I will be brief. I anticipate a barrage of fallacious debating technique sophistry, Ad hominem and a spirited, double talking, hair splitting, defense of these enemies of Medicare for All, firmly ensconced in the CORPORATE WING (i.e. DINO) of the Democratic Party. 😠
THESE are the people that GAVE the TRUMP FASCIST the victory in 2016. 😠
THESE are the people that lie 24/7 about “feeling our pain”, when they are 100% BOUGHT AND PAID FOR by empathy deficit disordered Corporate Chrony Capitalists, hell bent on keeping decent jobs, decent wages, decent health care, decent pensions, a decent environment and a real world Cost of Living Calculation Formula away from we-the-people. 🤬
In the first two months of 2019, the DCCC racked up almost $440,000 in donations from health insurance, oil, gas, and coal lobbyists. It’s no wonder they’re trying to undermine progressive candidates who support policies like the Green New Deal and Medicare for All.
If you think that is hyberbole or undeserved defamation of the Business 💵🎩 as Usual DCCC mens rea modus operandi, you are 100% WRONG.
Specifically, there are THREE people inside the Democratic Party Leadership doing MOST of the SABOTAGING of legislation supporting Medicare for All. They need to be stopped NOW.
If anyone here wishes to deny that, that is their problem. I won’t argue. ANYONE defending the Business 💵🎩 as Usual DCCC current corrupt status quo is not worthy of being argued with.
For those here who are reality based, the hard truth of CORRUPTION is IRREFUTABLY evidenced in the linked April 4, 2019 video and transcript below.
SNIPPET 1:
The Intercept had an interesting story how behind the scenes, Nancy Pelosi is actually meeting with–or her representatives are–meeting with the private insurance companies and saying, “Don’t worry, we who actually really run the Democratic Party are not interested in single payer Medicare for All style health care.” What do you know about this?
WENDELL POTTER: It’s terrific reporting by Ryan Grim at The Intercept. And it’s been verified that a guy named Wendell Primus, who is Pelosi’s chief healthcare policy guy, was meeting behind closed doors with health insurance company executives, more or less reassuring them that “not to worry, we’re not going to do anything that will bother your profits.” And even more recently, reports surfaced about his having yet another closed door meeting, this time with staff of Democrats in the House, essentially saying, “We know some of you guys have introduced and are cosponsoring a Medicare for All bill. Go slow on that. We’re not going to really pay any attention to that legislation.” So what’s behind this, quite frankly, is money in politics, Paul. Because a lot of the Democratic leaders have taken a boatload of money from the health insurance industry, from the pharmaceutical companies, and they don’t want that to end anytime soon.
SNIPPET 2:
PAUL JAY: Yeah. Let me say to our audience go, to Tarbell.org.👍👍👍 Because there’s an article there which actually lays out which of the Democrats have gotten money from the health care industry. You’ve done a lot of that kind of reporting.
WENDELL POTTER: We have. And we’re going to continue to take a close look at that. As we go through this election cycle, we’re going to continue to report on which Democrats are on the take, and there are a lot of them in the House in particular. Both in the House and the Senate, but it’s clear that those that have taken a lot of money–and one of those who has is a congresswoman from Illinois, Cheri Bustos, who is now the Chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
PAUL JAY: And if I remember from your article, she’s a former insurance executive as well. You guys went in kind of different directions.
WENDELL POTTER: Exactly. She and I had exactly the same title, Vice President of Corporate Communications. And yes, we went different directions. But she is one of the members of the House, the Democratic Caucus, who’s taken big checks from all five of the political action committees of the big for-profit insurance companies. And she’s, her own self, been throwing cold water on the idea of moving toward a Medicare for All type system. So she’s really carrying water for the health insurance industry.
Full video with transcript:
If you fine folks at Daily Kos don’t RAISE HOLY HELL to stop Pelosi et al from sabotaging Medicare for ALL, don’t complain if we lose AGAIN 🤬 to the TRUMP FASCIST in 2020.