- 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 "reform" bill that, instead
of helping people, has been designed to help the insurance industry.
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- 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 nation's overall health bill by at least
a third, but in the process shutting down the private health insurance
business.
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- Then they chipped away and are at this point on the verge
of eliminating any so-called "public option" or government-run
health insurance plan to even compete with the private insurance sector.
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- Finally, in a move as breathtakingly accommodating of
the insurance industry as was the multi-trillion-dollar bailout financial
bailout of Wall Street's 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-a gift to the industry of some 40-50-
million new unwilling customers.
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- 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.
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- 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...
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- For the rest of this story, please go to:
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- http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
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