tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173940490303025576.post1185965566174182205..comments2023-10-21T05:55:59.422-04:00Comments on BarackObama666: Barack Obama's Health Care Reform...Not So Much ReformPubliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16915351885679876346noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173940490303025576.post-83692840046086347562010-03-27T11:02:56.361-04:002010-03-27T11:02:56.361-04:00It seems all reform has been sabotaged.
There is...It seems all reform has been sabotaged.<br /><br /> There is just enormous amounts of money being poured into lobbying in Washington on behalf of the financial services company. $150 million in 2009 went into lobbying from the commercial banks and the investment banks. Now, that doesn't talk about real estate, that doesn't talk about the insurance companies, it doesn't talk about mutual funds. That's just commercial banks and investment banks. $150 million spent lobbying. That is a powerful force.<br /><br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/yfwyb7oAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173940490303025576.post-40537403426964869382010-03-25T17:33:23.437-04:002010-03-25T17:33:23.437-04:00I am not a proponent of socialist health care, but...I am not a proponent of socialist health care, but I know it when I see it and this isn't it.<br /><br />It doesn't guarantee universal health care.<br />It doesn't have single-payer health care.<br />It doesn't have a public option.<br />It will force people to buy products from private corporations that will continue to be exempt from anti-trust laws.<br /><br />Here is a footnoted fact sheet compiled by a group that desperately wanted a socialist version of health care reform and protested the bill that was passed to the end:<br /><br />Fact Sheet - The Truth About the Health Care Bill<br /><br />Truth http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/0 ... care-bill/<br /><br />The HCR bill is, at its heart, an insurance company bailout bill. If it were a socialist bill, health care company stocks would be tanking, not soaring to their highest levels since the financial crisis began. The insurance companies desperately need a bailout due to not only the same types of bad assets that banks are hiding but also because with unemployment up (and not going down anytime soon) there are a lot less healthy people that they can collect premiums for. But after the bank bailout politicians knew that they wouldn't be able to pass it so they included it in a massive HCR bill. It's not socialism; it's just another example of crony capitalism brought to us by the corrupt politicians in Washington.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173940490303025576.post-65784745200885040932010-03-24T11:39:32.686-04:002010-03-24T11:39:32.686-04:00Chomsky: Health bill sustains the system’s core il...Chomsky: Health bill sustains the system’s core ills<br /><br />The decades-long critic of corporate power alleged that premiums won't stop rising as the package is designed in no small part to funnel money into the pockets of the health care industry. "The bill gives away a lot to insurance companies and big pharmaceutical corporations," he said.<br /><br />The legislation forbids government from negotiating prices with pharmaceutical companies or permitting the importation of drugs. Nor does it provide competition to private insurers, an oligopolistic industry that will maintain its impunity from antitrust laws. But despite this, Chomsky, an advocate for a single-payer system, said killing the bill wasn't a better solution.<br /><br />http://rawstory.com/2010/03/noam-chomsky-health-bill/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com