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Dear colleagues,
Very few Americans know that the US healthcare system is mostly publicly funded, meaning, paid for by our tax dollar contributions - 64% ! Only 5 % of US insured population do not receive government subsidy either directly or indirectly through a tax benefit. Decades of incremental health reforms with mandated tax subsidized coverage for the uninsured and special population groups, are in reality, subsidies for the insurance companies, siphoning off dollars for direct care, ensuring profits for share holders, enormous CEO salaries, and bureaucratic administrative boondoggles. Even though the profiteers on Wall Street have been bailed out, we can still stop the chronic bailout of the for-profit insurance industry in our healthcare system. It is time to demand bailout of the ordinary American’s healthcare - time for single payer federal government intervention.
We need each one of you to do whatever you can to educate the public about how much each of us, including the unisnsured, are already contributing large sums of our tax dollars indirectly to the insurance industry for healthcare. Once all of us understand the current funding of US health care system, and how little care we get in return, even skeptics would see that of all reform proposals, the single payer system - embodied in HR676 - is the only true universal system - accessible, affordable, quality health care for all, for life.
VERY HELPFUL article at this link: http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2008/0508harrison.html
“Paying More, Getting Less - How much is the sick U.S. health care system costing you?” by Joel A. Harrison
May/June 2008 issue of Dollars & Sense: The Magazine of Economic Justice
Let us all get acquainted and discuss a plan of actionat this annual meeting.
See you on the 30th,
Cosy
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GRANITE STATE PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM ANNUAL MEETING
Annual meeting: GS-PNHP/NHMS Single Payer Interest Group (GS-PNHP / NHMS-SPIG)
Thursday, October 30, 2008
6:00 to 8:00 PM - ANNUAL MEETING, open to all interested parties
At the New Hampshire Medical Society conference room; 7 N. State Street, Concord NH
Who should attend:
Physicians, health care professionals, anyone concerned about our current healthcare system. All invited!
Brief agenda:
This is our annual meeting and a call for GS-PNHP members to attend. We want you included in the election of officers to fill important functions - especially following the national election. This is a call for action - we need you all!
Guest speaker:
William Marvel, author and historian, called an “independent scholar” by his colleagues, his June 2006 Concord Monitor op-ed, still available on the PNHP national website, at www.pnhp.org, was a humorous chronicle of his family’s health insurance experiences, and a financial analysis of the US healthcare system. Two years later, a serious article with almost the same title, about how much we pay for so little healthcare, appeared in the May/June 2008 Issue of the prestigious Dollars and Sense: The Magazine of Economic Justice. He is a weekly columnist for the Conway Daily Sun, writing articles with wit and humor. He is published in other papers, as well. On a more serious note, he specializes in American history with primary emphasis on the Civil War.
Please circulate !
Light dinner will be provided. For information contact: Marcosa J. Santiago, M.D.
(603) 786-2700 or cosy@diacad.com
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