First, quotes worth a serious read:

“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." Samuel Adams”

“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” Edward Abbey

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” Patrick Henry

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” Thomas Jefferson

"Government is not the doctor. It is the disease.” H. S. Ferns

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.” George Washington

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H. L. Mencken

“How do our representatives in Washington say ‘F*ck you!’? Answer: ‘Trust me.’” (paraphrasing of old Hollywood joke)

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We are the only industrialized country in the WORLD that doesn’t provide universal health care for its citizenry.

Hundreds of billions of dollars of waste from excessive administrative costs and outrageous levels of executive compensation for the insurance and pharmaceutical corporations have ruined America’s health care system.

Our vendors of health care, VENDORS — this is what these corporations are, Ralph Nader emphasizes, not our authoritarian leaders — do not deserve a second chance. Like vendors who give shabby service, they do not get a do-over. They have betrayed us and will continue to, just as the banking institutions are proving to, despite the insanely generous second chance given to them by our too easily trusted representatives.

A Single Payer Medicare-for-All health care system is the only sustainable, long term plan that will enable our citizenry to ever enjoy their basic civil right of humane and affordable health care. 20% of doctors are still on board with this choice, 80% favor a public option which would afford some of the single payer advantages, at least.

Yet, apparently, this, the only feasible and practical answer, is not feasible or practical, because the representatives we have empowered as our proxies have betrayed us by accepting such scandalous amounts of lobby-bribe money from the VENDORS. They now must compensate their bribers by ensuring that their profiteering will be sustained at the cost of the welfare of the taxpayers, at the cost of thousands of deaths of these taxpayers.

With the help of corporate media and especially with about 60,000+ anti-government-paranoids on the right, both groups hell-bent to rescue the perpetrators of our economic plight, we the citizenry are being pressed to SETTLE for what we do not deserve. We are being pressed to believe our only choice is to ENABLE THE ENABLERS of the moneyed corporate-pirates by letting them turn health care reform into even deeper amoral opportunism.

Dennis Kucinich contends Obama’s stance on mandatory health care will force 30 million new customers to sign up, whether they can realistically afford health care or not. Reform for citizenry is a Trojan Horse for the medical industrial complex.

Eat sh*t and try to smile, America. Not quite the change you wanted to believe in, huh? This is your tax dollars at work, along with the bribe money. Can you imagine how much these corporations will be making on our backs, if they are lobbying an average of $2 million a day, added to the millions already extended to our government representatives … to the President?

I am stunned by the reluctance and hesitation by the progressives to straight out demand the BEST CASE, DESERVED SYSTEM OF HEALTH CARE REFORM. SHOOT THE MOON. What more can we lose? Why don’t we insist on an end to cronyism? Why don’t we call them on it FIRMLY? Why don’t we exit denial that the prostituting representatives are remotely sincere in writing our health care bills?

We must NOT cooperate by enabling the enablers of the corporations.

There are two Congressional Single Payer Medicare-for-All bills presently being ignored, maligned or given short shrift by the citizenry, Congress and the media. They hold the true, sustainable, organically practical answer for this country.

I am making nightly calls to House Representatives in support of Conyers’ H.R. 676 and to senators for Sanders’ S. 703 Bill. Single Payer Medicare-for-All. The compromised configurations now being discussed by the media strike me as “Bankruptcy For All” plans and deserve to be labelled as such.

It is my responsibility as a citizen to fight for my civil right to enjoy humane and affordable health care. I am also registering with HR676.org and sending in their request for a modest $10.98 a year, $.99 a month (with one free month), in response to their solicitation for one million citizen sponsors to help fight back against the incredible truth-bending pressures from the p.r. operations of the medical industrial complex along with the bribed and biased advocates of corporate needs within the legislative and executive branches.

Out of the 80 million who empowered the Democrats and Obama, there must be one in 80 of us proactive enough to assert our wants and needs on this issue.

According to HR676.org, H.R. 676 has 93 co-sponsors in the House. In H.R. 676 everything is covered, including medications, dental services and long term nursing care. You choose your own doctors and hospitals. There are no more expensive co-pays, deductibles or pre-existing exclusions. Those in the lower income bracket will pay very low premiums according to their financial ability (some may not be able to pay anything at all at the beginning). Those in the middle will pay reasonable but affordable premiums. High income brackets will pay a little bit more in accordance with their abilities.

Under the New Medicare there will be a new focus on preventative medical health care. Preventative care does not generate those HUGE profits for the private insurance system, but it would be, besides humane, economical in terms of a Medicare-for-All system. A healthy, functional Congress would be able to transition health care workers from the medical industrial complex into a new single payer system. But the poor fat cats would lose their insanely unjust profiteering.

Alas, our Congress is enmeshed sadly with those fat cat cronies. So if no citizen pressure is levied against the corrupted will of Congress, the fat cats will continue to rule and rape the American citizenry.

Two-thirds of all bankruptcies in America are caused by medical bills and three quarters of those are families WITH health insurance. Judging from the fiscal considerations of the Congress, there is no amount too great to be given to the military, but sacrificing the welfare and even lives of Americans is easily worth cutting costs for. Again, "Bankruptcy (or Premature Death) if not for all, for many!" Bernie Sanders asserts by the end of the year 1 million of our fellow citizens will be bankrupt from health care crises. (As Congress enjoys their lobby money as well as their own generous, government-funded Cadillac health care.)

I do not trust my representatives to hammer out a “trust-us-to-honor-your-desired-robust" bill. We all know the in-your-face skewed semantics of government. Up is down, right is left. Left is not always left when it comes to big corporations. Sure, the corporate-front media will posture as an impartial and trustworthy judge of how successful any miniscule “compromises” will seem in the upcoming weeks. As the Dems settle for any bill, and the Republicans obstruct any bill, we get to watch our government betray us one more time.

Jacob Hacker’s original vision of a Public Option covered 129 million uninsured Americans. Right now, the “pragmatically robust” public option, if it survives, may cover 10 million Americans at most. That is how our guardians in Congress take care of us? After the first serious round of compromises they discard 119 MILLION Americans? Ah, but it is quality not quantity apparently, and the top 3% (corporate power-brokers) of this country trump the bottom 97%, a struggling, shocked and awed citizenry. Time to wake up and smell the money, fellow citizens.

Remember when Obama asserted that there should be caps on executive compensation and that promise titillated those of us so hungry for justice for almost an entire news’ cycle? Once again, "Lucy and the football" elusiveness.

The outright prostitution of so many of our Congress people to the “medical industrial complex” can not be denied. We are CINOs. Constituents in name only. The corporations are the real constituents of a stunning majority of our representatives.

We, the citizens, are the neglected children of a dysfunctional national family whereby our executive and legislative guardian-parents are addicted to MONEY and ambition. And we are now asked to accept and to enable their prostitution, even in this post-Bush administration. It feels like we have progressed from living off the crumbs of the Bush administration to begging for croutons from the Obama one.

We have that same learned helplessness of such neglected children. Or maybe the boiled frog metaphor is more impactful? We are like “boiled frogs” as the corruption has worsened over the years. The heat of corruption turned impossibly high during the Bush administration. Obamaco has hardly turned down the flames.

In a wave of ferocious hope and dedication eighty million of us enabled Obama and the Democratic party to wrest control from the Republican bottom feeders who were dismantling our Constitution and our democracy. Raping our treasuries. Killing at exponential rates our patriotic and betrayed soldier-children and those shocked and awed foreign civilians, in the sentimental name of democracy, covertly for global corporatist exploitation.

And now, as the dust settles on our election fantasy victory, we discover that the status quo Democrat-led Congress and executive branch has no intention of honoring our needs for affordable and humane health care for all (or demilitarization, for that matter). There will be no change for the better for all or even most of us.

Our new or newly empowered, but nevertheless, ferociously status quo leaders will tap dance a lot to assure us our welfare matters to them and “reform” means “change” for the better. (See “trust us” definition above). They will try to keep the “afterglow” of the election victory shining for as long as possible. Obama with that trustworthy and warm smile. His acclaimed intelligence. Helping them most is the reluctance of those who stubbornly signed on for the “change they could believe in” to now admit they were misled. To struggle through those five stages of grief.

We have a toxic health care system (60 Americans dying each day from inadequate health care, one American going bankrupt every thirty seconds, 47 million presently without health care) and, again, the perpetrators of this toxicity, the VENDORS, have bribed our representatives to have their needs considered over the needs of the real constituents Congress took a not-so-solemn oath to represent.

I am recommending all citizens access http://www.hr676.org/ and work for real affordable and humane health care reform. It is our civil right.

Are we willing to stand up and fight for our own welfare, the welfare of our children, of their children’s children, et al.?

To repeat Adams’ quote:

“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." Samuel Adams”