- As I wrote months ago in an article titled America's
Stupid Health Care Debate: Keeping Some Ideas Off the Table
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- http://thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/276 and several
subsequent pieces on thiscantbehappening.net, President Obama
and the Democrats who currently run Congress have been hoist on their
own
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- collective petard by their craven and gutless refusal
to consider adopting a Canadian-style single-payer system to finance health
care in the US, or simply to expand Medicare, which is a successful single-
payer program, to cover everyone, instead of just people over 65 and the
disabled.
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- Instead, because they are the recipients of hundreds
of millions of dollars in legal (and probably plenty of illegal) bribes
from the health care industry, they have cobbled together a "reform"
in name only, which preserves not just the central role of the vampire-like
health insurance industry, but also ensures the continued rapacious profitability
of the other segments of the medical-industrial complex-the hospitals,
the pharmaceutical industry, and the specialist doctors.
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- Now, like Hillary and Bill Clinton before them, these
weasels and slimeballs who pose as the people's advocates are left with
nothing but a Potemkin Health Plan that looks on the outside lie a reform,
but that changes little or nothing, leaves vast numbers of Americans uninsured,
forces tens of millions to buy crappy plans from private companies, and
that will end up doing nothing to halt the continuing rise in health care
costs that is bankrupting the people, employers and the country.
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- Nice going guys!
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- Let's for a moment consider what could have happened...
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- For the rest of this story, please go to:
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- <http://www.thiscantbehappening.net>http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
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