Reply #42: The comparison to Social Security & Medicare is invalid. [View All]

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Those are public programs; if they were based on the values that inform the Seante health care bill, they would force people to invest on Wall Street for their retirement, and buy private health insurance, respectively. As it is, the Senate health care bill caters to the predatory, price-gouging greedheads of big insurance and PhRMA, and will disillusion the Democratic base, along with less ideological folks in the middle who want practical solutions that favor ordinary people and don't give away the store to corporations. Americans are in a dark and angry mood about the depredations of the corporate world and its near hegemony in our politics, and if Democrats don't do a better job addressing these issues, 2010 will be fought out on issues more congenial to the GOP--their usual diversionary crap about identity, resentment, fear of big gummint, etc.