Clearly, what these Senators do privately and what they truly believe and stand for remain hidden, at this juncture. Bernie’s public option amendment, if it is not undone by a cruel act of the parliamentarian, provides us with the knowledge we need to cast appropriate votes in upcoming primaries and in November.

We will know better that when Senators cast votes,they are taking care of, and protecting, their own interests, which in most cases, have little or nothing to do with the interests of the average American.

Many of these so-called democratic senators are millionaires wishing to be billionaires, so their votes are designed to religiously protect and secure the gifts and cash they obtain from insurance and pharmaceutical companies, as well as from the health care industry in general, through the corrupt mechanism known as legal bribery.

Bernie’s amendment simply creates a much more difficult set of circumstances in which these Senators must attempt to secure their privately agreed-upon corporate benefits because it forces a public vote on an issue widely popular with their constituents.

As such, any vote for the public option amendment could very well wipe out hundreds of thousands of dollars, or perhaps millions over time, attained through bribery. This vote pleases most of the Senators’ constituents, but simultaneously, makes them targets of the mafias and mercenaries of the insurance and pharmaceutical corporations.

Votes against the public option amendment make the culprits targets of vast swaths of the American people, but would most certainly secure corporate benefits.

Therefore, any vote (yes or no) cast on the issue of whether a robust public option ought to become a part of the current Senate Bill is likely to prove dangerous. And that is precisely why most democratic senators, including those who are on record as supporters of the public option, will surreptitiously do everything in their power to prevent an up or down vote on the public option amendment, for they are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

I support single payer. I have read comment after positive comment from people living in Europe who have socialized medicine and are happy with it. Why is it they have it and we don’t? Could it be we are so brainwashed to hate labels like “socialism” that we have forgotten to look up in a neutral dictionary what it really means? What is wikipedia for? Socialism ain’t all that bad! It sure beats anarchy, Plutocracy, or Corporatism, which is what we have now. That is government of the rich/Corporate, by the rich/Corporate, and for the rich/Corporate. Anarchy is more like what they have had in Haiti, but it seems to be what the Tea-Party wants: NO Government.

Jesus gave away his healing services. GAVE FREELY! Health is a right, not a privilege. Life is what God has given us. It is a right, not a privilege! If Jesus were here today and saw what we are doing, he would overturn the moneychanger’s tables again, this time at the insurance companies! Why are we so afraid to follow him?