SEND A MESSAGE TO OBAMA:
Margaret Flowers, MDDr. Quentin Young’s letter advocating Medicare for All appeared in the New York Times (below). Dr. Margaret Flowers’ heartfelt letter to the President and her attempt, with Dr. Carol Paris, to deliver the letter to the President in Baltimore resulted in their brief arrest and several media interviews.
You can add your voice to the growing chorus calling for Medicare for All here.
To the Editor,
President Obama’s State of the Union address had a high point when he pledged that anyone with a “better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medicare for seniors, and stop insurance company abuses, let me know.”
Thank you, Mr. President. The answer is the reform supported by 65 percent of the public and even 59 percent of physicians. It’s remarkably simple, and the nation has already had 44 years of successful experience with it in financing health care for our elderly and the totally disabled.
It is, of course, Medicare-for-all, single-payer, not-for-profit national health insurance. Its superiority lies in excluding profit-seeking insurance companies and Big Pharma from controlling and undermining our health system. This is your answer, Mr. President.
Quentin Young
Chicago, Jan. 28, 2010
The writer, a doctor, is national coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program.
Quentin Young, MDLet the President and Congress know about the “better approach” known as single payer by writing a letter to the editor or an op-ed to your local newspaper. You can also contact your representative and senators, urging them to take a new look at an improved Medicare for All.
If you haven’t already signed “Open Letter to President Obama to Support Single-Payer Health Care,” please do so today. Every effort counts!
‘Single payer is your answer, Mr. President’
“If anyone from either party has a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medicare for seniors, and stop insurance company abuses, let me know … I’m eager to hear it”. – President Obama, 1/27/10
The President’s State of the Union Address and the stalling of health care reform legislation in Congress in the wake of the Democratic defeat in Massachusetts has created a new opening for advocates of single payer national health insurance.Margaret Flowers, MD
You can add your voice to the growing chorus calling for Medicare for All here.
President Obama’s State of the Union address had a high point when he pledged that anyone with a “better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medicare for seniors, and stop insurance company abuses, let me know.”
Thank you, Mr. President. The answer is the reform supported by 65 percent of the public and even 59 percent of physicians. It’s remarkably simple, and the nation has already had 44 years of successful experience with it in financing health care for our elderly and the totally disabled.
It is, of course, Medicare-for-all, single-payer, not-for-profit national health insurance. Its superiority lies in excluding profit-seeking insurance companies and Big Pharma from controlling and undermining our health system. This is your answer, Mr. President.
Quentin Young
Chicago, Jan. 28, 2010
The writer, a doctor, is national coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program.
Quentin Young, MD
If you haven’t already signed “Open Letter to President Obama to Support Single-Payer Health Care,” please do so today. Every effort counts!
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