COFFEE BREAK 28

+ Updated at 1:06pm ESDT June 25, 2009

+ I don't see how a single payer system is going to make it this summer so I am advocating for the Public Option for Health Care. I think it is the path toward Single Payer eventually.

+ CommonDreams offers "Moment of Truth for Obama and the Democrats" by Theda Skocpol. It begins: "Fellow Americans, and fellow Democrats and Obama supporters, we are at a moment of truth, a pivotal turning point -- in the form of what happens in the next days and weeks with robust, universal health reform. A fork in the road socially, economically -- and politically. It could go either way depending on Obama and the Democratic officeholders many of us worked so hard to elect. They have the power to act, but will they use it -- or lose it?"

+ Of course there are a lot of good reasons to keep promoting a Single Payer Health Care System. CommonDreams offers "Proponents Say Single-Payer Health Coverage is Optimal Rx: San Joaquin, Calif., group wants guaranteed care" by Joe Goldeen. This is an article published by The Record ( San Joaquin, Calif.) which presents several of these excellent reasons.

+ The New York Times offers "The Prescription From Obama’s Own Doctor" by Nicholas D. Kristof. It begins: "As a society, we trust doctors to be more concerned with the pulse of their patients than the pulse of commerce. Yet the American Medical Association is using that trust to try to block a robust public insurance option as part of health reform."

+ The New York Times offers "Health Care Showdown" by Paul Krugman. Excerpt: " ... if surveys like the New York Times/CBS News poll released last weekend are any indication, voters are ready for major change. The question now is whether we will nonetheless fail to get that change, because a handful of Democratic senators are still determined to party like it’s 1993."

+ TalkingPointsMemo offers "Why the Critics of a Public Option for Health Care Are Wrong" by Robert Reich. Excerpt: "Without a public option, the other parties that comprise America's non-system of health care -- private insurers, doctors, hospitals, drug companies, and medical suppliers -- have little or no incentive to supply high-quality care at a lower cost than they do now."

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