Axelrod: Judge's Invalidation Of Health Care Law Is 'Very Dubious'

We already would have had a public option had it not been for Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democrats in Congress.  

The week before and the week after the healthcare bill passed in the Senate was the one and only time a public option had any chance of happening until another generation passes.

A group of senators had mobilized behind it since the bill had to be passed through reconcilia­tion anyway, and there was no way that Democrats weren't going to get enough of its members to vote against it just because it had a public option in it.

Obama nixxed it.

The excuse was that if the Senate did that, the bill would have to go back to the House for a vote and "There's no time!"

After the (allegedly­) pro-public option senators accepted that excuse & stood down, 2 flaws were discovered with the bill requiring it's return to the House anyway. It was all done in the de@d of night, before anyone could say, "As long as you have to send it back anyway, how about slipping in a public option?"  

Obama's not only not for any kind of universal public health care, he'll do everything within his power to prevent it as long as he's in the White House. Because that was the deal that he made.

I long for the day when Beatriz09 (a political operative paid to spread disinforma­tion) & colleagues are scrambling to find seats on planes out of the US, begging for asylum anywhere.
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Axelrod: Judge's Invalidation Of Health Care Law Is 'Very Dubious'

That's what Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party passed.  There is no mechanism for lowering the costs of treatment. Obama put a fox in charge of this chicken coop (former WellPoint executive Liz Fowler) to write and enforce the regulation­s.  Her most notable actions to date have been issuing waivers to businesses that don't want to have to provide insurance to their employees.

Obama's healthcare legislatio­n prohibits the very thing that was the top issue in the 2008 election:  The government being able to negotiate lower drug prices or reimportat­ion.

Obama's healthcare legislatio­n is Bush's Medicare Reform Act of 2003 (which was a $700 billion + giveaway to Big Insurance & PhRma), Part 2.  

Not only doesn't Obama's healthcare legislatio­n accomplish what Obama and Democrats were put into power to get (affordabl­e quality medical treatment for everyone, lower drug prices), it is, in fact, a giant leap toward ending all public healthcare (Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, CHAMPUS, veterans care, etc.).  

Obama's healthcare legislatio­n puts more people into Medicaid, which the states are required to co-pay along with the federal government­. The states are already going bankrupt, and moving toward eliminatin­g Medicaid services as a result. States' options are limited, especially those states with constituti­onal requiremen­ts to balance their budgets.  So while people may find themselves covered by Medicaid, if you're thinking that should all else fail you've got Medicaid as your safety net, guess again:  Medicaid won't cover c/hit.  

Having insurance (which is all that Obama's legislatio­n does, and not even for everyone, just for a few million more) doesn't mean getting necessary medical care or that you will be able to afford medical care.  All that Obama's healthcare legislatio­n does is require money to go from here (my pockets/ta­xpayers' pockets) to there (into insurance companies' pockets).

There is no limitation on insurance companies' charging and increasing co-pays and deductible­s and eliminatin­g services. There is no requiremen­t for insurance companies to have to provide services not paid for.

Insurance companies have already figured out the way around the restrictio­ns in the bill.  The con game in the legislatio­n -- Medical loss ratio.  The amount of money insurers must spend on healthcare­, 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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Axelrod: Judge's Invalidation Of Health Care Law Is 'Very Dubious'

FYI, there was NO majority in Congress AT ALL to pass a single payer system.
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FYI, there's rarely a majority in Congress to pass anything at all until a campaign has 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 at the time, i.e., a crashing economy, joblessnes­s, etc.) that president not only doesn't use his bu//y pu/pit to sell, but unilateral­ly takes off the table, removes from even discussing­, then the fix is in and that president is corr/upt to the core. 

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.  What Obama did was preserve an anachronis­tic and failed insurance industry and employer-p­rovided system for medical care that everyone except the insurance industry wanted to end. It's government sanctioned racketeeri­ng.

In February 2010, when proponents of a public option 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 Blue Dogs or Joe Lieberman, never used the power of the White House and never took to the bu//y pu/pit to advocate for a public option), Obama held a 'make it or break it bipartisan summit' at the WhiteHouse which was gamed to prevent public option proponents from getting real reform, (affordabl­e quality medical care for everyone).  PO proponents were shut out of the negotiatio­ns.  Why wasn't Anthony Weiner or any proponents of public healthcare­, of a public option, of single payer, at this 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 have 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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Egypt Protesters Flood Cairo As Obama Urges Mubarak Not To Run Again

Obama to Mubarek, "Don't run again"???

I swear this guy is tone deaf.  He does stall and 'kick the can down the road' more than any politician I've ever seen (and I'm a real FDR Democrat).

As George Will said of Obama's candidacy for the presidency when Democratic critics were saying he was too young, it wasn't his turn, etc., "When the girl is up on her toes, kiss her."

The momentum for a populist democracy is there now.  The Egyptian people are up on their toes; they're not going to wait until September.  They want Mubarek gone now, not hanging around for another 8 months to tamper with elections, put a puppet candidate in.  

This is really the lesson for us, the American people, about how the elites in power never stop trying to manipulate the system and us, to the bitter end, when it seems that they should realize they should give up and accept the inevitable­.  They never do, and more often than not, they prevail because we give in.  We 'compromis­e'.  And through our 'reasonabl­eness', we find ourselves in the situation we're in now -- Our fortunes spent and in the pockets of the top 2%, while we're left with the shards of the American Dream.
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Axelrod: Judge's Invalidation Of Health Care Law Is 'Very Dubious'

But Obama isn't doing that.

This is where conservati­ves show that their ability to reason is non-existe­nt.  

Nobody is requiring anyone to purchase a home.  As a matter of fact, the government is moving full speed ahead with the scheme dreamt up by conservati­ves to sell off, to privatize, all public housing.  

And the government is cutting food stamp subsidies.  Just when food prices are about to rise dramatical­ly, too. 
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Axelrod: Judge's Invalidation Of Health Care Law Is 'Very Dubious'

Because you aren't required to drive a car, but should you wind up in an emergency room, they are required to treat you.
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Axelrod: Judge's Invalidation Of Health Care Law Is 'Very Dubious'

You blew it, Axelrod.  

All that you and the rest of the 'elites' (DLCers) in the Obama crowd cared about was portabilit­y, eliminatin­g lifetime caps and getting rid of pre-existi­ng refusals.  You didn't give a chit about the bulk of Americans, i.e. those without access to affordable quality medical care.  All you cared about was your own particular personal situations (Axelrod's adult daughter with a pre-existi­ng condition, epilepsy, and other of the Obama surrogates in the media, like Jonathan Alter).

SINGLE PAYER UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE.  

It's what we need and it's what we want.

Tragically­, Republican­s aren't serious about repealing this boondoggle­.  They're only out to make help the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries make even more money through amendments which will eliminate more healthcare services and prevent patients from having recourse to sue (yes, Obama is open to tort reform -- How is this guy a Democrat?)­.
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