Some things we know.

Some things we don’t.

We know Obama’s health law mandate robs from the poor and gives to the rich.

It forces all citizens to give money to giant health insurance corporations.

It keeps the insurance companies in the game.

When in fact, they should be forced out.

Another thing we know is that single payer is the answer.

It controls costs, it saves billions of dollars, and tens of thousands of lives a year.

That’s why Single Payer Action organized 50 medical doctors to resist Obama’s mandate – and filed an amicus brief calling on the Supreme Court to strike it down.

Pointing out that Congress had another way — single payer.

On the day the Supreme Court was hearing the issue, we were in front of the Supreme Court with a banner that read:

Strike Down Obama’s Mandate — Single Payer Now.

We don’t know how the Supreme Court will rule in late June.

But we do know that we have done what others have refused to do — we stood up to both corporate parties.

And challenged Obama’s mandate — when others were gagged by their fear of hurting Obama in an election year.

We also don’t know how we are going to get to single payer.

But we do know that we won’t get there by embracing a law written by the insurance industry.

For a donation of $100 or more to Single Payer Action, we’ll send you a hard copy of the historic amicus brief — written by Single Payer Action’s attorney Oliver Hall and signed onto by the fifty doctors.

We will also send you the just released and soon to be classic — 99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It – autographed by the author Chuck Collins – the expert on wealth inequality in the USA.

Together — the amicus brief and the book — will give you a deeper understanding of the upcoming Supreme Court decision.

And how the top 1 percent continues to steal from the bottom 99.

It’s part of our ongoing effort to find new ways to break through the unified corporate wall of opposition to single payer.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

Onward to single payer.

Russell Mokhiber
Single Payer Action

PS: Remember, for a donation of $100 or more to Single Payer Action, we’ll send you a copy of the historic brief, and the 99 to 1 book signed by Chuck Collins. This offer ends on June 15, 2012 at midnight. The supply of the autographed book and brief is limited. So donate now.

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Single Payer Activist Speak Out

Docs — Single Payer the Way

Elizabeth Frost MD for Single Payer

Democrats Error

The Only Way

Single Payer Push

Earlier this year, Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) visited Berkeley Springs, West Virginia and was asked about Glass-Steagall, the depression era law that prevented banks from gambling with your savings account.

Glass-Steagall was repealed by President Clinton in 1999.

Many economists believe that the repeal of Glass-Steagall had a lot to do with the most recent economic collapse.

Senator Manchin said he never heard of Glass-Steagall.

Last week, at the Peking Restaurant in Martinsburg, West Virginia, Senator Manchin was asked about single payer national health insurance.

Senator Manchin said he didn’t know enough about single payer to take a position on it.

This is getting embarrassing.

At the Peking Restaurant, Manchin was asked about an amicus brief filed by 50 doctors calling on the Supreme Court to strike down the Obama mandate in favor of a single payer national health insurance system.

Manchin’s first reaction – we don’t have the support for a single payer system.

Why is there so little support in Congress for single payer?

Because people like Manchin don’t support it.

Or as Manchin said when asked directly whether he would support a single payer system – “I don’t know enough about it to tell you I could support it.”

(Note to Senator Manchin – here are two great web sites that will tell you all you need to know about single payer – Physicians for a National Health Program and Single Payer Action. Don’t try and pull that one on us again, okay?)

Manchin said he’s opposed to the Obama mandate requiring every citizen to buy health insurance from private health insurance corporations.

Then he said – “If the Supreme Court rules it unconstitutional, what is Plan B?” Manchin asked.

Well, Plan B is single payer – a single payer system where everybody is in, nobody is out – like the VA, like Medicare.

A single payer system that most western industrialized countries have adopted.

Why not?

Manchin comes up with this –

“There has got to be personal responsibility,” Manchin said. “There is no incentive to keep yourself in better shape.”

Yes, there has to be personal responsibility, Senator.

Starting with you.

Your campaign banks accounts are getting fat with corporate contributions.

You are supposed to represent the people of West Virginia.

Not the corporations.

Why do you keep siding with your corporate funders?

And turning your back on your constituents?

Carol Paris is PIISD