As much as I would want to lobby for increased tariffs and punitive taxation for companies that outsource American jobs overseas, I really would want to spend the hour on one major issue:
Single payer health care.
I would spend most of the hour on my main thesis: Any national health care plan that allows involvment of the insurance companies is DOOMED TO FAIL. They have no incentive to work with him on providing heath care to all American citizens, none whatsoever, since there is no profit in it for them.
Helping the country? Saving children and old people? Forget it - if they can't get a piece of it they will see it all burn. It's what they did to the Clinton initiative and they will happily do it to Obama.
What he should do is issue an Executive Order that makes all American citzens eligible for Medicare. If you want more features, or a better plan, you can pay for it.
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Saturn - I can guarantee that the moment the Executive Order goes into effect, the insurance companies will make it very, very easy to find supplemental care, and inexpensively, too.
Thank you for that list, Stellaa - excellent arguments and I intend to use them! Also: 6. It will be a net stimulus directly into the pockets of every single American currently paying for brutally expensive health insurance.
And let me nip a conservative argument in the bud - Medicare is LESS expensive than private health insurance, and you can still use any doctor you want. Yes, there will be expenses for the initial implementation - that can come out of the money people are saving on private insurance.
Also, be sure to send it into Obama!
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