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PBS' Bill Moyers Journal: Dr. Margaret Flowers on Single Payer, Medicare for All
PBS' Bill Moyers Journal: Dr. Margaret Flowers on Single Payer, Medicare for All
BILL MOYERS: Make me an offer I can't refuse. That's what President Obama said, when he talks about health care reform during his State of the Union last week.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: If anyone from either party has a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen medicare for seniors and stop insurance company abuses, let me know. Let me know. Let me know. I'm eager to see it.
BILL MOYERS: Dr. Margaret Flowers took him at his word.
MALE VOICE: Can I help you?
DR. MARGARET FLOWERS: Well, last night the President gave his State of the Union address, and I'm a physician. I'm the Congressional Fellow with Physicians for National Health Program.
BILL MOYERS: The very next day she was outside the White House with a letter urging the President to revive the idea of single-payer healthcare. Medicare for all.
MALE VOICE: We can't accept anything, so you'll have to send it through the mail.
BILL MOYERS: The Secret Service turned Dr. Flowers away, but she didn't give up. She tried again the next day in Baltimore, where once again, President Obama made his offer to hear ideas on health reform and once again, she tried to deliver her letter.
DR. MARGARET FLOWERS: Is there somebody here who's in charge that can have somebody who's a representative of the President, come and take this?
BILL MOYERS: This time, she and her colleague, Dr. Carol Paris, refused to move when security told them to, because Dr. Flowers said, "We didn't want to continue to be excluded, marginalized and ignored."
They were arrested.
DR. MARGARET FLOWERS: And we haven't been heard. They continue to exclude us. Read transcript, watch video.
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First and foremost, let's take a close look at what's really the center of this whole discussion. The President. Now, lets add some knowledge to that picture. If you would please look at the definition of what a "LIE" is. Webster's defines a lie as: "ANYTHING OR ANYONE" that MISLEADS or DECEIVES. It does not exclude anyone. Not even the President of the United States. Sure there's been others who fit perfectly well into this definition of what and who misleads and/or deceives with their comments and statements. But I prefer to stay in the here and now. Today Feb. 8th, 2010. Doesn't the Constitution, make references to this very ABUSE. [ You do remember the Constitution don't you?] It used to be the foundation of our nation, until it started to be totally ignored by those people in Washington D.C., and is continuing today.
Thanks Dr Flowers.
President Obama has no intention of allowing any talk of single payer healthcare in his plan to repay some of his debt to private companies in the healthcare industry, who contributed heavially to get their man in the White House.
As Doctor Flowers and many others have experienced, the President will not allow any interruptions to his agenda of paying his personal debts back to those companies.
The President is just the top recipient of these campaign contributions by the elected officials in D.C. Most who sold their constituent's out before they were actually sworn in.
There are still people who beleive that the President has concern for the people of this country. His actions speak much louder that words when the people are being continually ignored, while his agenda is continuing to support Corporate America. Words are cheap. And the President seems to have an abundance of words.