What's Not So

Does "healthcare reform" signal the end of democracy in America?

"Democracy,” someone said, “is the last stage of government before oligarchy.”

The so-called healthcare reform being rammed through Congress by and for the healthcos confirms that we have made the transition to oligarchy. Single payer is “off the table”, even though it’s wanted by most voters and physicians, many state legislatures including those of Maine, New Hampshire and Illinois, the U.S. Conference of Mayors (by unanimous vote), the Maine Medical Association, Obama’s long-time personal physician, many civic, labor and religious groups, etc., etc.

Single payer Medicare for All is uniquely American, efficient and ethical, costs less than our present system, and covers everyone. The 27 pages of Medicare For All HR 676 define it. In contrast, the corrupt bills now being pushed through Congress are over 1000 pages long, mandate forced purchase of insurance, pay tax-payer funded subsidies directly to insurance companies, will add more than $1 trillion to the national healthcare bill over the next ten years, and STILL will leave millions with no coverage.

But this phony “reform” will add revenues and profits for the healthcos, so they want it and therefore it’s what we will get. By suppressing even discussion of single payer, the healthcos have diverted debate to fantasies of a “public option”, perhaps the biggest bait-and-switch scam in the history of the world: http://www.pnhp.org/blog/2009/07/20/bait-and-switch-how-the-%E2%80%9Cpublic-option%E2%80%9D-was-sold/

Rally for single payer in DC on Thursday. Here's how: http://www.democrats.com/node/19877

 

How Health Care Reform Will Help You: NYT

Response to "Health Care Reform and You", NY Times editorial, July 25, 2009:

The corrupt heatlhcare "reform" plan wending its way through Congress will in fact HURT many who are now covered. The 1000+page bill will require that everyone buy insurance, and will pay subsidies directly to insurance companies to help pay for those "in need". Eliminating rejection for prior conditions will make premiums more expensive for those already covered by private insurance. Paying for subsidies will raise taxes, and, to further help pay for these subsidies, Medicare benefits will be cut drastically.

All just to keep the healthcos happily in business imposing their 45% markup on actual healthcare delivery. So the notion that those already covered, whether by private insurance or by Medicare, will benefit from the "reform" scam about to be foisted on us by the insurance companies is therefore false, another lie in a blizzard of lies spewed out to sell a deeply flawed plan.

Single payer Medicare For All costs less and covers everybody. HR 676 is 27 pages long vs. the bloated 1000+ pages of the the House plan. Single payer is efficient, economical and ethical. Why can't we have it? Because Congress heeds donors, not voters. Healthcare "reform" marks the end of the republic. Oligarchy is clearly supplanting democracy.