Think how so many of the health insurance ills would vanish if the profit motive (and humongous CEO payments) were removed.  It’s the for-profit instigations that cause so much evil connected with our health care.  Nor to omit the disgusting falsehoods being spread far and wide and the ownership of our politicians by the fat cat Big Health.

I doubt we get an accurate picture of the will of the nation on this topic. Our once proud press focuses only upon the loudest and most extreme comments while the great majority is unheard. So it is quite possible, probable even if one considers the majority of our fellow citizens as reasonable and intelligent folks, that the concept of health care for all is a popular one. Polls do seem to indicate that an overwhelming number of us want single payer care.

When one actually sees the health care received by the majority of industrialized nations through the prism of clarity and not the lens of self interest as the insurance industry portrays it, the conclusion is pretty darn obvious. Single payer care is the most efficient, the most inclusive and the least expensive.

Passing intelligent and efficient health care reform is only a problem because our politicians are dependent upon the campaign contributions of the health care industry, as they are wedded to the junkets to exotic locales and the rest of the perks a dishonest system provides.

You’ve got to read the fine print:

“But Harkin also said he was open to legislation that includes health care co-ops, as long as they are offered as a choice alongside a public option.”

We shouldn’t be open to anything but real honest to God universal health care. There’s not going to be a real “public option” that’s worth anything come out of this house of clowns. Stop all these meaningless deadlines. August doesn’t mean anything, Thanksgiving doesn’t mean anything and Christmas doesn’t mean anything. “Bipartisanship” doesn’t mean anything. Take the time to design a real national health care system that works for the citizens or shut up.

I could do it in 5 minutes.  Open up Medicare to anyone who wants to enroll for a reasonable cost.  Leave private health insurance alone. Let them and their customers do whatever they want to. Don’t require or “mandate” anyone to do anything. Let it shake out however it will.

Problem solved. Now can I please have Tom Harkin’s salary before I get my truck repoed and get evicted?

thanks,
Lost Hills

I sure hope he’s right. But I’m not at all confident. The right wing idiot fear-
stoking machine is so very potent.

My own sister, who lives in Tennessee and deserves it, has totally bought the Fox
Noise crap. I’m afraid that she’s quite representative of the “heartland” dolts who
are combining their depressingly numerous and dysfunctional intellects to defeat
the public option.