Senator Ken Salazar begins shift on healthcare
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Salazar talks rural health care in Valley
ALAMOSA — “I’ll be the first to admit I have a lot more to learn,” said U.S. Senator Ken Salazar about health care in Creede yesterday. He discussed health care with a vocal community at the Creede Ambulance Barn, one of 32 stops he will make statewide to thrash out the issue.
This is a good sign. This is how politicians talk when they are preparing to shift positions.
Family physician and candidate for State Representative District 62 Rocky White shared his views with Salazar. “Remember there is a big difference between health insurance and health coverage,” said White. He is a supporter of the single-payer system and said that if health care is going to change the profiteer must be taken out of it.
Salazar said a two-tier system is one option, offering a single-payer program and private health care alternatives. He compared it to the current education system offering families free, public education or the choice to pay to send their kids to private schools.
Clearly a two tiered system is a fall back position. That way lies a Jim Crow health care system. The public system will be like Medicaid, under funded and grossly inadequate. We must continue to press for a single payer system. Fortunately Colorado has an active single payer movement.
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*faints*
No. You must be kidding.
Salazar actually taking a leftist viewpoint on an important issue instead of siding with Bush? Maybe I'm not reading this right.... or maybe his brother actually told him how people are hurting when they came by to talk about UHC last month....
even our brain dead pols and their sycophants can't
avoid hearing the horror stories from their constituents about various deadly an mortal and tortuous adventures in "health care" in this country.
the thing about watching your grandma die after selling off everything she ever owned and worked for and was reduced to a series of increasingly scummy living arrangements while being cared for cretinous underpaid people who'd just as soon abuse her as wash her while being denied coverage for procedures she desperately needs because the medicaid rules only mandate so many days of coverage by doctors who are resentful and stressed because they lose money in treating her at gov't rates and have decided they'd rather work in dermatology because that's where to money is...you sort of don't forget that kind of shit. it leaves on, well, a tad bitter. and minded to share that with your representatives, after you realize that there is no reason that had to happen at all, knowing that billions a day are going for the welfare of mercenary contractors in iraq.
A lot of money was extracted from your grandma's...
... dying body, so what's not to like?
After all, she was a human resource, right?
I would argue that this view of human beings is absolutely as pernicious, nay, evil, as slavery. Yet it is all around us, free as the air.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.