Looks like health care reform will be about protecting the insurance companies

[edhopper]

You would hope it would be about making sure all Americans have health care coverage. So something like single payer would be an option worth looking at.
But it seems the main priority that is at work in Congress is to make sure the insurance companies survive with as little harm to their bottom line as possible.
It's still their country, we just have to live in it.

[leftstreet]

1. The Insurance Pharmaceutical Congressional Complex

Almost as beloved by our (er, their) representatives as the Wall Street Banksters!

[metapunditedgy]

2. Corporations only exist on paper, so whose bottom line are we _really_ protecting? n/t

[edhopper]

3. The top

5% oligarchy.

[L0oniX]

13. 1800 of them have Cayman Island addresses for tax evasion purposes..

[Coyote_Bandit]

4. Give me a candidate in the next election

who supports single payer and I will throw every fucking incumbent who fails to make that same commitment under the bus. Every damn one of the spineless bought and paid for selfish bastards. I have no loyalties or obligation to advance the cause of those who do not serve my interests.

[nxylas]

8. We had one at the last election

Sadly, Dennis Kucinich was thrown under the bus long before the others were.

[Coyote_Bandit]

9. Yes

Had I had the choice in the primaries I would have voted for Kucinich. My only choice was between Hillary and Obama. There were other candidates - including Kucinish - that I preferred over either of them.

Sometimes I really wish we had a national primary day. No reason why my vote shouldn't have as much value as a vote in Iowa or New Hampshire. But apparently it doesn't.

Kucinich is one Dem leader for whom I some respect. Can't say so much for most of the others.

[Tesha]

10. You understand that such a candidate *WON'T* be acceptable here at DU or amidst the rest of...

...the DLC crowd, right? You'll be accused of being a "Naderite" or
something equally nasty. And, indeed, it's likely that such a candidate
*WON'T* be a Democrat.

Tesha

[L0oniX]

14. Voting anti incumbent Dem is my plan.

[Joanne98]

5. The Conservadems are protecting the banksters and the drug dealers.

:mad:

[edhopper]

6. And the Progressives

are not given a voice at the table.

[OneBlueSky]

7. nothing like building on a dysfunctional system . . .

probably gets us an even more dysfunctional system . . . ho hum . . .

[Mark Twain Girl]

11. Kick of agreement and sheer disgust. nt

[snowdays]

12. congresscritters and their families have their insurance. the hell

with the little people.