(This is the Agenda for a committee meeting. June 25, 2009. Reprinted here for those who didn't make the meeting.)

Translation: Sensible, humane, health care will be dead on arrival at President Obama’s desk. The death sentence is coded into the phrase “Public Option” which doesn’t take the brains of an eleven-year old to decipher. It means a “free lunch” which is impossible. Without imposing a new tax it will not be possible for the Government to pay the cost of care for everybody including those already sick while at the same time continuing existing subsidies to the HMOs. That’s the free lunch analysis of what’s going on now in Congress. There’s another analysis that ignores the Public Option scam in preference to wiring shut the gaping maw of the health insurance industry. It’s having a “free lunch” on us and we are fed up.

The agenda for tonight, June 25, addresses the single payer movement now underway on Vashon under the auspices of others with more sense than this ad hoc chairperson. Whereas national health care is dead on arrival as noted, it is incumbent on those others with more sense that they quit trying to influence that foregone fatality. Instead they should go for a local single payer method funded by us islanders in lieu of continuing to pay into a failed and corrupt national health policy. It is so moved, and accordingly a second is encouraged to come forth, or at least buy me a beer. The tea at the Luna is great but, tea is tea.

Project Vashon Single Payer is the current project of the VMICC ad hoc Committee on Alternate Currency. Meet Lunavision nights at 6:30.