Our Uncle Sam decided that, so not to offend racially conservative pig farmers, he decreed that we all stop calling swine flu, swine flu. Now what started out as an attempt at "universal health coverage" has digressed into "insurance access and reform?" The degree and manner to which this thing is being manipulated, twisted, and distorted make it appear that the insurance industry will be the biggest winner by reaping a great windfall in the billions if this insurance reform passes mandating that all Americans buy health insurance. Once again, the poor and working Americans will be the biggest losers and little else will change for the poor, working, and average American family.
If Obama, Reid and democrats cannot manage to pass health care reform that include a strong and robust, government run, public option, but keeps a forced mandate health coverage windfall for the insurance industry, then all democrats’ efforts will have been totally in vein, a complete waste of time, and an insult to all who elected them to office. I can remember when Mrs. Clinton took up this noble cause and failed; the press and reporters at ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, Fox, etc all foolishly and sensationally hailed that as a defeat for Bill and Hillary Clinton and a victory for conservative republicans, health care, and insurance industries. However, just as in this case, if this thing is too water down or fails again, only the neediest of Americans with loose, while the most greedy and ungodly will once again win! Weeks ago Cookie Roberts announced that the Public Option was dead!
Harry Reid, President Obama, Obama’s Anglo handlers, and senate democrats have allowed cries for universal health coverage to, by design, digress, and mutate into a malicious and disingenuous debate over "health insurance coverage." Moreover, that moment when Mr. Obama and democrats exit from a road toward universal health coverage onto this dead-end insurance coverage route, that simple detour represented both a monumental and intentional shift and a major victory for republicans, the health care industry, and the insurance industry!
When most states mandated automobile insurance coverage, not because of any scientifically proven need but rather by the urging and desires of the insurance industry and their lobbyists, the insurance industry reaped great windfall profit from that act. In addition state and local governments benefited by fining the poor, young, the broke, and others who were in violation because they failed and/or could not afford to buy automobile insurance. Now Obama, Reid, and other cowardly democrats, once again, are allowing the insurance industry to manipulate congress/law into mandating "health insurance coverage" over "universal health care."
Another looming victory for republicans and the insurance industry is Obama and democrats weak, back n forth, half azz support for a "strong public option." A few republican lithe democrats and Obama appear willing to stoop to any level of compromise with a few republicans and within their own body just to be able to say later..."even though it is not perfect... we passed health care reform!" I say "bull shit" to passing weak and water downed health insurance reform just for the sake of passing something! Bull Shit to any plan that does not include a strong public option! Bull Shit to a plan with some kind of water down public option with a fake/bogus trigger. All legitimate polls find the majority of Americans in support of a public option and even a lager percentage of the democrat electorate in support of a public option. Therefore, it makes no sense for Obama and democrats to be stooping to such levels they are just to appease and reach out to hostile minority opposition coming from republican, insurance, and health care special interests!
God and the American electorate handed Obama a bully pulpit, a mandate, a strong democrat majority congress, and the moral empathy and authority to provide universal health care to the masses! Yet with all in his favor Obama, with the urging of his Anglo handlers, maybe squandering away this great opportunity because of his efforts to include, compromise, and make deals with the devil! Moreover, instead of from the start, taking universal health coverage and steam rolling it into and over the obstructing bodies of these bias republican, industry executives, and lobbyist, Obama and democrats blinked, stalled, and struggled with too much debate, input, compromise, and too much emphasis and concern over the profits and business of these special interest industries!
Ignorant and racially conservative southerns along with supposedly well-educated democrats are two of the most gullible groups in world! I often wonder what it would take for the lazy azz bloggers/posters at DailyKos, MoveOn, Huffington Post, etc to get up off their lazy and cowardly azzes and march to Washington DC in protest of Obama and the dirty Republicans.