Fwd: qotd: NBC's chief medical editor, Nancy Snyderman, endorses single payer

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Subject: qotd: NBC's chief medical editor, Nancy Snyderman, endorses
single payer
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 08:11:50 -0800
From: Don McCanne <don@mccanne.org>
To: Quote-of-the-Day <quote-of-the-day@mccanne.org>



MSNBC
Morning Joe
December 30, 2013
Top Health Stories of 2013
Nancy Snyderman, M.D., NBC's chief medical editor

Dr. Nancy Snyderman: I think there should be a single payer system. And
increasingly you're seeing physicians in their late 50s, 60s and 70s who
are saying, you know what, we got it wrong; we should have taken
Medicare, expanded it and done it smarter.

http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe

YouTube clip of segment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0giveiH1Zc


Comment: The endorsement of single payer by NBC's chief medical editor,
Dr. Nancy Snyderman, is a welcome addition to the many voices of those
who have long understood the superiority of the single payer/improved
Medicare for all model of reform but who now believe that it is finally
time to speak out in support of it.

It is interesting that this video clip of Dr. Snyderman has been
circulated widely on conservative blogs. We are hearing "single payer"
from the conservatives so frequently now that it's almost as if they are
trying make the term a pejorative much as Reagan, Thatcher and others
did with the term "socialism." Another example just this weekend was on
Fox News - six minutes of meaningless jabber, with the exception of one
token, fair and balanced panelist who supports single payer:


http://video.foxnews.com/v/3009813083001/new-push-for-single-payer-health-care-in-america/?playlist_id=928378949001