VOTE IN THE 2012 ELECTIONS

Vote in the 2012 Elections

Save Social Security and Establish Medicare For All

Retirees for Single Payer Health Care encourages everyone (especially retirees)  to Vote in the 2012 Elections.  If you are not registered get registered and vote.  If you are registered do not stay home, vote.

We are faced with an unprecedented attack on Social Security and Medicare.  In 2005 the Department of Health and Human Services published a report that Medicare will be broke by 2020 and Social Security will be broke by 2041.  That will leave all of us without Social Security and Medicare in the future and upward of 80 million retirees out in the cold faced with starvation and resulting in early death today.

Both of these trusts are filled with IOUs from the Treasury Department.  When the Treasury receives your “payroll tax” it goes into the general fund.  Some of these “payroll taxes” pay for current Social Security and Medicare expenses.  The rest get spent on other government programs and the “trusts” are given non-transferable T-Bills.  And tax breaks for the class of billionaires and millionaires is a government program.

Cutting “payroll taxes” for business by 50% is not the answer.  They will not invest in more jobs but rather more productivity and less jobs.  Cutting “payroll taxes” for employees simply means spending our retirement income now instead of in retirement.

The solution that we must demand is no tax breaks for billionaires, millionaires and business.  We cannot afford them and Social Security and Medicare at the same time.

The problem with Medicare is not just tax breaks, the problem with Medicare is medical insurance companies and healthcare providers and their 20 to 30 percent profits.  That is why we have 51 million people uninsured and another 50 million people underinsured.  For every dollar we pay for premiums 20 to 30 cents does not go for our healthcare.  The insurance companies and healthcare providers keep it.  And we face not only co-insurance, copays and deductibles, but healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, etc.) are forced to practice medicine defined by insurance companies and provider stockholders.

Medicare For All (HR 676) does away with this:

  EVERYBODY IN NOBODY OUT - GIVES EVERY RESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE U.S. TERRITORIES ACCESS TO ALL MEDICALLY NECESSARY HEALTH SERVICES INCLUDING VISION AND DENTAL WITH NO CO-PAYS OR DEDUCTIBLES REGARDLESS OF EMPLOYMENT, INCOME OR HEALTH STATUS.

NON-PROFIT HEALTH CARE - CONVERTS ALL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS TO A NOT-FOR-PROFIT SERVICE WHERE ILLNESS IS NO LONGER A SOURCE OF WEALTH FOR A FEW.

SINGLE PAYER - PAYS FOR THAT EXPANDED COVERAGE BY MAINTAINING THE PRESENT LEVEL OF FEDERAL AND STATE FUNDING FOR HEALTH CARE AS WELL AS TURNING THE PREMIUMS NOW PAID TO PRIVATE MEDICAL INSURANCE COMPANIES INTO MEDICARE PREMIUMS THAT ARE SHARED BY EVERY EMPOLYEE AND EMPLOYER.

To this end, we encourage everyone (especially retirees) to vote for local, state, and federal candidates who will fight against this attack on Social Security and fight for Medicare For All (HR 676).

To aid in this effort we are providing a list of Congressional Representatives who support Medicare For All.  Please tell them you support it and want them to run on this as one their prominent issues in 2012.  Please tell them you want the Social Security and Medicare money back from the billionaires, millionaires and business that paid for their tax breaks.

We are also providing a list of all Congressional Representatives and Senators.  Please tell them you want them to support Medicare For All and run on this issue in 2012. 

RETIREES FOR SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE, DETROIT, MI

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