Medicare in Crisis: The Devastating Impacts of a Corporate Health Care Bill by Shamus Cooke

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Wading through the endless debate over health care has exhausted the patience of most Americans — the zigzags, obscure language, and long-winded discussion is inherently repulsive. But now the dust is starting to settle, and the Congressional vision for health care in the U.S. is emerging. Instead of being “progressive,” it will amount to a massive, corporate-inspired attack on American workers, the elderly, and the poor. After months of confusion and delay, Congress has shipwrecked the popular energy over health care onto the jagged rock of corporate interests. More spectacularly, health care “reform” is being used as an opportunity to greatly advance corporate influence over social spheres long-dedicated to the working-class — seemingly harmless provisions carry with them enormous implications. These devils hide in the details of the competing health care bills in Congress; both contain debilitating right-wing policies hidden within a progressive shell. Obama is indeed acting as the agent of change, to the great benefit of the U.S. corporate elite. And although the final bill has yet to be crafted, there exists general agreements as to what the end version will look like. Americans will be forced to buy shoddy corporate insurance with no limit to the cost, no guarantee of quality, with large premiums and other tricks to further gouge consumers.---
tags: healthcare reform abysmal failure, obama
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  1. #1    If a public option emerges in the final bill — by no means a guarantee — it will be shrunken enough to insure very few people (2 percent of the U.S. population). But it gets worse. How this health care “reform” will be paid for has implications that dwarf the above atrocities.



    For example, the Democrats were determined to pass a health care bill that “will not add one cent to the deficit.” And they have succeeded: the House and Senate health care bills both plan to reduce the deficit by over $100 billion. But a second-grader could do the math here: more service does not equal less cost — a truism that dominates the for-profit health care industry.



    So how...

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    written by Sparrows since 73 days 14 hours 51 minutesSparrows
  2. #2    I think if we think that any of us will be seeing healthcare in our lifetimes is in for a very sorry SURPRISE. We should have left this stinkin piece of legislation alone. We would have been better off w/o it. Yes, even those that were not already insured.
    written by Sparrows since 73 days 14 hours 50 minutesSparrows
  3. #3    @#2 - Absolutely correct.

    Obama-care is a trillion dollar tax on working poor Americans. 90% of the proceeds go to the insanely rich health mafia CEOs, and 10% goes to reducing the deficit so that the Dimocraps can spend more on banksters and war profiteers. Obama-care fines and taxes millions of working poor Americans while providing absolutely no health care in return.

    Obama-care spells the end of the anti-abortion anti-women anti-union pro-Wall-Street pro-war and totally fascist Dimocrap party - and that's the only good thing to come out of Obama-care.
    written by Mike5000 since 73 days 13 hours 15 minutesMike5000
  4. #4    And Obama does nothing but talk!

    Do we really need any more evidence that Obama is tainted? He's selling us all out for thirty pieces of corporate silver.
    written by neoconned since 72 days 22 hours 39 minutesneoconned
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