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From the lens Single Payer Lensography.

  • progressivist Jul 29, 2011 @ 11:05 am | delete
    I used to live in Europe, and experienced single-payer health care for myself. Unbelievably short wait times (doctors even made house calls!), free excellent healthcare (a European physician took one look at me and diagnosed a problem I had been to over eighty doctors for in the USA; each doctor wanted to treat symptoms without searching for the underlying problems); and many more benefits, paid for with just about the same taxes that people in the USA pay. Single payer (with European-style backing of medical school financing) is definitely the way to go! I simply cannot understand what the big deal is, because single payer just makes so much logical sense.
  • mukunda22 Jul 31, 2011 @ 9:44 am | delete
    I appreciate this comment and am going to quote it somewhere that I believe will make it stand out!! Thank you!!
  • DaveStone13 Apr 22, 2011 @ 4:57 pm | delete
    At some point, we will either start using our common sense to overthrow the gamers in the system and make healthcare economically available for all or it will take down the economy and the last vestiges of good will with it. Voters need to wake up and elect better politicians.
  • Margo_Arrowsmith Apr 21, 2011 @ 6:26 pm | delete
    What a treasure trove! Blessed again. The irony is that the add above it was about repealing 'Obamacare' arghh. It should only be repealed to get a bill with the public option!
  • pkmcr Feb 4, 2010 @ 1:53 am | delete
    Very informative lens which demonstrates your commitment to the topic
  • crosscreations Nov 25, 2009 @ 10:24 am | delete
    also love michael moore, a few more like him and we'd have the health care issue licked!
  • Tipi Nov 2, 2009 @ 8:04 am | delete
    Very interesting health lensography. I'll have to lensroll this to my and come back when I have more time. It was nice to wake up to see an email and a blessing. Thank you for blessing my new lens, that was nice!!! I love lensographies, and learned more about you and what you do.
    Good on you and a blessing on this nice lens.
    Susie
  • JaguarJulie Aug 14, 2009 @ 9:39 am | delete
    I dropped by to check out your lensography -- especially keeping in mind something that I just heard -- that you will NOT do a summer school lensography? Well, shucks -- it would be a good one I think. ;)
  • mukunda22 Jun 25, 2009 @ 9:48 am | in reply to lwhitelaw | delete
    Thank you Laura!!

    People need to know that Canadians love their Healthcare system and not listen to the propaganda machines who are paid exorbitant fees to tell us what and how to think!!

    We can think for ourselves!! By golly!!
  • mukunda22 Jun 25, 2009 @ 9:48 am | in reply to lwhitelaw | delete
    Thank you Laura!!

    People need to know that Canadians love their Healthcare system and not listen to the propaganda machines who are paid exorbitant fees to tell us what and how to think!!

    We can think for ourselves!! By golly!!
  • lwhitelaw Jun 24, 2009 @ 10:46 pm | delete
    I am all for single payer. Being a Canadian I can't imagine not having access to healthcare if I were unemployed or if I was gravely ill and my health benefits were cut off. I know that many Americans have the impression that in Canada "people are dying while waiting to see a doctor". And, I suppose that has happened but probably not any more often than anywhere else including the US. Yes, I may have to wait 30 to 45 minutes to get in to see my family doctor but it's soooo nice to know that I'll never have to worry about paying for health care in my old age and that the doctor will decide what treatment is best for me rather than some corporation. Yes, I have waited in emergency waiting rooms for several hours but this has only ever happened when I needed to see a doctor after my family doctor had gone home for the day. But, those who go to emergency are assessed and the most serious cases are taken first. If you arrive by ambulance for example, you are looked after right away.
  • ChineseKitesforKids Jun 23, 2009 @ 11:23 am | delete
    Fabulous! God Bless You!!

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