{"id":3840,"date":"2007-10-22T10:31:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T16:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2017-05-21T03:34:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T09:34:41","slug":"single-payer-health-care-works-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/single-payer-health-care-works-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Payer Health Care works in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/mikael.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/mikael.thumbnail.gif\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>by Mikael Rudolph, Co-Founder of Impeach for Peace<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Last month I helped organize a protest\/appeal at a Minneapolis appearance by House Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers&#8217; Jr. (D-MI) at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcdailyplanet.net\/article\/2007\/09\/24\/reps-ellison-conyers-take-single-payer-health-care-suburbia.html\">Town Hall meeting<\/a> to drum up support and educate those in attendance about his proposed United States National Health Insurance Act (HR 676) sponsored by my Representative in Minnesota&#8217;s 5th District, Keith Ellison.<\/p>\n<p>My perspective, as well as those of my fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/index.php\">ImpeachforPeace.org<\/a> members was that as troubled and ineffectual as the American health care system was, the health of our Constitution and our Democratic Republic was of far greater import and in far more urgent need of attention.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">While my concern for the future of our nation and passion for defending our nation&#8217;s Constitutional form of government against the domestic enemies to it now in power hasn&#8217;t lessened, October&#8217;s events in my personal life have certainly affected my vantage on health care.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/opedne_mikael___071022_single_payer_health_.htm\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mikael Rudolph, Co-Founder of Impeach for Peace Last month I helped organize a protest\/appeal at a Minneapolis appearance by House Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers&#8217; Jr. (D-MI) at a Town Hall meeting to drum up support and educate those in attendance about his proposed United States National Health Insurance Act (HR 676) sponsored by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-related-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Single Payer Health Care works in Italy &#8226; Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen&#039;s impeach strategy. 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