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Re: Donna Smith with Bill Moyer’s tonight and PDA National Co-Chair Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign

Wayne A. Mayo — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:41:54 -0000

THANK YOU FOR BEING A LEADER DONNA SMITH! THANK YOU BILL MOYERS FOR YOUR JOURNAL AND AIDING THE "SINGLE-PAYER" CAUSE ...

Our country continues to be raped daily 24/7 by Big Insurance, the HMOs and the greedy, bottom-line focused special interest lobbyists whose primary concern is making a profit ... AND TO HELL WITH THE HEALTH AND WELFARE OF THE POOR, THE MIDDLE CLASS AND THE ELDERLY! And just guess who is aiding and abetting the entire process? Well connected, and waayyyy well "juiced" with BIG HEALTH INDUSTRY donations - YES INDEEDY ... Our very own Senators and Representatives!

The House of Representatives and the United State Senate should be so very, very proud of themselves for doing the right thing on this crucial issue! They should be lining up rock solid to support Rep. John Conyer's and Senator Bernie Sanders' efforts for real health care reform, H.R. 676 and S703. It's not as if they don't get the best of the best treatments and health care coverages thanks to all of we poor slobs providing it as a benefit for their supposed efforts on our behalves?

Yes, once again the Big Medical Corporations, HMOs, Greedy Insurance Companies & related sleazy special interest lobbyists are spreading around more and more of their ill-gotten profits as donations to our Representatives and Senators who continue to be FOR SALE !!! Wonderful to watch the BEST GOVERNMENT MONEY CAN BUY operate with nary a moment's pause for how despicable and absolutely disgraceful their shamefull efforts appear when in the limelight! Witness the recent Senate Finance Sub-Committee roundtable discussions ... WHAT A CHARADE THEY WERE! But hats off and our sincere thanks to all those appearing for Single-Payer and carted off to jail for their efforts! I say loud and clear again - THANK YOU DONNA SMITH AND ALL THOSE WHO CONTINUE TO ATTEMPT TO BRING "SINGLE-PAYER" TO THE TABLE(S)!

Wayne A. Mayo

Re: Donna Smith with Bill Moyer’s tonight and PDA National Co-Chair Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign

Wayne A. Mayo — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:32:17 -0000

ANYONE TAKING THE TIME TO JOIN DONNA SMITH WITH BILL MOYERS ON "THE JOURNAL" FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 2009 MUST HAVE COME AWAY WITH A RENEWED SENSE OF THE UP-HILL FIGHT FACING THOSE OF US WHO WOULD "LIVE, BREATH AND DIE" FOR A SINGLE-PAYER ENHANCED "MEDICARE-FOR-ALL" SOLUTION TO OUR NATION'S HEALTH CARE CRISIS! I FOR ONE AM NOW EVEN MORE COMMITTED TO SINGLE-PAYER ... AND I THANK DONNA SMITH, AIDED AND ABETTED BY MOYERS, FOR RE-CHARGING MY BATTERIES! WAY BIG TIME MUCHO THANKS DONNA FOR TELLING IT LIKE IT OUGHTA BE TOLD! AND PLEASE CONTINUE TO "GIV'EM HELL"! WE HAVE GOT YOUR BACK! SEE YOU ALL IN AUGUSTA, MAINE FOR "THE FEET ON THE STREET RALLY" THIS SATURDAY, MAY 30TH !!! ____If ever there were a time to re-commit to Single-Payer, the nation-wide planned May 30th demonstrations for Single-Payer and "real health care change" will provide one and all a super opportunity to join the movement! Remember always: It is immoral for a country as wealthy as ours to have 45 million people with no health coverage, and tens of millions more with inadequate or overly expensive coverage. ____It also makes no economic sense

Re: Video: Donna Smith on Bill Moyers Journal

Wayne A. Mayo — Sun, 24 May 2009 06:19:10 -0000

If ever there were a time to re-commit to Single-Payer, the nation-wide planned May 30th demonstrations for Single-Payer and "real health care change" will provide one and all a super opportunity to join the movement! Remember always: It is immoral for a country as wealthy as ours to have 45 million people with no health coverage, and tens of millions more with inadequate or overly expensive coverage.

It also makes no economic sense; despite spending twice as much as other industrialized nations on health care, our system performs poorly because the private "For Profit & Health Care Be Damned" U.S. insurance bureaucracy soaks up nearly one-third of all health care money in waste, profits, paperwork, concerted efforts to deny coverage and advertising.

Poor health and poor health care are drags on the economy and job creation; up to half of all personal bankruptcies are caused by health care crises.

And yet the "bought and paid for" Senate Finance Sub-Committee under the guiding hand of Democrat Chairman Senator Max Baucus (who is famous for having sold out to the U.S. insurance corporations and special interest lobbyists big time long ago) recently conducted "Laugh-A-Minute" roundtable discussions as if there were: No such thing as H.R. 676 ... No such thing as professionally qualified working doctors and nurses seeking to participate in those same talks ... No such thing as a majority of Americans and large segments of the business community in favor of a Single-Payer Enhanced "Medicare-For-All" solution to our nation's present Health Care Crisis!

Evidently the Obama administration has also lost sight of ... Or is equally blind and deaf to ...The ever growing nation-wide support for the Single-Payer Health Care option as well!

Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) supports Rep. John Conyers bill, H.R. 676, which establishes streamlined, nonprofit national health insurance ... Enhanced "Medicare-For-All" ... Which would negotiate drug and treatment costs. By replacing private insurers and recouping administrative savings of up to $300 billion per year, this Single-Payer approach provides topnotch health care to everyone. Care would be privately delivered by healers and hospitals, but publicly financed ... With no bills, co-pays, deductibles, denials or medically-induced bankruptcies. PDA also supports health care initiatives at the state and local level that move us toward a "Non-Profit" Single-Payer system.

THUS, WE ASK: WHERE FOR ART THOU "ORGANIZING FOR AMERICA" ??? What has become of the "Voice and Force For Change" ??? HOW AND WHY HAS OBAMA LOST THE WAY ??? Maybe it's just more of the "BEST GOVERNMENT MONEY CAN BUY" hard at work! Gettin' it done for the BIGS!

Nevertheless, I will continue to fight for Single-Payer and give what little funds I can afford to part with to PDA and its efforts on behalf of all Americans!

Once again ... PLEASE JOIN US MAY 30th IN AUGUSTA, MAINE ... Don't miss the "FEET ON THE STREET" RALLY ... For more information, click on and vist: http://www.midcoasthealthca... !!!

Wayne A. Mayo