost you and your family if you are not sick? Can you afford to get sick. What is the total cost of the system to you and your family including taxes, premiums, deductibles, copays, uncovered conditions/expenses, coverage refusals. What is your total out of pocket costs? If you get sick are you going to go bankrupt?

  4. How much is it going to Cost Overall? What is the cost to the system, to the country, for example as a percent of GNP? How does it control costs. How is it paid for, and who is paying, all the pieces, direct and indirect?

  Too many folks fall for the trap of hearing “reform” or even “universal” and don’t realize that it is not really Universal Coverage, IF that Coverage is really “coverage” because it leaves you with too much legitimate care not actually covered, leaves you and your family with bankruptingly high out of pocket expenses when somebody

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  Submitted by dr.steveb 2 years ago

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  Will you actively support & bring forward John Conyers HR-676 The United States National Health Insurance Act

  Representative John Conyers is the lead sponsor for the only real universal health plan that provides coverage that is truly universal, comp ...more »

   

  Representative John Conyers is the lead sponsor for the only real universal health plan that provides coverage that is truly universal, comprhensive, affordable to inidviduals and families and controls overall costs.

  http://www.house.gov/conyers/news_hr676.shtml

  That plan also has more co-sponsors then any other plan in the House.

  http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR00676:@@@P

  Please make sure that it is an active part of the discussion as we move forward to real health care reform.

  There are many proposals for “reform” of the U.S. health care system out there. For the newcomer it can be very confusing. Here are the four simple questions to ask of any health care proposal.

  1. Is it Universal? Does it cover all people? This would seem to be pretty basic, insofar as all other developed countries do it. But just being, or claiming to have, universal coverage is not enough. It is a common error to claim universality and then let it go at that. When thinking about a so-called health care reform proposal you must also explore how the proposal deals with items 2, 3 & 4:

  2. Is it Comprehensive? Does it cover all needed conditions, prevention, treatment? What care is included under the proposal? What care is not covered?

  3. How much is it going to Cost Individuals? Is it affordable year-in and year-out. How much does it cost you and your family if you are not sick? Can you afford to get sick. What is the total cost of the system to you and your family including taxes, premiums, deductibles, copays, uncovered conditions/expenses, coverage refusals. What is your total out of pocket costs? If you get sick are you going to go bankrupt?

  4. How much is it going to Cost Overall? What is the cost to the system, to the country, for example as a percent of GNP? How does it control costs. How is it paid for, and who is paying, all the pieces, direct and indirect?

  Too many folks fall for the trap of hearing “reform” or even “universal” and don’t realize that it is not really Universal Coverage, IF that Coverage is really “coverage” because it leaves you with too much legitimate care not actually covered, leaves you and your family with bankruptingly high out of pocket expenses when somebody

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  Submitted by dr.steveb 2 years ago

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  Will you actively support & bring forward John Conyers HR-676 The United States National Health Insurance Act

  Representative John Conyers is the lead sponsor for the only real universal health plan that provides coverage that is truly universal, comp ...more »

   

  Representative John Conyers is the lead sponsor for the only real universal health plan that provides coverage that is truly universal, comprhensive, affordable to inidviduals and families and controls overall costs.

  http://www.house.gov/conyers/news_hr676.shtml

  That plan also has more co-sponsors then any other plan in the House.

  http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR00676:@@@P

  Please make sure that it is an active part of the discussion as we move forward to real health care reform.

  There are many proposals for “reform” of the U.S. health care system out there. For the newcomer it can be very confusing. Here are the four simple questions to ask of any health care proposal.

  1. Is it Universal? Does it cover all people? This would seem to be pretty basic, insofar as all other developed countries do it. But just being, or claiming to have, universal coverage is not enough. It is a common error to claim universality and then let it go at that. When thinking about a so-called health care reform proposal you must also explore how the proposal deals with items 2, 3 & 4:

  2. Is it Comprehensive? Does it cover all needed conditions, prevention, treatment? What care is included under the proposal? What care is not covered?

  3. How much is it going to Cost Individuals? Is it affordable year-in and year-out. How much does it cost you and your family if you are not sick? Can you afford to get sick. What is the total cost of the system to you and your family including taxes, premiums, deductibles, copays, uncovered conditions/expenses, coverage refusals. What is your total out of pocket costs? If you get sick are you going to go bankrupt?

  4. How much is it going to Cost Overall? What is the cost to the system, to the country, for example as a percent of GNP? How does it control costs. How is it paid for, and who is paying, all the pieces, direct and indirect?

  Too many folks fall for the trap of hearing “reform” or even “universal” and don’t realize that it is not really Universal Coverage, IF that Coverage is really “coverage” because it leaves you with too much legitimate care not actually covered, leaves you and your family with bankruptingly high out of pocket expenses when somebody

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  Submitted by dr.steveb 2 years ago

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  When is Single Payer Health Care Going to be Given Serious Consideration?

  If private insurance is given a place in universal health care, a lot of money will go to their profits, overhead, waste, etc. We already ...more »

   

  If private insurance is given a place in universal health care, a lot of money will go to their profits, overhead, waste, etc. We already have the most expensive health care system in the world. If we cut out the health insurance companies, the savings can be used to take care of sick people. It works better. Medicare is a success with low overhead and is cheaper than Medicare

  Advantage, the private insurance scam that was forced on us by the Republicans.

  Please comment on why Single Payer gets no serious consideration in Congress.

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  Submitted by ammasdarling 2 years ago

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  Do you consider health care a basic human right?

  On a related note, should insurance executives be held criminaly liable for implementing policies which result in thousands of preventable d ...more »

   

  On a related note, should insurance executives be held criminaly liable for implementing policies which result in thousands of preventable deaths every year?

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  Submitted by vlvtelvis 2 years ago

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  True Health Care

   

  When will congress begin addressing the fact that Americans need more "health care," not more ways to pay for "sick care".

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  Submitted by dondurbindc 2 years ago

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  Will Congress pass universal health care?

  There has been a lot of discussion about universal health care in the Democratic primary, but little word from those in Congress regarding t ...more »

   

  There has been a lot of discussion about universal health care in the Democratic primary, but little word from those in Congress regarding the future of such legislation. Do you think Congress will be able to pass universal health care with a Democratic President in the White House, and how long will it take to make that happen?

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