On Jul 21, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:
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> http://www.pnhp.org/blog/2009/07/20/bait-and-switch-how-the-%e2%80%9cpublic-option%e2%80%9d-was-sold/
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> [It's interesting how much emphasis in the following is placed on
> cutting payments to providers. That is normally glossed over by
> Single Payer advocates.]
How so? I don't think that the CNA is in favor of cutting payments to nurses. Quite the contrary. For single payer--which entails a huge increase in medical services provided to people who need and cannot now afford them--to work there must be a big increase in the number of doctors and nurses, and that absolutely requires better compensation.
In Congress, of course, where everybody quails (its a membership requirement) before the words "taxes" and "deficit," the Dumbocratic demagogues (Waxman & co.) posing as "single payer" advocates can only mumble and run as quickly as possible to the meaningless "public option."
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
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> Herakleitos of Ephesos