People who voted for Obama and Democrats voted to get affordable, quality medical treatment. That was NOT a vote to protect and further enrich the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. Voters did NOT send Obama and Democrats into power to entrench the insurance industry as the gatekeepers to being able to get medical treatment. Voters did NOT send Obama and Democrats to Washington to continue tying insurance benefits to their employment.
Yet that is precisely what Obama and the DLC-controlled Democrats did.
Meet The New 1%: - Healthcare CEOs replace bankers as America's best paid:
Pity Wall Street's bankers. Once the highest-paid bosses in the land, they are now also-rans. The real money is in healthcare and drugs, according to the latest survey of executive pay. One example is Joel Gemunder, CEO Omnicare, who had a total pay package in 2010 worth $98 million.
The profession
al politician
s, on both sides of the aisle, are thrilled that they have us chasing our tails, fighting among ourselves for crumbs on a playing field and within terms set by the 1%.
This article is merely the first of many to 'break the ice' that the end of Medicare as we know it is just a matter of time, to wear us down and accept the inevitable
. We've already experience
d these tactics on a host of issues, from the erosion of our civil rights, the end of habeas corpus and due process, to unending war, 'preemptiv
e wars'. Unless and until we accept that the system is irretrieva
bly broken and irrevocabl
y weighted against the 99%, fixed to deliver to the richest few, our fates are sealed and our futures bleak.
Nothing is going to change until money is out of the political system; everything else is a distraction.Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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