{"id":4525,"date":"2017-03-29T21:11:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T04:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=4525"},"modified":"2017-03-29T21:13:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T04:13:12","slug":"ralph-nader-nancy-pelosi-single-payer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/03\/29\/ralph-nader-nancy-pelosi-single-payer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Nader, Nancy Pelosi and Single Payer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters at the Capitol in Washington. \u00a0She is the top Democrat in the Republican-controlled House. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite) ORG XMIT: DCSA127<\/p><\/div>\n

January 19, 2017<\/p>\n

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says she\u2019s for a single payer Medicare for All, everybody in, nobody out health care system.<\/p>\n

But she refuses to co-sponsor single payer legislation in the House (HR 676) or to organize to build support for it.<\/p>\n

Ralph Nader has now written a letter to Pelosi calling her out.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI see you were quoted in The Hill newspaper<\/a> recently saying that you are for single payer health insurance,\u201d Nader wrote to Pelosi. \u201cYou had this preference before Presidents Clinton and Obama, who ideally agree with you, dismissed single payer as \u2018impractical\u2019 given the entrenched and powerful healthcare industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA couple of years ago, I wrote an article titled 21 Ways Canada\u2019s Single Payer System Beats Obamacare.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWithin a week or so, your colleague, Congressman John Conyers (D-Michigan), will re-introduce HR 676, the single payer bill in the House.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWill you actively support this much more efficient and comprehensive legislation, with its many advantages proven in other countries, and persuade other House Democrats to also co-sponsor?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, only 63 Democrats co-sponsored.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cObamacare, without a public option, has been a complex patchwork in so many ways \u2014 \u00a0including forcing individuals to purchase inadequate insurance from private health insurance companies \u2014 \u00a0insurance that carries with it high premiums, deductibles, co-pays and forces narrow networks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor many, Obamacare is quasi-catastrophic insurance with limited choice of doctor and hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the Republicans repeal Obamacare, Democrats need to be ready and offer to replace it with something that can attract left\/right support \u2014 single payer, Medicare for All \u2014 everyone in, nobody out, free choice of doctor and hospital, no medical bankruptcies, no coercive co-pays or deductibles, with all their accompanying fears and anxieties, and no more deaths due to lack of health insurance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA December 2015 national Kaiser public opinion poll found that 58 percent of adults in the U. S. supported single payer (Medicare for All), including 81 percent of Democrats, 60 percent of Independents, and 30 percent of Republicans. Imagine the poll numbers when Full Medicare for All starts to be explained, in its clear simplicity, and promoted by a major political party.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s work together to present the American people something both more efficient and responsive that they want and need \u2014 Medicare for All and freedom to choose their doctor, clinic and hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n

(singlepayeraction.org)<\/p>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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