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1. JerryWells on 11.08.2009 at 10:45 (Reply)

   The single most important issue vital to all working people that hopefully this Netroots Nation conference should address is the need for “single payer’ health insurance. The terrible fact is that Obama’s corporate profit maximization scheme, called “health care reform”, is being rammed down the throats of working people many who are literally dying for lack of adequate health care, if any.

   If you watch television on a regular basis, you may not even know what I am talking about. You may not even have heard about “single payer” health insurance. All you may hear about is the lunatic right wing attacks agains Obama’s health care reform as being “socialist” or that Obama is a some-kind of socialist.

   The organized labor movement has pointed to these right wing attacks on Obama as a “reason” why we should all support Obama and his corrupt “health care plan”. This is false reasoning, of course.

   But you may still not know about the lower cost or universal advantages of “single payer” because the television stations you watch rarely even mention the overwhelming advantages of “single payer” to the American people.

   The reason for this is that there is a huge conflict of interest, with the same people on the boards of directors of the power drug and insurance companies are also on the boards of directors of the mass media companies.

   Please check out this story:

   Published on Monday, August 10, 2009 by Extra!
   Single-Payer & Interlocking Directorates
   The corporate ties between insurers and media companies

   by Kate Murphy

   How often are employees allowed to work on projects that might put some of the people they work for out of business? That’s the conflict of interest that journalists reporting on the healthcare reform debate are often put in by the boards of media corporations they work for, which frequently include representatives of the insurance industry.

   While a recent New York Times/CBS poll (6/20/09) has found yet again that the majority of Americans believe the government would both provide better coverage and keep costs lower than private insurance companies, a single-payer plan as an option for healthcare reform continues to be underrepresented in the media (Extra!, 6/09). A single-payer plan would allow the delivery of healthcare to remain private, but the government would pay for it out of a single federal health insurance fund. Like Medicare or Canada’s healthcare program, it would cut out the middleman by bypassing private health insurance companies. But such companies are well-represented on the boards of directors of media conglomerates-a factor that may help explain the blackout of such a popular possibility for reform.”

   Please follow this link to the CommonDreams full article, with a chart, showing this conflict of interest and more details on what is happening.

   http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/10-7

2. cmichie on 12.08.2009 at 14:50 (Reply)

   Dear Readers and Netroots Nation Participants,

   I am very interested to know if any part of the Netroots Nation event will focus on the serious Health Care Delivery issues facing Injured Workers or the Failures within Workmen’s Compensation.

   Any session information or contact information is appreciated.

   Thank you in advance!

   Craig Michie
   NvVIAW@aol.com
   Nevada Voters Injured At Work

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