Within the next few days, the House will vote on the most comprehensive health care legislation in our history. Our bill will provide affordability to the middle class, security to our seniors, and responsibility to our children by not adding a dime to the deficit. While our bill contains unprecedented reforms, including an end to discrimination for pre-existing conditions and a prohibition on raising rates or dropping coverage if you become ill, our bill cannot include provisions some strongly advocated. The single payer alternative is one of those provisions that could not be included in H.R. 3962, but which has generated support within the Congress and throughout the country.
Congressman Anthony Weiner has been a forceful and articulate advocate for the single payer approach and our legislation. His decision not to offer a single payer amendment during consideration of H.R. 3962 is a correct one, and helps advance the passage of important health reforms by this Congress. While single payer, like other popular proposals, is not included in the consensus bill we will vote on this week, Congressman Weiner has been a tireless and effective advocate for progress on health care, and his work has been a vital part of achieving health care reform.
Released by the Speaker of the House on 11/06/2009
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with one of every 10 citizens without work and millions of non-citizens impoverished, the Democratic Party has accepted the Republican plan to maintain a profitable healthcare industry at the expense of U.S. working people and the poor. Healthcare will not be "affordable" for many, but it will be profitable for the few who want to continue to make money off of the sick. Protecting against pre-existing conditions of illness will not help those with the pre-existing condition of no healthcare and no chance to get it. The only "affordable" healthcare is a nationalized healthcare system based on wealth generated by millions of working people and their labor.
This ersatz healthcare bill will prove to be a betrayal and it will be changed not by lesser-evil politicians but by the organized mass movement of people who have had enough of the "wolves in sheep's clothing" that are the Democrats or the wolves with no camouflage that are the Republicans.
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