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leaders' background
Jack E. Lohman - Colgate Wisconsin - Contact
jlohman@execpc.com
A retired business owner, Lohman
spent 25 years providing cardiac monitoring services to
hospitals and physician clinics. As a current Medicare patient
he sees the same doctor and goes to the same hospital as before.
"Medicare works, and it works beautifully," he says. "It
boggles my mind that the business community has not risen up and
demanded that their associations push it through congress."
Lohman is a freelance writer and author of "Politicians
- Owned and Operated by Corporate America," which outlines
the role big money takes in blocking health care reform. He is
now a community activist that operates the web sites
www.ThrowTheRascalsOut.org and
www.WiCleanElections.org. As a side interest he established
www.SmokeFreeDining.net, and clearly hopes that all of his
web
sites will become obsolete soon.
George Penn -
George is the
president of Global Energy Options - an international energy
consultancy based out of Madison, Wisconsin. He believes that
U.S. businesses cannot compete in the global market if they have
to bear the highly escalating costs of health insurance in this
country. And he does not miss the the point that the U.S. ranks
37th among developed nations in healthcare services while paying
the highest cost per capita. Thus, single payer is the only
solution offered that will work.
R. Sawyer Spoon-
I am a small business owner and former teacher
who has researched the health care issue extensively from a
business perspective. While following our health care dollars,
looking for potential cost savings by rooting out waste, fraud
and abuse, the path always led primarily to the health insurance
industry's door. I discovered this single entity represents
every cliché I can think of, from Naked Emperor to Mis-identified
Elephant to 800-lb. Gorilla to Cat In the Bag (needing to come
out) to None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See, on and on.
This one industry is bankrupting our country, businesses and
people both morally and monetarily. The only way it can profit
is by hurting people and every other business except
itself. Hurting Americans and America is not what American
Business is supposed to be about. Myriads of health insurance
risk pools operating under apples-and-oranges policies
representing false promises and limited options are not good for
Americans or our businesses (from smallest to largest and
everything in-between).
"Eliminating inefficient, amoral middlemen that
are keeping us divided, conquered, and from utilizing
efficiencies of scale" is common business sense. If health
coverage were truly a free market, then health care consumers
would want to be united together into the largest Protective
Pool possible for the best coverage at the best prices with the
most transparency, including total freedom to choose among
independent care providers. I discovered we're wasting $300-400
billion health care dollars every year to kill least 101,000
innocent Americans, cause millions of unnecessary bankruptcies
and lawsuits over who has to pay medical bills, create easily
preventable physical disablings plus 47 million
Americans living in terror of becoming ill in the richest nation
on Earth, and leave at least another 50 million horribly
under-protected. Almost every American under 65 is only one
accident, illness, job change or loss, divorce or death of a
spouse away from joining our growing lists of uninsured. We pay
twice as much per capita as any other civilized nation to ration
one out of every six of us to zero with wait times until "after
it's too late". Fixing our broken health care system should not
be a partisan issue because fixing it right would be both humane
and cost-effective. We're spending too much and getting too
little now, and all we're guaranteed if we don't change
something dramatically and fast is that we will continue to pay
more and get less as far as the eye can see. This trend needs
to and can be reversed. Universal Care Done RIGHT will not cost
us anything; it will save us billions of health care dollars and
millions of devastated, innocent American lives. The only thing
stopping us is education and political leadership. We're
working to get what needs to happen, done, so we can all get
back to business.
Paul Linzmeyer -
Business in the US must get control of its future by embracing
the goals of this Business Coalition. There is too much cost
shifting going on in healthcare today. If we do not act in our
own best interests now, the the cost of healthcare will be out
of control in five years, especially with the impending
retirements of the baby-boomers.
Business Coalition for Single Payer
Healthcare
339 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012-2725
Toll-free 1-800-453-1305
www.BusinessCoalition.net
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