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Yeah I’m confused.
Are we really losing the prog healthcare reform we want? You know, the one with NOW, for ALL, LOWER PREMIUMS, competes with industry, reforms care practices to eliminate doc’s and med groups who buy up or start groups with radialogical services and specialty care services so doc’s can refer to their OWN groups for profiteering?
Are we really losing a public option that will compete with insurance industry and lower costs for all?
Are we really losing a real reform effort that will end the elimination of denial of care?
A reform that will put a nationalized plan in competition with private industry (may they rot in hell) to LOWER premiums and COSTS OF DELIVERY?
A reform that will eliminate the 30% overhead of admin and profit skimming bonus plans for the mothuh CEO’s and their hired henchlings?
Are we losing to the 13% minority who are running loud and hard that are the rightwing nut white, racist, misogynist, homophobic idjits that are somehow DOMINATING a dialogue where 76% OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC HAVE DECLARED FOR A PUBLIC PLAN TO CHALLENGE CORPORATIST AMERCA?
Sorry for the caps and toobz shouting, but hey . . . WTF?
ARE WE EFFING LOSING?
I Don’t THINK so, homey progs and libs. So get over the crap.
And get in the fight. Obama let the stooges have the reins.
In August, they’ve hanged them selves. WELL. And FULLY!!!
Can they do bad stuff, and kill people? SURE!
They kilt JFK, MLK and RFK didn’t they?
Will they kill now?
I don’t know, they killed Dr. Tiller.
But what more can this minority do? Who can they kill now? EVEN with the help of the corporate feudalists? Will the past ghosts of history and government come together again for new killings?
Somehow, I dont’ think so.
There’s a LOT of blowback on the Publican Whackloons recently, that may swing that pendulum to the left, back to a center that’s left of Attila The Hun and Hitler.
Obama has let enough slack loose for the whacko’s (and their closet elected offals that have been revealed) and Blue Dogs to out themselves as being ANTI AMERICAN!!!
And they are suffering from it. GOP party stats are sucking.
We will make it thru August, and THE WORST POO THEY CAN FLING AT US!
And then, reality sets in, Obama steps up (as long as we protest it all) and well, either he signs a reform bill with public pressure on private pervisions, or he vetoes it all till we get what we want.
If he signs shit, then we go ape shit, all over again, and we’re used to that, aren’t we, ya boomer protesters?
Got something LEFT to tear down the walls if forced to do so to save yer asses? Hmm?We’ll see . . . but for now?
Please, QUIT the cheap bitchen about HC Reform, we don’t even have a bill on the desk of the President, to sign.
Till then, it’s all up in the air, and all y’all need to negate the shit, not blow the Pres Up.
But of course, I don’t MIND if ya hold ALL feets to fires, I am. So bust yer elected offals, bust Rahm, bust Obama, bust media and boycott advertisers.But for dawg’s sake, bust some chops!!! If ya don’t fight, now, we don’t deserve squat.If ya don’t fight we all hang. Again.
Harumph.
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It’s all intentional
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/7254
this is where yer confuzzled:
no other country uses ‘competition’ to keep their health care affordable. they all use government-imposed controls.
fortunately some of your co-bloggers get it. wigwam:
I’m all for government putting pressure on private insurers.
I’m all for government REGULATION of the private insurers.
We HAVE to have this mix to begin with, because it’s a pipedream to think we can get our elected offals to eliminate the private sector in healthcare from the get go.
So, your examples, one’s I’ve read before (good writers) and agree with, are just that, they are examples of other nations.
We are not other nations. We can’t and won’t get in September single payer. We MIGHT get viable reform and pressure the private sector. And then we start all over and work to single payer, with all those lovely foreign nation models to draw from.
I GET the arguement that we focus ONLY on single payer and decry any watered down public option. I get that. But it’s too late for that one. Now, we fight and clamor for what we can get out of Obama, and make sure he knows we will raise holy hell politically and publicly if he signs bad legislation without vibrant competition for the private sector, that covers all, NOW, without restrictions for previe conditions, etc.
We are in a sitch where we need to rein in and pressure the private sector, and I hope, we can move to single payer run by the government in full sooner than later.
But for now? Today? A public option, government run system to pressure the private sector.
Nothing mind boggling about that, and it addresses the present situation.
What we will GET from Congress, and what Obama will SIGN remains to be seen.
If we stop demanding WHAT WE WANT in that legislation, and what we DON’T WANT (co-ops that won’t compete with private sector) we’ll get nothing.
So we still need to make lots of noise.
Thanks for your comment.
I’d Suggest Reading THIS Diary, It’s SPOT On With Regards To Issues We Are Discussing.
And in case I wasn’t clear, I’m all FOR government being the pressure on private sector for now, till we eliminate the private sector in healthcare.
We’ll be LUCKY to get that, I’m afraid. It’s a frazzled picture of a puzzle, and daily gets more and more disjointed.
Our Health Sec and Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Obama all continue to cloud the waters of WHAT WILL BE!
Just no way to tell until the smoke clears and Obama signs something. Or vetoes it, if he has to.