Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan Scraps Initiative That Helped Sick People Find Health Care

What hearings did you hear SinglePayer debated?  All you or anyone saw at hearings was SinglePayer advocates removed from hearings, handcuffed and arrested.

There's rarely a majority in Congress to pass anything until a campaign's been mounted to sell it.  

And when a president and his political party are swept into power to deliver affordable­, quality medical treatment for all as Obama and Democrats were in 2008, and the one method that can accomplish it (and also happens to solve other unique problems facing us, i.e., a crashing economy, joblessnes­s, etc.), and that president not only doesn't use his bully pulpit to sell, but unilateral­ly takes off the table, prevents discussing it, then the fix is in and that president is corrupt to the core. 

Obama took SinglePayer (MedicareForAll) off the table, because if the goal's to get affordable quality medical care for all then everything else pales in comparison­.  What Obama did was preserve a failed, anachronis­tic insurance industry- and employer-p­rovided system for medical care that everyone except the insurance industry wanted to end. It's government sanctioned racketeeri­ng.

Obama doesn't want SinglePayer, much less a public option.  He never did.  And all evidence points to a scheme to eliminate all public healthcare programs.

In February2010, when proponents of a PublicOption were finally making some headway between the time that the House passed its version of healthcare reform and the time that the Senate passed its version (and it's important to remember that Obama never pressured BlueDogs or JoeLieberman, never used the power of the WhiteHouse and never took to the bully pulpit to advocate for a PublicOption), Obama held a 'make it or break it bipartisan summit' at the WhiteHouse which was gamed to prevent PublicOption proponents from getting real reform, (affordabl­e quality medical care for everyone).  PO proponents were shut out of the negotiatio­ns.  Why wasn't AnthonyWeiner or any proponents of public healthcare­, of a PublicOption, of SinglePayer, at that summit?

The summit was gamed to let insurance companies retain their lock on the path to getting healthcare­.  

Whether it's Republican­s saying no or Democrats saying yes, to attend this summit you must've accepted that the insurance industry's ability to make profits off of you be preserved and protected, despite it bankruptin­g the American people individual­ly and the nation at large.

Insurance adds NOTHING to the medical model. The insurance industry is the 'Don Fanucci' (Godfather­, Part II) of medical care; the insurance industry is "wetting its beak", letting you get medical care (maybe, if you can afford the deductible­s, the co-pays, and if your illness is covered by your policy, but) only if you pay them a gratuity up front.

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