If you want unfiltered information on peoples satisfaction for healthcare, why not call Canadians directly as listed in the post below that was sent to me. 

We get emails, all kinds of emails, from people thinking it would be great if we mentioned something near and dear to them on Effect Measure. We are flattered by this, of course, but we aren’t journalists or a commercial site or a non-profit advocacy site (well, we are ultimately non-profit, but not intentionally). Occasionally, though, we get email that piques are interest and enthusiasm. This afternoon I got one from Jonathan Link, a writer for AboutKidsHealth, a project of the The Hospital for Sick Children at The University of Toronto.

Back in the days when Quebec was a referendum in the Province on whether to secede from the rest of Canada, there was a campaign from outside to call a Quebecois to tell them that Quebec was a valued part of the country. People dialed their own phone number but with a Quebec area code. Mr. Link suggests that Americans start a similar campaign to Call a Canadian:

Want to know what universal single-payer health care is really like? Do people die on gurneys waiting for operations? Would you pay through the nose in taxes? Is it really worry free? Instead of listening to "experts" from the health insurance industry, lobbyists, the government, or even Michael Moore, why not call an average Canadian and find out for yourself?

Substitute your area code for a Canadian one listed below and call your own phone number. Introduce yourself and ask the person at the end of the line what they think about their health care system. Ask about their own experience. The service, the price, the choice, whatever.

Then make up your mind if single-payer universal health care is a good idea for the USA.

Canadian Area Codes:

• 709 Atlantic Time plus a half hour
• 506 and 902 Atlantic Time
• 819, 418, 581, 450, 613, 514, 438, 343, 416, 647, 905, 289, 705, 519, 226, 807 Eastern Time
• 204, 306 Central Time
• 867, 780, 587, 403, 587 Mountain Time
• 250, 778, 604 Pacific Time

Call a Canadian : Effect Measure#more

The media has been deafeningly silent on single payer insurance. It is imperative that the media explore the details of single payer insurance in order for citizens to get factual and unbiased information.

As citizens we must also ensure that Congress understand that we are aware that 60% of Americans want some sort of universal healthcare. We must bombard all avenues including blogs, chatrooms, call in programs, TV stations, radio stations (conservative and liberal) constantly and effectively daily, hourly to provide the logical reason we support a single payer healthcare insurance as well as detail the failures of for profit health insurance.

Contact your specific senator and congressperson and the specific representatives listed below. Call frequently.

Call them and let them know we want single payer. I am doing this everyday with many others. Please do your part as this is for us all.

Waxman – (202) 225-3976 (DC)  (310) 652-3095, (818) 878-7400, (323) 651-1040 (LA).

Rangel – 202-225-4365 (DC), 212-663-3900 (NY)

Miller – 202-225-2095(DC), 925-602-1880, 510-262-6500, 707-645-1888

Please also view:

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-262091

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-262550

There is no need for private healthcare insurance companies. Single Payer Health Insurance is the only solution. See an excellent expose by Bill Moyers on it at http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-262091.

Last night Bill Moyers Journal had an excellent fact based expose on Single Payer Insurance. Some clips are used to illustrate the realities behind why we must have such a system. President Obama understands that the state of our health insurance system will bankrupt both the country and individuals within. In fact he understood that single payer insurance was the only way out in 2003. If he does not use his ability to educate the masses as to what is at stake and support Single Payer Healthcare Insurance unnecessary deaths will continue. It would be the equivalent of Virtual Health Insurance Sanctioned Manslaughter.

The following note was received by the Obama organization. Please click on the link below to help get health care reform now. Please be sure to specify you prefer a Single Payer System but you will accept no less than than a system with a public insurance option.

Thanks for taking action. Winning real health care reform in 2009 is an enormous challenge — and we all have to do our part.

Please forward this note to friends and family who might want to share their story and join you in supporting the President’s principles for health care reform.

http://my.barackobama.com/healthcareorganizing

The more of us who speak up, the stronger we are.

Thank you,

Mitch Stewart

Director

Organizing for America

P.S. We’re gearing up for the next stage in this campaign — Health Care Organizing Kickoffs. On June 6th, Organizing for America supporters like you will gather all over the country to build local teams, get the latest updates on the health care debate, and plan local service events and neighborhood outreach activities in your area. Click here to host a meeting near you:

http://my.barackobama.com/hckickoffhost

To be frank, these executives are doing what they are suppose to do; maximize their profits for their companies. It is for this reason that we need to take healthcare out of the hands of private companies as the profit motive must come first and all profits that could otherwise be spent for more healthcare isn’t.

Health Care Leaders Say Obama Overstated Their Promise to Control Costs – NYTimes.com

YOU MUST WATCH THIS!

In this video President Obama implies that he does not want to risk the failure of getting a Healthcare Reform Bill at the expense of ideological purity. He states that if we were starting from scratch he understands that the Single Payer Healthcare insurance would be preferable and that given that healthcare is 1/6th of our economy that we probably could not make that drastic transition.

We should stand with the President on this issue under one and only one condition. If the bill includes a public option that any citizen has the ability to join irrespective of preexisting conditions or current employer provided plan. The reason we can accept this compromise is that ultimately the mathematics of the Single Payer Government option (public option) will ultimately effect a transition of most citizens to the public plan simply based on the cost.