Filibuster Reform: Senators Reportedly Close To Deal On Modest Limits
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Yes. On not getting Democratic voters' objectives met.
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Rush Limbaugh Abortion Idiocy Revealed
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Obama is the military. He's the CiC. And the refusal comes directly through the White House and the petition system that they've instituted.
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Obama's Post-Partisan Promise Mellows Amid First Term Gridlock
Monday, January 21, 2013
FWIW, healthcare providers (the people who are actually providing the healthcare to patients) haven't had a raise in close to 20 years.
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.Then there are the shareholders.
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Obama's Post-Partisan Promise Mellows Amid First Term Gridlock
If the Tea Party was any serious threat, Obama would have been running against Michelle Bachman or Rick Santorum in the general election.
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Obama's Post-Partisan Promise Mellows Amid First Term Gridlock
Obama never wanted a public option or single payer. But to get both off the table, he had to do it in stages. Single payer first, with big talk about "I will not sign any legislation that doesn't include a robust public option". That had to happen right off the bat, before negotiations even began. To make sure that there wouldn't be a public option in any final legislation (and that there really wouldn't be any reform of the system, that the insurance and pharmaceutical industries would continue to be able to make massive profits), single payer had to be taken off the table before negotiations ever began. Out of sight, out of mind. And that's exactly what Obama did.
Once that happened, then a public option was used as a bargaining chip, to be given up, and we know that from several sources, including Tom Daschle and Richard Kirsch.
A caller on CSpan not long ago asked Richard Wolffe, who was out plugging his latest book written from his special access to the Obama White House, if we're ever going to get a public option to keep costs down.
Wolffe makes it clear that Obama and the DLC-controlled Democrats never had any intention of going with a public option or expanding public healthcare in any way (although Wolffe is mistaken when he says that Obama never ran on supporting a public option -- Not only did Obama campaign on "a public option", he campaigned on single payer, universal health care -- Here's a campaign ad featuring Obama himself -- See the part where he says he has a plan to "cover everyone'? That's 'universal coverage' -- There's even a graphic in the ad that says "The Obama Plan - UNIVERSAL coverage for all Americans". Obama ran against mandates, and criticized Hillary for them in her campaign promises -- Here is Candidate Obama on mandates -- Here again -- Obama campaigned on public option).
When you follow this closely, when you see enough examples, it's impossible to think Obama is a man of character and integrity, in this business for the People.
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Obama's Post-Partisan Promise Mellows Amid First Term Gridlock
there is no public option because Obama gave up on that without a fight in a futile effort to appease the GOP.==========================
It had nothing to do with appeasing the GOP. There is no public option because the insurance industry didn't want one. Both political parties have signed on to privatizing all American resources and services, including ending government programs that aren't privatized (Social Security, Medicaid, etc.). That was the reason for making sure that single payer was off the table (and before the negotiations ever began) - So that any 'compromise' position couldn't include a public option.
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Obamacare 2013: Obama's Legacy Tied To Health Care Reform That Bears His Name
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Yes, nations with universal healthcare have the longest lifespans, but ACA is NOT universal healthcare.
health insurance ≠ medical treatment
Obama's healthcare legislation doesn't control costs and doesn't deliver medical treatment to everyone (not even those who think they're going to get it). Insurance companies aren't required to cover anyone's preexisting condition gratis. And between increased premium costs, deductibles and co-pays, ACA Unlikely to Stem Medical Bankruptcies
People who voted for Obama/Democrats voted to get affordable, quality medical treatment. That was NOT a vote to protect and further enrich the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. Voters didn't send Obama/Democrats into power to entrench the insurance industry as the gatekeepers to being able to get medical treatment. Voters didn't send Obama and Democrats to Washington to continue tying insurance benefits to their employment. Yet that's precisely what Obama and the DLC-controlled Democrats did.
Meet The New 1%: - Healthcare CEOs replace bankers as America's best paid:
Pity WallStreet's bankers. Once the highest-paid bosses in the land, they are now also-rans. The real money's in healthcare and drugs, according to the latest survey of executive pay. One example is JoelGemunder, CEO Omnicare, who had a total pay package in 2010 worth $98 million.
ACA's nothing more than a massive giveaway to the health insurance industry. It's one of the most corrupt pieces of legislation ever enacted by our government.
The health insurance industry provides no real service. All it does is take money out of the system. It's nothing more than a blood-sucking middleman.
Dr. MarciaAngell, a proponent of single payer universal health care, testifying before Congress as to the reason the system is in such a shambles:
"It's set up to generate profits NOT to provide care. To pay for care, we rely on hundreds of investor-owned insurance companies that profit by refusing coverage to the sickest patients and limiting services to the others. They cream roughly 20% off the top of the premium dollar for profits and overhead. Our method of delivering care's no better than our method of paying for it. We provide much of the care in investor-owned health facilities that profit by providing too many services for the well-insured and too few for those who cannot pay. Most doctors are paid fee-for-service which gives them a similar incentive to focus on profitable services, particularly specialists, who receive very high fees for expensive tests and procedures. In sum, healthcare's for maximizing income and not maximizing health..."
And ACA does nothing to change that.
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