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HealthCare Initiatives Supports Single-Payer Universal Healthcare System

January 15, 2009

Analysis of:Health-Care Outlays Climb at Slowest Rate in Years | online.wsj.com

The immorality of allowing Americans to go without healthcare in America is self-evident. Less evident is the sound economic sense it would make for the nation.  Single-payer universal healthcare would save money for all of us. Greed, fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption are incompatible with a rational, well-conceived and efficiently implemented healthcare system. The biggest myth constraining movement to a single-payer universal healthcare system has been perpetrated upon employers. They have been coopted and manipulated into opposing single-payer by vested interests acting to sustain and proliferate the status quo. Inadvertently or purposefully, they have accepted their healthcare finance and service vendors' so-called leadership, misinformation, and massaged data. 

Healthcare Consumers Are More Savvy

August 6, 2008

Analysis of:Patients Curb Prescription Spending | online.wsj.com

The article is based upon the premise that U.S. pharmacies are reporting fewer filled prescriptions. Many Americans have determined correctly that filling their prescriptions via the Internet from mail-order and foreign outlets is less expensive. Other Americans simply cannot afford the high cost of many medications and are going without or receive sufficient supplies from their physicians. The healthcare industry has held up well under most economic conditions, but this recession is taking a toll on family budgets slammed concurrently by energy, food, and housing inflationary pressures.       

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