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Health Care Reform we need to start from scratch

Study: Over 2,200 US Veterans Died in 2008 Due to Lack of Health Insurance.

If that isn’t sad enough. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now does an excellent interview with Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, professor of medicine at Harvard University and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program.

Really frustrating facts about the health care reform bill:

  • 500 Billion hand over to the Insurance Companies
  • Public option will not be cheaper and mainly there to take the worst cases off the private insurers
  • We tried this model already 10 years ago in Massachusetts. Premiums didn’t go down.
  • Basis of the Senate bill is a document authored by Elizabeth Fowler, who’s a former vice president of Wellpoint, the nation’s largest private insurance company
  • Insurers and Pharma happy with the bill

She suggests to start from scratch and I agree.

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