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  <title>Support a Fighter for Single Payer!</title>
  <author>Anthony Weiner</author>
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  <blurb>Friends:

Nearly 50 million Americans have no health care coverage and fifteen thousand more will lose their coverage every day should we fail to enact meaningful health care reform.&#160; Health care costs continue to rise at a rate three times higher than wages.  Something needs to happen to fix health care in this country, and I believe we should do it now and do it right.

Because I am committed to fighting for a smarter, less expensive and more humane system that ensures choice, guarantees quality and doesn&amp;#39;t mortgage the future of our children, I will introduce legislation this fall that would establish a &amp;quot;Medicare for All Americans,&amp;quot; single-payer system.

Here are two video clips that make my case.&#160; One is of me trying to explain the facts of the situation to a conservative talk show host, and the other is of me focusing on an even more wrong-headed audience - my Republican Colleagues.

Weiner tells Republicans to &amp;quot;put up or shut up&amp;quot; on Medicare - &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTh-Yu9RfF0"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTh-Yu9RfF0&lt;/a&gt;

Weiner leaves Scarborough Speechless - &lt;a href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/464837/joe_scarborough_is_shocked_yet_awed_by_single_payer_logic"&gt;http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/464837/joe_scarborough_is_shocked_yet_awed_by_single_payer_logic&lt;/a&gt;

If you are an insurance company executive, you may not want to watch.

Thanks for visiting.

Anthony Weiner

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