PHIMG Coalition - Grassroot voices demanding Medicare For All!

When Democratic elected officials say Single Payer or Medicare for All isn't politically viable they really mean that the Democratic Party won't be politically viable if they make a serios go at single payer. This is because they will lose all the campaign donations they get from the PROFIT Driven elements of our healthcare system.  It's not a secret that the Democratic party is addicted to cash from the very elements who are destroying our healthcare system - big pharma, big investor-owned hospitals, and the insurance company jackals.

But the cost of all those contributions goes farther then not supporting Single Payer. They had to BURY single payer. No CBO score, no debate, no votes.

Why? If Congress had taken a serious look at Single Payer they would have widely publicized the selling points of single payer, and exposed the beltway consensus plan for the expensive joke it is.

Single Payer:

1. Saves billions in eliminated waste. $180-300 billion a year. That is money that will not need to be raised in new taxes. Single Payer is the most fiscally conservative reform plan there is.

2. Single Payer gives 100% of Americans a Cadillac plan. Not tied to your employer. No deductibles, no copayments, no guessing what is covered or what is not covered, no need to consult a list of providers to see where you can go. No claim denials. No murder by spreadsheet.

Let's contrast that to the consensus plan.

PAY-TO-PLAYer Healthcare Reform:
(aka Mandate and Subsidize)

1. Force every American to buy a defective financial product from big insurance (which are basically Wall Street firms)

2. Add more toothless, hard to enforce regulations for the insurers, increasing complexity and costs.

3. Allow insurers to continue to offer "affordable" Pinto plans that leave you vulnerable to bankruptcy, deny claims, find new ways to screw over small community hospitals, deny care to patients, tie up doctors in red tape, etc.

4. Shovel trillions of tax payer dollar subsidies to the hugely profitable big insurers.

The consensus plan is another bail out for the Financial Sector and it is a SCANDAL that this has been foisted upon the Democratic party by Wall Street and it is a scandal that so many "Good" Democrats just went along with this for the sake of "unity".

So now you see why Baucus had to avoid these comparisons by taking single payer off the table and having the Baucus 8 arrested.

 -- Christopher Blair