Guaranteed Healthcare

My wife and I have wonderful employers and good healthcare insurance and that's why we feel the responsibility to fight for those who don't have those things, so we both took off of work and joined the thousands of other voices for single payer healthcare. We had a wonderful time yesterday going to the protest in San Francisco. There were so many wonderful people at the rally. We can't wait for the next one!

I do not support social health insurance. Our government, our doctors, our hospital industries, our drug industries, our insurance industries, our kleptopoliticians, our media are making a laughing stock of our personal freedoms. Demand No universal health insurance. Demand NO single pay insurance. Demand NO National health insurance. Demand NO mandated social health insurance. Demand NO National health boards. Demand NO social "guaranteed" health insurance. Demand that the rich follow the law. Get rid of our police state. Get Bush and his rich CEOs out of our personal freedoms. Don't we have a enough people made homeless by these governmental policies? Don't we have enough people made sick by our medical industry? Don't we have enough doped up people running our government? Don't we have enough commercials telling you are sick and you NEED drugs? Stand up for your rights!

Rallies, protests etc. Great stuff. Won't accomplish anything against a 2 trillion dollar political/corporate force. But, nurses and other related healthcare staffers have the power to swing this issue ie. pass HR676 or similar to begin the process of totally reforming US healthcare into a single intelligent, efficient, fair system that would cost less to cover all citizens more effectively than the current non-system hodgepodge mess. How? By planning, then staging, sickouts and other work actions at hospitals on a continuous and rotating basis until the powers cave in. Bear in mind nurses are licensed professionals already in shortage. You can't replace them with anyone else. Want results? Get the program going.

Dear fellow human beings

I watched "sicko" with my mum who just had pneumonectomy (lung lobectomy) for cancer. The cancer had not spread yet , By removing part of her lung, our doctors and health system may have hopefully saved her life. Her treatment in Australia was all free! All through our national health care system known as medicare, there for every citizen at a cost, only to tax payers, of approximately between $600 and $1000 AUD per year.

Anyway, after watching "Sicko" by Michael Moore I sent this email to the White-House, your government asking them to clarify my concerns and to make them aware of how their health policy appears from an international perspective.

I pray that your health system will be improved and you all get the health system you need. Your elderly, frail, terminally ill and anyone in need of medical attention should not be suffering at the hands of your government's policies. This is sad and I am deeply concerned as a fellow human being.

God bless you all, let us pray that your government will see sense and introduce a better system.

This is what I sent to the "ask a question" - White House - I have not received a reply yet.

2 June 2008

Dear White House representative & administrationI was
wondering if you would clarify something for me.
Dear Vice President or Administration staff
(Whitehouse)

I live in Australia and recently viewed a documentary
named, " Sicko"- Michael Moore.

It is about your health system in the United States.
I was deeply concerned to see that without adequate
health insurance, your hospitals and medicos turn away
very sick patients or decline certain health treatment, due to
the limitations of their health insurance policy.

From the documentary I noticed, a 3 year child who
suffered high fever, probably Strep throat infection,
suffered a cardiac arrest and died as a result of
being sent away to another hospital. This was
apparently because her Mother's health insurance
policy was not adequate enough to be used in the hospital she attended.

Similarly, September 11 rescuers have also suffered
severe respiratory illnesses and in need of treatment
were turned away. The documentary made a point that
a simple drug, such as ventolin was out of the reach
of these patients because it was around $120 per
script.
I was in tears watching this and disbelief.

Would you mind getting a copy of this documentary and
watch it please, from an international point of view,
its putting a notch in the mark of America.

I did not think that the United States was in this
much crisis and I am now really disappointed as a
foreigner to your country to have been made aware of
the health system crisis.

I am wondering if you would mind clarifying for me, if
this is actually true. And if so, if you would
considered introducing into your country a better
system of health care for your citizens, at least up
to a standard of that meets an international
humanitarian level.

I hope you don't think I am trying to tell you what to
do or anything like that, but it really has upset me
since watching that documentary and I was shocked to
see such a good country as yours, let its citizens
down in this way.

I would love any feed back and clarification on the
truth, so at least I can tell the Australian citizens I
speak to whether or not the documentary just contains lies,
or if in fact it is true.

Here's to the better health of your citizens.

Kind regards

Mandy (a deeply concerned Australian citizen)