Opposition to Obama's Nazi Health Care Plan Building

May 31, 2009 (LPAC)—Advocates for a single-payer health care system are on an organizing drive across the country to try to get single-payer into the debate on health care reform. The LaRouche movement supports single-payer, but nothing will happen on it until the Obama Administration's Nazi health care policy is defeated and the HMOs are defeated.

Here are a few highlights of opposition to the Obama Nazi plan across the country:

* Single-payer advocates are targeting Montana, the home state of Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus. According to the Great Falls Tribune, single-payer advocates showed up en masse at several "listening sessions" that Baucus's staff held across the state, including meetings in Missoula, Hamilton, Anaconda, Dillon and Livingston. "The word 'insurance does not equal health care,'" said Janelle Kuechle, of the town of Polson, at one meeting May 28. "If I have to pay a $900 premium to have health insurance with a $10,000 deductible, that is not health care."

* In West Virginia, an editorial in the Wheeling News-Register urged caution in the rush to pass a reform bill. The newspaper noted that on May 28, Obama warned Congress that "If we don't get it done this year, we're not going to get it done." "In view of what little we have heard about the Obama proposal, that would not be a bad thing," the editorial states. Though otherwise couched in anti-government rhetoric, the editorial concludes, "Health care reform is too important—and the potential for missteps too great—for legislation to be rammed through the Congress simply because Obama insists that it must be done immediately."

* In San Francisco, about 200 single-payer advocates held a rally in front of the district office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and went into the office in small groups to urge that she support a single-payer plan. In California, single-payer has the support of several organizations, including the California Nurses Association.

* In southern Arizona, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) organized a town hall meeting in Tucson that drew 1,000 people. While the expert speakers she brought in complained about people's lifestyles and the cost of health care, most of those who spoke from the floor, including advocates for a single-payer system, told of the inability of so many people to get insurance and demanded care for everyone who needs it.

* Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the sponsor of single-payer legislation in the House (H.R.676), went on a six city-five day tour, last week, to build support for his bill. He told Atlanta Progressive News, in an interview, that the reason why President Obama doesn't support single-payer is because "some of the people around him are not the smartest people in their positions. As a result, some of his advice is less than perfect."

* In Denver, on May 27, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean was met with cool skepticism, according to the Colorado Independent, when he spoke in favor of a public option to compete with private health insurance, in front of a crowd of about 300, most of whom supported a single-payer plan.