The Democrats: Really, You Just Gotta Laugh
By Dave Lindorff
The Democrats in Congress, and their main man Barack Obama in
the White House, have taken tens of millions in legal bribes from the health
insurance industry over the past year, and have obligingly been hammering
out in Congress a health ³reform² bill that, instead of helping people, has
been designed to help the insurance industry.
They started out by immediately blackballing any discussion of
real health reform in the form of an expansion of Medicare to cover everyone
of every age, which of course would have ended the problem of the uninsured,
while cutting the nation¹s overall health bill by at least a third, but in
the process shutting down the private health insurance business.
Then they chipped away and are at this point on the verge of
eliminating any so-called ³public option² or government-run health insurance
plan to even compete with the private insurance sector.
Finally, in a move as breathtakingly accommodating of the
insurance industry as was the multi-trillion-dollar bailout financial
bailout of Wall Street¹s biggest banks, they proposed to require (on pain of
a $3800 fine by the IRS) to require everyone in America to buy a health
insurance plan from the private sector million new unwilling customers.
But a combination of public outrage at this forced program of
insurance and recognition that the inevitable government subsidy of
low-income insurance buyers would be humongous has led Congress to
backtrack, and start backing away from the mandatory aspect of this plan.
And now the private insurance industry, not satisfied that it
has managed to practically dictate the terms of the health reform
legislation so fare, and angry that it might not get those 40-50 million new
forced customers, is reportedly threatening to turn around and knife the
president and the Democratic Congress in the back...
For the rest of this story, please go to:
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/396
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
WTF? Obama Gets the Nobel Peace Prize?
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/395
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