http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/06/political-diagnosis-single-payer-advocates-get-hearing Daily dose of women's health news and media analysis Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/06/political-diagnosis-single-payer-advocates-get-hearing/comment-page-1#comment-2443 Christine C. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:09:24 +0000 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/?p=7317#comment-2443 I've heard that from other people, too. With Obama himself acknowledging SP would be the way to go if we were building the system from scratch, it's surprising there wasn't at least some public discussion earlier on. Maybe if they gave it more time -- a year to build the movement -- it would have a legitimate chance. It'll be interesting to see what happens if there isn't an agreement this year -- or if it's so watered down that we end up right back where we started two/four/six years from now. I’ve heard that from other people, too. With Obama himself acknowledging SP would be the way to go if we were building the system from scratch, it’s surprising there wasn’t at least some public discussion earlier on. Maybe if they gave it more time — a year to build the movement — it would have a legitimate chance. It’ll be interesting to see what happens if there isn’t an agreement this year — or if it’s so watered down that we end up right back where we started two/four/six years from now.

]]> http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/06/political-diagnosis-single-payer-advocates-get-hearing/comment-page-1#comment-2441 MomTFH Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:31:46 +0000 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/?p=7317#comment-2441 When I participated in on of the <a href="http://momstinfoilhat.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/health-care-community-discussion/" rel="nofollow">grassroots health policy groups</a> the Obama administration asked us to do, we all said we wanted single payer insurance. And, there was a physician, several nurse midwives and direct entry midwives there. From what I read of the other groups who met and wrote up their input, they almost all suggested a single payer system, too. When I participated in on of the grassroots health policy groups the Obama administration asked us to do, we all said we wanted single payer insurance. And, there was a physician, several nurse midwives and direct entry midwives there. From what I read of the other groups who met and wrote up their input, they almost all suggested a single payer system, too.

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