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Well, the imaginary line has been crossed. It appears that there isn't going to be a public option in the health care reform bill. Even though, there never has BEEN a real public option in the health insurance reform bill, it seems that the removal of the policy of false witness that bears its name has awoken some slumbering democrats to the harsh realities of this reform. The democrats have thrown in with the health insurance companies and big pharm, and the people are going to be left at the mercy of highly unethical, corrupt, and merciless corporations who care not a wit about human life.
To put it bluntly, they have negotiated the very LIVES of their constituents for the promise of continued financial support from the health care industry.
This week, we had to endure an Orwellian speech from President Obama written to rationalize his decision to send additional troops into Afghanistan while he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. It was a sad spectacle to watch the President use his considerable ability as a Orator to defend his expansion of a unjust war, by making the argument that some war are just and necessary. Which may be true, but not in the case of the war he choose to escalate. Afghanistan is a war of choice, fought in a faraway land for the worst of reasons.
If Obama truly wanted a just war, he might have turned his eyes back to the homeland and declared war on the corporate entities that kill Americans right here at home. The current for-profit health care industry kills an estimated 44,000 Americans, each and every year. Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, if not millions more suffer from severely reduced quality of life due to being unable to afford the care or medications they need. Millions are financially ruined and lose their homes.
He might have called out the Mafiaoso Drug Cartel know as the Pharmeceutical Industry and declared war on the pillaging of the sick and destitute, by this gang of criminal thugs.
But, no. Obama didn't EVER try to fight these entities. Instead, he joined them in back room negotiations and bargained away our health and lives, in exchange for pseudo-reform that ultimately will not fix the health care crisis, but escalate it. The pharmaceutical companies have already recouped their promised 10 billion in savings over the next ten years by raising the price of prescription drugs this year. The insurance companies are expunging patients whom they believe will decrease their bottom line by the hundreds of thousands, as they prepare to receive billions in taxpayer subsidies.
The President and this democratic congress (with the exception of a very few brave soldiers) refused to fight the real battle that needed to be fought. It would not have required weapons or the need for a single death and it could have potentially saved millions of lives.
It would have taken political courage. It would have taken moral courage. It would have required placing human life over industry profit.
Instead, they choose to cohort with the enemy and mandate this murderous system.
Just like they did with the mega-banks and Wall Street....
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