Angry British citizens have held a protest outside the American embassy in London to protest the American media's lies about British healthcare. Meanwhile, anger builds internationally about the US media and their North-Korea-like information blockade of positive news about functional healthcare systems elsewhere such as the UK's NHS.
A media war is heating up in response to more and more Americans calling for a single payer system like those in neighboring Canada and the UK. (which would stop the 101,000 preventable deaths each year in the United States that occur from preventable lack of care)
Its obvious that the US politicians and the United States power elite feel threatened by the fact that the United States healthcare system is the global poster child for injustice and lack of access to health care. While lots of effort is being put into diverting the public's anger about lack of affordability into peripheral issues like "coverage", the fact of the matter is that 101,000 Americans die each year from preventable causes that would not have happened in the best healthcare countries. More Americans die each day from our inferior health care than died in Pan Am 103. More Americans die in 10 days than died on 9/11.
So, why are influential Democratic political consultants trying to downplay these issues?
It all comes down to money. In order for private insurance based private OR public-optional health care to be ACTUALLY affordable, the government would have to spend far more than the $320 per year per person it has allocated so far to solving this problem. We might even have to dip into the huge defense budget.
Bailouts for insurance companies and investment banks might have to be slashed, and plans for stimulus for other corporate contributors might have to be postponed.
Single payer could do it, though..
Single Payer and its associated savings, Obama has said, is "off the table". So we are left with little choice but to provide only the worlds most expensive substandard health care.
Sorry!
More information about single payer healthcare for all..