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Pass Single-Payer Universal Health Care Now! (86 signatures)

...over 2,600 signatures with our written petitions.

To President Obama, Congress, The Office of The Governor, The New York State Legislature, The New York City Council, and The Office of The Mayor:

There are over 1.2 million New York City residents without health insurance. Those who are insured all too often are burdened with the high costs of a for-profit health care system. Employers are routinely forced to lay off workers and close factories due to the costs of insuring their employees. But despite the price tag, the quality of our health care system is still woefully inadequate for too many New Yorkers.

We cannot afford to wait for Washington politicians and insurance company lobbyists to give us true health care reform. New York City is the financial capital of America - if we were a nation we'd have the 17th highest GDP in the world. We can lead the charge for real health care reform in this country if we take action at the state and local level.

I, the undersigned, hereby call on Congress, Albany, and the New York City Council and the Mayor to work together and pass a single-payer health care program at the national, state or local level. There are currently 400,000 uninsured Brooklynites and countless more who are underinsured. Spiraling health care costs have a crippling effect on local businesses, and we need to pass legislation that moves us away from the current for-profit, employer-based system of health insurance and towards a single-payer system if we're going to get our economy back on track. The health of our communities and the viability of our economy depend on real reform now!

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Count	Name	Date	City	Comment
1	Charlene Barker	18 Aug 2009	Brooklyn
2	Doug Biviano	30 Aug 2009	Brooklyn	Healthcare is a local crisis for individuals, families and our economy. Therefore, local officials must not only lead to shape the debate, we must demand the best and most efficient system -- single payer healthcare -- be implemented. Single payer healthcare or 'Medicare for All' solves the access problem and strips the wasteful for-profit middleman health insurance companies from where they don't belong (between you and your doctor). Once we solve the crisis of healthcare access for all, we can then work on the other cost problems. Single payer healthcare, the best public option, will not only restore our economy locally, it will answer the greater moral imperative to do so and save countless lives and jobs.
3	Kai Hankinson	19 Aug 2009	San Diego
4	Charlotta Janssen	20 Aug 2009		Having lost friends and friends of friends and almost lost a close friend to this healthcare system it hits home how horribly wrong this system is - it stands alone in it's total for profit thinking as opposed to other countries. Germany for instance has a cap on all medical malpractice suits to 20 000 Euros. It helps keep insurance for doctors low and benefits the society more as a whole. Unlike here in Germany no one is ever turned away for life saving surgery and alternative medicine is often integrated into conventional medicine. There is a lot to learn from the European and the Canadian system, that puts healthcare first and not maximized profits over the cost of care for the individual. The current system should be called by it's real name 'healthcare only for the rich and then for a lot of money and only maybe for the others and then only some'.
5	David Chaiken	25 Aug 2009	Brooklyn	Let's join the 21st century and show that the United States of America is a compassionate country that values intelligent progress. Healthcare for all.
6	Russo Teresa	27 Aug 2009	Staten Island	Most other developed countries have universal health care. It's ridiculous that the United States is lagging so far behind other counties in the care of its citizens. This country is still catering to the insurance industry and allowing insurance and pharmaceutical companies to make huge profits while so many people cannot afford health care. The American people need and want a single payer option. Don't let the insurance industry intimidate you into giving up on this.
7	Rauschenfels M	27 Aug 2009	Brooklyn	If the insurance companies are against it, you know that means everyone else should be for it!
8	James parente	27 Aug 2009	Copiague
9	Ayers Jonathan	27 Aug 2009	Brooklyn	Single Payer is the only way we can get meaningful change that will cover everybody, lower costs and provide the best service possible!
10	Tran Max	27 Aug 2009	Brooklyn
11	Melissa Browning	27 Aug 2009	Brooklyn
12	Jennifer Laoang	27 Aug 2009	Brooklyn
13	Martin Ben-Ari	27 Aug 2009	Wheatley Hts
14	Franz Kirsch	27 Aug 2009	Northport	It's frightening how many people believe the lies and mis-information that is being put out. All the scare tactics are there to make you forget how the insurance companies are determining which doctors you can see, which procedures you can have, worst of all if they'll cover you at all. Meanwhile republicans are telling us we'll loose our choice of doctors, health care will be rationed. This is happening now. Ever wonder why the insurance companies don't cry about Medicare, it's because they don't want older people, they cost money, they get sick. They are afraid of all of us seeing that there is a better way and that they might not be able to choose their customers. This surely will crimp their style when their bonuses are stopped and the money actually has to go to help people. Just remember you don't have to take the public health plan if you're happy with what you've got, but know this, you can get it and keep it job or no job, where ever you go without any limit on how much is spent on your care. Does any other insurance do that? Do you want this choice not to be available? Do something about it, speak out!
15	Roxanne Warren	27 Aug 2009	New York	This is a no-brainer, and a matter of simple morality. The public option, if not single-payer -- NOW !!!
16	Roxanne Warren	27 Aug 2009	New York	This is a no-brainer, and a matter of simple morality. The public option, if not single-payer -- NOW !!!
17	Nick Balaban	27 Aug 2009	Brooklyn, NY	I'm sorry, but there is no infrastructure in our government that allows for real compassion and interest in the welfare of the people of this country (and world). I'd love it if I were proved wrong. Let's stop waiting for a Messiah, in the form of a President or Congress. Time for a revolution.
18	Daine Clark	27 Aug 2009	Staten Island	I'm so tired of the lies, the scare tactics. The scariest thing would be things remaining as they are. Offer THEM a choice: single payer (preferably), strong public option, or make ALL health insurance companies non-profit, with highly regulated compensation packages. It's immoral to earn money by denying our fellow citizens care.
19	julius erdei	27 Aug 2009	brooklyn
20	Merrill Carey	27 Aug 2009	Brooklyn	Imperative. And about time.
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