I know. I know. Cut off nose. Spite face. But honest to bejesus, if we go to all the trouble and expense to achieve control of both elected branches of government and still get no health care reform, as promised, politics clearly isn't the problem or the solution. The problem is the unaccountable health insurance system.
Why do insurance companies have eternal streams of cash to spend every day, year after year, decade after decade fighting single-payer or even a single public option? Why are they free to keep this fight going? How do they always manage to coral reform back toward the status quo? They have those billions of dollars to buy public opinion and Congressional votes because we give it to them. We stop giving them the money through our exorbitant premiums and they will have to choose between their bonuses and paying off Congress, end of report.
Could this be costly, difficult, and even dangerous? Yes. Is it worth the risk? I'm starting to think so.
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