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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 12:00p Eastern
Sick and Wrong
Chat with Matt Taibbi about his latest Rolling Stone article. Hosted by Jane.
How Washington is screwing up health care reform — and why it may take a revolt to fix it.
Health Care Reform: Sick and Wrong
America’s disastrous health care system is responsible for incalculable amounts of illness, death, lost productivity and federal deficit — not to mention anxiety, anger and disgrace. And it’s not going to get fixed, writes Matt Taibbi in the new issue of Rolling Stone, because it’s encased in another failed system: the U.S. government. Rather than attempt to remedy the problem this summer, our government sat down and demonstrated its dizzying ineptitude. “We might look back on this summer someday and think of it as the moment when our government lost us for good,” writes Taibbi. “It was that bad.”
Read Here in Rolling Stone Magazine.
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Reported today: United Health Care made a profit of $5 billion last year. Profit over people. The CEO the shareholders are walking over the dead they turned down, threw out of the system, so their profits would be huge. These are immoral bankrupt corporate sleazoids who shouldnt be permitted anywhere near health care. These companies dont contribute even a band aid to health care. Madashelldoctors.com holding a national tour starting Sept. 1 and ending up in DC the end of Sept. Unfortunately the democrats supported by Robert Reich are going to steal the doctors thunder by putting together a mass march on Washington on Sept. 13. They will make sure the liberals (not progressives) will fall for the Public Option. What is the public option? No one I know can describe what it reall means. The only public option, should be the single payer option.