Health Insurance Cos are winning again, stupid!
This week, Bill Moyers's program on PBS touched on the topic "Is the President's Health Care Bill worth supporting?"
Bill did a great job of giving his audience two very different perspectives.
Wendell Potter, a former health insurance executive who has become an outspoken critic of the industry, said that the legislation is flawed but good enough that it should become law.
On the other hand, Dr. Marcia Angell, a Harvard medical lecturer and former editor-in-chief of the NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, has advocated for single-payer reform, in which the federal government would provide a national health insurance program for everyone. Angell argued that the current bill would make a bad situation worse and sour the public on further reforms, so Democrats should regroup and push for better legislation in the future.
After the program Bill posted the question to his audience, asking whether they support the HCR Bill. Over 1300 comments were posted and majority said they agreed with Dr. Angell, wanted a single payer system and wanted to START OVER.
START OVER? Hey, I heard that before. At the recent Health Summit. Every GOP who spoke said the same line ... START OVER! START OVER!
Wow, progressives and GOP do agree sometimes ... they want to START OVER! Kill the Bill!
Now, who are the winners if the HCR Bill gets killed?
(1) Health Insurance Companies - Status quo and loving it.
(2) Health Insurance Lobby - Wow these guys are smart. There are many ways to skin a cat and they somehow get the Left and Right to sing their tune. They get what they want because they know the SYSTEM and HOW TO PLAY TO WIN.
WONDER WHY HEALH INSURANCE COs DARED TO RAISE PREMIUMS BY 39% in the midst of all this? Because they know they will win as they work the POLITICAL DIVIDE OF THIS NATION.
(3) GOP - They will surely win come Nov and perhaps 2012. Hmm ... to all those Single Payer and Public Option advocates ... any chance of GOP fighting for their causes?
(4) Single Payer Advocates - Ah ... maybe ... guessing here ... Health Care will become worst in years to come and they get to raise more money fighting for a great cause?
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My dear friends, we must accept that this is the reality of our politics. Even as everyone agrees that we need a single payer system, we can never get there.
Pro-Life Conservative democrats can justify killing it by using abortion issues as screen. Stupak is
GOP will shout Socialized Health Care (hint race) and will win support of rednecks (even as they love Medicare and suffer from lack of health care.)
Some Single Payer Democrats will continue to win convenient votes by fighting for a single payer system that they know will never get done.
The Insurance Industry is making billions of dollars for more than a century now.
They have bought over many politicians, the Media, Lobbies and PR. These are VERY VERY SMART people who knows how to play AMERICA to achieve their goals.
Like, somehow they can get Progressives (who want Single Payer) and GOP (who are owned by Insurance cos) to KILL A HCR BILL that many experts and progressives agreed will be good real reform though not good enough.
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I think we are being played by SOME EVERY SMART PEOPLE WHO KNOWS HOW TO WORK THE SYSTEM, PLAY OUR POLITIC DIVIDE and GET US TO MOVE AGAINST OUR OWN INTERESTS.
I think we Progressive ideals will be dead for many many years to come if we let the Health Bill gets killed, if we let President Obama fails and if we let true progressive democrats fail.
Thank you.