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Baltimore Sun Explains Why Our Government Is Stopping Single Payer Healthcare
Posted by BuelahMan on July 20, 2009
The Baltimore Sun has a piece that dissects and explains why our government, especially the Demorats and the House Leader is saying no to Single payer, not for profit healthcare. Please read the entire piece, but here is a snippet:
The House plan is not set to go “live” until January of 2013. No, that is not a typo.
If I told you that in less than a year after the historic Medicare legislation was signed into law, the program was up and running, and millions of older Americans had been enrolled and were getting health care with hardly a hiccup, wouldn’t you wonder why it’s going to take so long to get essential elements of this version of reform in place? Wouldn’t you wonder why the elements that are designed to help the millions of uninsured are the ones that are going to take the longest to implement?
Or, maybe, you wondered if there’s a political reason why the plan won’t be fully operational until 2013, like the fact that we will have a presidential election in November of 2012, and it might not be good for the fortunes of the current president or the senators and representatives up for re-election if a new health care system is not going well or is not all it was advertised to be.
The rest explains exactly the reason (and below is the tag line). Political posturing while protecting the Health Insurance Companies:
What this is really all about, where the focus should have been from the start, is health care, not insurance. Having a shiny new insurance policy will not help if the out-of-pocket costs are such that people still cannot afford to see the doctor or get the medications they need.
And yes, that is the reason. It is about protecting Health “Insurance” and they care little about Health “Care”. Please think about the timing here. Think about the fact that they want to force people to buy insurance they can’t afford as it is.
I hope you all wake up to this, especially those of you who have clout.
kelsosnuts said
If you weren’t banned from C & L, you could have a lot of fun with this over there!
I’m not going to bother visiting to see if they’ve penned a letter of apology to Representatives Polis, Lujan, Massa, etc., because I know they haven’t. I know that if there are any complaints they involve shit about “party politics standing in the way of courageous Barack Obama’s efforts to MAKE REAL CHANGES.” LMJAO!