Heath Care Super Bowl: Private Insurer-In-Chief Argues With Jackals

    For 7/1/2 hours on Thursday President Obama argued with Republican leaders over a heatlh care reform bill that leaves 23 million uninsured, places no caps on premiums for older Americans plus those with pre-existing conditions, enacts a 40% excise tax on individuals with top-shelf  health insurance plans worth $24,000/yr or more, makes it nearly impossible for women to get abortions through private insurance coverage, and quite likely includes cuts in popular Medicare programs.  Single-payer and public option advocates were not invited to the table.  My question to the Republican leadership is what’s there not to like? Obama taking credit for this travesty? Of course! This is the result of a bought-off Congress taking $1.4 million a day from private-insurer lobbyists for months on end pretending to cross swords over the best way to deliver tens of billions of dollars in profit to the existing  health care monopoly. I actually agree with the GOP that the bill should be scrapped, but not for piece-meal legislation that will do nothing to stop the Wellpoints of the world from raising premiums by 39% because of “soaring costs” while their top executives take a cue from the financial services industry and receive hundreds of millions in undeserved bonuses.  Apparently “bonus envy”  is a supreme motivating factor among our corporate elites, all jockeying for recognition by Obama the Private-Insurer King as great guys who deserve over-the-top compensation just like baseball players. What has our inverted totalitarian debt- state come to? Hopefully a sizeable protion of the sentient public can see this bullshit for what it is even if we’re all just riding on the Titanic.

      As that Peoples’ Soviet-smasher V.I. Lenin used to say, “What Is To Be Done?” Shake off your lethargy, America!  Scream, Rant and Rave at your senators and reps, let them know you’re in on the scam and next year a new corporate-approved toady will be souring the milk of  late-stage capitalism! Above all, you in the middle-class, Lie, Cheat and Steal to get the best health care you can for you and your loved ones. Me, I’m poor; I’ll get mine!