Sabotaging American Healthcare Reform....

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Have The Screamers And Sycophants (and their Big-Money Backers) Won?

Why yes.

It looks like they just may have:

"....According to The Associated Press, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is suggesting the White House is ready to accept nonprofit insurance cooperatives instead of a government-run public option in a health overhaul plan.

Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Ms. Sebelius says Mr. Obama still believes there should be choice and competition” in the health insurance market — but that a public option is “not the essential element...."

This is very, very, very bad indeed.


The following is a comment I left on a very good post from Kirk Murphy, a real live doctor who was willing to compromise, downward, from Universal/Single Payer to Public Option previously, over at Firedoglake:

"What I think folks (in the States) need to realize is that, regardless future political situations (ie. even with a hammerhead majority in both houses and the WH), if you all lose on this one based on the ’successful’ use of the tactics used here….

Well.

You’ll never win.

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(In Canada, we did not get Universal Healthcare because of the federal government of the day rammed it through…..Instead, we got it because a very vocal progressive minority pushed and pushed and pushed and pushed in just one province against all odds…..And guess what, the guy leading that minority was Jack Bauer’s grandfather!)

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Amy Goodman talked about the KSutherland/TDouglas Connection recently here."

OK?

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