Health Care a Human Right?

Washington, DC, June 24, 2009 --(PR.com)-- "Our decades' reliance on the market and efforts to patch together a system to use a public and private mix has failed to carry a quality health care to all Americans. The market is the wrong model. Health care is not a commodity, it's a human right," Dr. Margaret Flowers spoke at Senator Kennedy's health committee hearing.

Flowers was one of the thirteen single-payer advocates arrested at the Baucus Finance Hearing in May. She is a pediatrician in the Baltimore area and a co-chair of the Maryland chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP).

She told TRNN that President Barack Obama's public insurance plan would still not solve the problem of inaccessible health care in the United States. "It doesn't solve the fundamental problem that we have in this country, dealing with so many different insurers. It just adds one more insurance to the mix. It's going to be expensive. The connector, the exchange that they want to create will add costs, their efforts to regulate private insurers is going to add costs, health care providers are still going to have to deal with a whole maze of plans, and patients are still going to have to deal with that."

"I think that whole idea of being bipartisan from the beginning was a mistake. I mean, we have the opportunity right now, we have a Democratic president, we have a Democratic Congress. We should be able to craft legislation that serves our people," Flower said.

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