Crooks and Liars points out the new "scare" words are "Federalized healthcare." As if the government is going to be administering our shots--that is not what a single-payer system is. Medicare is a single-payer system and it is something like 30 times more efficient than HMOs. HMOs claim that they are more effcient by hiring non-union, non-living wage paid employees, and then they blow that (in my mind) socially unethical "efficiency" by paying their CEOs millions of dollars. Great plan! The rich get rich, the laborers get screwed, and we get kicked off the insurance rolls!! THAT'S private insurance. No thanks...I want a single-payer system before I turn 40, and that's not long.
So here is our monkey-in-chief doing the bidding of the insurance industries and acting as if medical innovation is tied to greed (how would he know that, he's greedy and hasn't innovated anything useful). Even if it is to some extent, I think we can stand to leave true medical innovation to the altruistic innovators, expand the number of government scientists and the academics, reward the great ones! I just suspect they'll have more drive and focus on the issues that really hurt us, not just the ones that turn a profit.
Peace.
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And meanwhile, urbankpink, Cheney gets the best of care for his heart condition. Curious, though. I'm not sure he has one.
Great rant post. I agree with you completely.
Do I actually see you linked to Greg Palast!? He's one of my favorites.
You know a journalist hit a nerve when he gets subpoened by the federal government for reporting. Great taste, urbanpink.
"As if the government is going to be administering our shots..."?
As opposed to an insurance agent/clerk/adjuster?
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