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The Politico may have been bored

By Faiz Shakir on Mar 26th, 2007 at 7:53 pm

The Politico may have been bored

by the health care forum, but some important news was made this past weekend. SEIU President Andrew Stern and Center for American Progress CEO John Podesta break down the key messages and the new ideas that emerged from the event. Watch it:

[flv http://video.thinkprogress.org/2007/03/podestastern.320.240.flv]

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Redvine says:

OK, I really want to hear people talking about single payer health insurance. To me, a self centered liberal who has health insurance, the self centered part is more interested in single payer than universal health coverage, because I know I will reap tremendous benefits from single payer and the benefits I personally will enjoy from universal coverage, while important, are smaller. As a liberal, I’m all over the idea of universal coverage, but I feel this message is less popular, less mainstream, and therefore less important for me in deciding who to vote for in the primary.

If my litmus test last election cycle was how soon a candidate promised to get us out of Iraq, I think next election cycle the most fundamental test will be who is for SINGLE PAYER insurance.
March 26th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Redvine says:

I’m afraid my previous post may have gotten eaten by the tubes of the internet, so…

Again, I don’t care about universal coverage so much as single payer insurance. The benefits of universal coverage are real, but the benefits of single payer are so huge. For me, right now, a candidate’s position on single payer is almost a litmus test. I feel like I have almost become a single issue voter. I will vote for the candidate who promises to fight for single payer.
March 26th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Raymond Funamoto says:

THANK YOU, Mr. Podesta and Stern for giving us the GIST of this IMPORTANT MESSAGE!!!!!
March 26th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Jimbo says:

I don’t think anyone realizes how corrupt the healthcare in this country really is. See back in the 1800’s health care had a wide deversifaction
and many different practices. Rockefeller funded the medical schools,
lawmakers passed laws literally monopolying health care. with that said
and done, literally for where there would have been little money, they
prefabricated a huge profitable health care, the way we know it as of today, disease management…. they literally made a economy, a huge and
highly profitable economy on health care. Unfortunately, this involves a
totally corrupt fda and mega pharma’s.

The sun provides the energy to the plants and from the ground we are
completely in harmony in that state, in fact without plants, we would not
exists. however totally corrupt companies have short circuited the process
producing food from what is no longer alive; support life or greatly modify
it. health can only be built by healthy food NOT soil earthworms and in fact
the soils ecology system, technically it’[s dead or so called worn out, literally
everyone eats food that doesn’t support health very well.. and guess what.

the healthcare in this country is SO corrupted, the truth will NEVER come
out… just another opportunity for the parasites/leeches to infest/infect
yet another sectors with billions made, scandals, lobbyists and all the
rest of the corruption

Do you know that since the 1800’s for the most part possibly people might
live longer, suffering for years, diabetes/cancer was relatively rare… people
lived much closer to nature and we are literally living in a toxic state, foods
that literally promote disease = health care economy. Medical’s great for
a by chance or a accident or a short term acute… but no, not long term,

IT’S SO CORRUPT IT’S ENOUGH TO PUKE…. literal maggots, parasistes, and leeches, ceo’s, lobbyists, back room deals, and most important rub me and
i’ll rub you and the almighty dollar for my next yacht
March 27th, 2007 at 12:46 am
troll alert says:

What’s with all the ::crickets:: on this thread?
March 27th, 2007 at 2:51 am
Jay Randal says:

Nobody is interested in this thread topic apparently.
March 27th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Diane says:

I’m interested. I’m grateful to Think Progress for this forum. The more we get it out there, the more educated people become between the terms “universal healthcare” and “single payer healthcare” and the emphasis on prevention rather than treatment. And it’s all tied into pushing back on globalization. We must begin to “Think Local” again. Buy Local and Think Local. Do you really need that Danish cookie?
March 27th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Russell says:

As someone who’s chronic illness keeps me locked in a constant battle with a medical insurance industry bent on denying me care, I’d like to give you my wholehearted thanks for tackling this “boring” issue.

Once you are ill, our system breaks down completely. When you loose your job, and you have diabetes or other chronic illness, you can’t get insurance, you can’t afford medicine, your worsening condition makes it harder to get another job… And even when employed, the costs have been rising so fast, and coverage drops so fast, that I know spend twice as much for coverage as I did three years ago, and four times more in prescription drug co-pays.

But it’s not a sexy topic, and since Clinton it seems it’s been political poison to even mention. So thanks for making an effort to bring this up again in the political arena.
March 27th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Jake says:

I guess not just the Politico was bored — too bad Podesta won’t answer relevant questions about U.S. Attorneys ; )
March 28th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Mark says:

Mark

I love your site. They really look very nice. The articles provided are long enough to provide great content but not so long as to be totally engrossing, if you know what I mean.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:39 am

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