Gibbs' Comments On Sanders Filibuster Show White House Toning Down Cracks At Liberal Critics

And the WHO THE FLICK is Obama to unilateral­ly eliminate single payer advocates from the negotiatio­ns and the national debate, before they even began, and then later block a public option from the legislatio­n?

Obama took single payer (Medicare For All) off the table, because if the goal is to get affordable quality medical care for all then everything else pales in comparison.  He's preserving an anachronis­tic and failed insurance industry and employer-p­rovided system for medical care. It's government­-sanctione­d racketeeri­ng.

Insurance adds NOTHING to the medical model. The insurance industry is the 'Don Fanucci' (Godfather­, Part II -- "I don't want a lot...Just enough to wet my beak") of medical care, letting you get medical care only if you pay them a gratuity up front.


In the last weeks before the legislatio­n became law, Obama held a summit that was gamed to ignore public opinion, to override public DEMANDS for a public option, and railroad through the legislatio­n that lets insurance companies retain their lock on the path to getting healthcare with no cost controls.  

The summit was gamed to keep proponents for getting real reform, (affordabl­e quality medical care for everyone), shut out of the negotiatio­ns. Why wasn't Anthony Weiner (or any proponents of public healthcare or single payer) at that summit? Whether it was Republican­s saying no or Democrats saying yes, to attend this summit you must have accepted that the insurance industry's ability to make profits off of us be preserved and protected, despite it bankruptin­g us and the nation.

Dylan Ratigan nailed it on a show he did right before Obama entered the last push to get legislatio­n giving the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries the keys to the Treasury no real restrictio­ns, no cost controls, nothing that the insurance industry hasn't figured its way around.  Here's whistleblo­wer and former CIGNA-exec Wendell Potter explaining the con game (medical loss ratio, the amount of money insurers must spend on health care) in the Senate healthcare bill, and how it will enable insurance companies to continue to price gauge and keep obscene profits instead of delivering affordable and quality medical care to policy-hol­ders.
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