It is my contention that Barack Obama's Cabinet be picked early on and those people become part of the campaign to take back America from the corporatists who have pillaged, privatized and profiteered from, all of US. The Vice Presidency should be resolved soon, as well as the Atty Gen. Personally I would prefer those tasks be given to Bill Richardson and John Edwards, getting those two on the road, helping America understand that change is on the way.
Probably, the most important change is solving the Health care issue and there is no good reason not to go all the way to the solution that most know we must get to and few believe we can get there. The biggest political fight in America is how we can get to single payer, universal coverage, illiminating the insurance companies and their collusion with Big Pharma. To accomplish this goal, we must abandone half measures and lead a massive populist movement to overcome the obsticals. The new Secretary of Health and Human Services must be a dynamic politician as well as experienced in the field of medicine.
The is no one who fits the need for a brilliant campaigner, a populist leader and an experienced medical doctor nearly as well as Dr. Howard Dean. Of all the positions taken by Barack Obama, his health care plan is the weakest. It is full of half solutions and is not inclusive. The major argument for this new direction is that taking politically expedient, half measures that include these middle men and rewards price fixing, is that they will only be adding more expenses in the long run. Not doing the right thing because it seems to be politically difficult is not change, it is doing the same thing as usual, which is both cowardly and corrupt.
Single payer administration will cost 5 to 7% verses the 25% plus, that the "support your local insurance company" plans will cost US. Allowing these for profit companies to make decisions our doctors should be making with us is asinine. Allowing those corporations to be owned by the same investors who own the pharmacuetical companies and the health care facilities is simply rethuglicon. We need far better and far, far cheaper health care, before we all go broke just trying to keep our family's alive during times of health crises.
The health industry will fight this tooth and nail, claiming all kinds of terrible results. They will say that it will destroy the world's greatest health care system but that system is increasingly out of reach for even the safely middle class families. There is no way to reduce these escalating costs, other than a complete and radical makeover of our health care system that places prevention over profiteering. We must entrust our national health to a doctor we know will deliver a new way to health, for our benefit. Populism is the best cure for the cancer of corporatism.