Could we please get off torture for a little while and look forward? Keep our eyes on the prize here?
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says the insurance companies are gearing up for a smear campaign against a public health plan:
Krugman: “What if interest groups showed up at the big table, then blocked reform? Back then, Mr. Obama assured voters that he would get tough: “If those insurance companies and drug companies start trying to run ads with Harry and Louise, I’ll run my own ads as president. I’ll get on television and say ‘Harry and Louise are lying.’ ”
“The question now is whether he really meant it.
“The medical-industrial complex has called the president’s bluff. It polished its image by showing up at the big table and promising cooperation, then promptly went back to doing all it can to block real change. The insurers and the drug companies are, in effect, betting that Mr. Obama will be afraid to call them out on their duplicity.”
Let’s hope not.
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From Julie H:
As a psychologist trained in behaviorism, I can tell you
very precisely how to get government to respond to citizen
needs on health care, economic reform, whatever we want.
It’s called the Golden Rule: He who supplies the gold makes
the rules. Who supplies the gold, i.e. the campaign funding,
right now? Big corporations. Who gets precisely what they
want in health care, economic legislation etc.? The big
corporations who finance Congressional election campaigns.
When taxpayers and voters start paying for campaign financing,
then we will start making Congress pass the laws that WE want.
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