Mad as Hell Doctors support Single Payer, a system of payment that redirects current health care monies, both public and private, in a single public system that covers everyone.

On September 8, 2009, a “care-a-van” left Portland, Oregon, on a multi-city tour to deliver a clear and simple message to our elected officials in Washington, DC: “Health care for people – not profit!”

You CAN handle the Truth

There’s no nice way to say it. The
financial cost of health care is killing our citizens, hobbling our
economy, crushing small business, and threatening the solvency of our
government.  In the meantime, the Health Care Industry is spending almost two million dollars a day lobbying Congress and
manipulating public opinion to accept “reform” legislation that leaves
a vicious, for-profit system intact. The “public option” is a trap.  We need real reform that finds immediate savings, controls costs, and accomplishes
the moral imperative of true Universal Access.  A Single Payer plan is
the only real path to a Health Care System that is socially, ethically
and fiscally responsible. And yet, our elected officials refuse to even discuss the possibility of a Single Payer plan!

If that doesn’t make you mad, we recommend checking your pulse.

The “public option” is doomed.

First: we will still have a dysfunctional health care system designed around insurance companies.

Second: it will be impossible to cover everyone without raising taxes. The
Obama administration is already saying it is acceptable to leave out 15
million people. Which 15 million? Will you be one of them? Who gets to
decide?

Third: in a “post-option” environment you
can bet that the health insurance industry will manipulate the rules so
that the sickest, most expensive patients will gravitate toward the
public plan, which will cause it to fail. When it does, the opponents
of real reform will point to the “public option” and scream: “See! Single Payer won’t work!”

There is a time for compromise – this isn’t one of them.

We are a small group of Oregon-Based doctors who care.  We
believe there is only one way to control costs, one way to remove
profiteering from the system, one way to reclaim the care of our
patients, and one way to be sure everyone is covered: we
must replace our current pay-or-die system and with a comprehensive,
publicly financed, privately delivered, Single Payer system that puts
people first.  Our moment to take a stand for Single Payer is NOW. We may not have another opportunity like this in our lifetime. Please support this unprecedented road trip to real health care reform.