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Sign Up Page: expanded scope. The scope of the Sign Up web page is now to not only sign up for the Million Letters for Health Care Campaign, but also for the following:
-- to give us a little more information that we need to have a strong single-payer movement
-- to give you a selection of what level of participation --- if any (beyond the Million Letters for Health Care Campaign) --- that you want to do within your U.S. Congressional District group within the single-payer movement.
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Thanks in advance for taking this step! By doing this you save us time, money and effort.
Bob Haiducek, Million Letters for Health Care Campaign
Wm. Ferguson Reid, MD national contact for the 435 U.S. Congressional District groups
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America must ask itself, what is more important, education, or health?
Or are they equal? We provide for public education, then why not health?
As a society we have long recognized that it is important to develop our minds, so we provide a complete system of education, funded by public taxation at a level we collectively agree upon. With health care, we are left to fend for ourselves through private insurance and individual ability to pay.
The explanation for the difference is historical. We have long understood the need for education, and the ability to provide it. Health care is only a recent development, with heath care becoming a significant expense in only the last 100 years. In the past, you could do something to educate your family, but whether they lived or died was a matter of fate. We have evolved past this through modern science, and can now put health on the same footing as education.
Our governmental institutions and society needs to accept and adapt to this evolution, and provide a similar public system. ‘Medicare for all’ can provide a basic level of heath care in the same way we provide public education for all. It will be rationed in the sense that our resources are finite. After all, if the goal of a heath system is a society that is disease free and its members live as long as possible, then a system that has no cost limitations has the goal of everyone being disease free and immortal. This is a noble goal, but we can ill afford. As public education has its limits, then ‘Medicare for all’ must also have its limits. As school boards, administrators, and voters decide the limits of the education system, so must ‘Medicare for all’ have its limits set by professionals, government officials, and voters.
This is not to say there is not a role for insurance or private pay. In the same way that parents want more for their children than can be provided through public education, and chose to pay to send them to private schools, anyone should be able to select and privately pay for any medical care they can personally afford. They may also privately pay for insurance that will provide care beyond what a public system can reasonably afford.
The time has come for society to take this evolutionary step; it is time for ‘Medicare for all’.
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