Where is the left on health care reform?

Let me give an example of how the left has shirked its responsibility in becoming a catalyst for real health care reform.


The current issue of "In These Times" does not even have one single article on the health care issue even though the health care issue is front and center on the minds of everyone.


In this same issue there is a list of names of over 4,000 donors to the publication.

Wouldn't we be having a national discussion on the need for a National Public Health Care System if each and everyone of these 4,000 contributors took the time to write a Letter to the Editor of their local newspapers?


The question we need to be asking is why wouldn't a publication like "In These Times" which claims to be a socialist publication be using its resources to spark such a movement?


And what about the dozens of other left publications?


In fact, "In These Times" refused to publish a letter I wrote to them suggesting just such an initiative.


Sixteen pages listing all of its financial contributors and thanking them... but not one single word about the need for these contributors and its readers to build a movement for real health care reform while the entire country is focused on health care. How can this be? Would Eugene Debs have shirked such a responsibility to be the voice for a National Public Health Care System while the entire nation is focused on health care?


Once again we see where intellectuals can not relate to the problems of the working class in seeking out and advocating real solutions.


I am not picking on "In These Times;" I just happened to be reading it after having received it in the mail yesterday.


Are these "intellectuals" really so far out of touch with reality that they would evade the central issue of the here and now?


Or are these "intellectuals" who miss no opportunity telling us how we should think and how we must vote just accommodating the Democrats by trying to keep people out of this debate and out the struggle for real health care reform?


This is mind-boggling.

One In Five Doctors Say: “No New Medicare Patients”

Either Paul Ryan is full of it or he has no idea what he's talking about

Paul Ryan Explains The GOP Health Care Plan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7nk9_KT3LU


Does anyone really believe any of this?

The joke is on voters who trusted Trump’s healthcare promises

I need to ask this question:


Is it our goal to make everyone buy health insurance or is it our goal to make sure everyone gets the health care they need?


An observation:

Fixating on making sure everyone buys health insurance is actually depriving people of health care.

A comment:


Having health insurance is no guarantee one will get the health care they need.


Several obstacles are involved with the delivery of health care through health insurance companies:


1. High premiums.


2. High co-pays.


3. High deductibles.


Another question:


Why has the government allowed doctors to refuse to accept Medicare and Medicaid? Allowing this is sabotaging these programs.


Another question:


How come the government can force everyone to have health insurance but can't force doctors to accept Medicaid and Medicare?


Another question:


How can the government force everyone to buy health insurance but can't dictate to pharmaceutical companies the price they charge for medications?


Comment:


The private for-profit health care system has failed the American people... the time is now for a National Public Health Care System... there is no other alternative that works to provide everyone with health care.