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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (8989)	9/2/2009 6:19:26 PM
From: wlcnyc	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Re: "...President Obama frequently parrots the thoroughly discredited "statistic" that one third of personal bankruptcies are medical bankruptcies. The propagandists of "medical bankruptcy" have now upped the ante with a new study published this week, in which Drs. David Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, and colleagues, report that 62 percent of personal bankruptcies in 2007 were "medical bankruptcies." The authors are leaders of the Physicians for a National Health Program, who have promoted government-monopoly medicine for decades...." What struck me as amusing about the above is that I attended a town hall meeting here (East Village,NYC) last night. That statistic was cited and one of the speakers was representing Physicians for a National Health Program. Another speaker was from Health Care Now. The meeting was actually "billed" as a discussion of a single payer system. Despite knowing that beforehand, I was still quite surprised at the negative comments from the speakers about "Obamacare" in general and H.R. 3200 specifically. Separately, there was a presentation and discussion of the "death panel" that is implied in H.R. 3200 and Ezekiel Emanuel's "cycle of life" priorities. I am sure most of you know that New York City is very liberal - let me just say that the East Village is even more to the left. I live in enemy territory. <G> Once I got over the shock that these people weren't buying Obamacare, I came to the conclusion that maybe what I was witnessing was what I have heard much about. That being that the far left were as much of a problem on the health care issue as the conservatives. It was quite eye opening. The young guy sitting next to me was visiting from the U.K. and found it all quite amusing. Bill