Guaranteed Healthcare

Most of us agree, single payer is THE ONLY real answer. I submit: for many years SP or even something close to it has gone down to defeat by the insurers and pharma. Paul Wellstone and Hillery's plan etc. A lot of water has gone over the dam. Prices have skyrocketed, the uninsured have appeared and increased into the millions, BUSINESSES have been hit hard AND things have gone from bad to worse. The public has indicated by sizable majorities acceptance of SP -a government program. And healthcare is at crisis proportions and at critical mass.
The previous defeats of the nineties have served to produce an ingrained, negative defeatist attitude as to the prospects for a SP system. Such is not justified! Time has drastically changed the picture and the psychology.
We may without recognizing it be in "the perfect storm" Public acceptance of SP, Congress close to a tipping point because it knows of the polls and how Healthcare is now a major, major issue which won't go away-getting more "major" very, very quickly and now the insurers and pharma, in the public eye have lost enormous credibility, are as popular as cancer or a good heart attack.
The insurers are now even battling each other for market share and customers. They have priced more and more of their customers out of the market. I feel we may have overestimated their strength compared to their past victories. THEY ARE WEAKENED AND VULNERABLE MORE THAN EVER !! We must test this fact. If it's true, we can beat them much easier than we ever dreamed.
This is the time, not for a compromise but to push hard and go all out for the Jugular. In sales, one tries for a "close" ASAP and then goes on for another and another till the sale is made.
With the facts as they are, we must and should go for the close; it's very likely we have victory for the asking and only have to grasp it.
I would try a big telephone and/or petition campaign ( or similar )
to key democrats in the house who haven't co-sponsored HR 676. The republicans aren't ready yet. We do not need an overwhelming majority to win, you know.. Remember, the issue of healthcare is almost as big as curing cancer !
( it's also necessary to get Obama over the finish line--and not have to contend with a veto McCaine will surely present us ) Obama has said if a SP health plan is put on his desk to sign, he would sign it into law.
If we get the dems in the House, we'll get the Senate too ( we're going to get more dems there and even Republicans will see the light, because in two more years, many more in the Senate will be up for election and healthcare will be even a bigger issue then as prices go up and benefits go down even more.
We must test the water now, not resort to a loser's compromise game.
What's to lose-tell me what!!

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