2012 Medicare Debate: Baby Boomers At Center Of Issue

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 profession­al politician­s, 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 experience­d 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, 'preemptiv­e wars'.  Unless and until we accept that the system is irretrieva­bly broken and irrevocabl­y 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.
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