Reply #26: Well I want Obama to succeed and if he listens to the profit side of the

[Cleita]

health care industry, this one mistake will be a big one because there are already petri dishes out there of experiments that have either succeeded or failed. Any time the insurers, HMOs and PhRMA are involved, the plans fail. When they are not in the equation the system is successful like in Canada, Australia and the European Scandinavian countries. I'm not putting up links because the internet is full of them if you want to look them up and Obama should too. There are prestigious organizations who have crunched numbers, not only the PNHP but the Institute of Health And Socio-Economic Policy and they have come out on the side of single payer health care when they thoroughly study the issue.

Now for saying that I disrespect him because I'm sounding an alarm about those who are advising him on this issue, is simply really not true. I know after surfing the internet for over a decade that more than 30% of the population actually needs to be in therapy and will not see the truth. Yet, for years and years, any poll I have seen that was taken before the insurance industry could propagandize the population were 70% in favor of doing this. When the naysayers and spinners arrived on the scene they could convince 20% of those in the seventy percent with a lot of slick scare tactics. It's war and I'm in the infantry on this issue, so please don't try to say I'm ass for doing so because I haven't got any respect. Do we really want 30% of the population who have oatmeal for brains to be calling the shots because they easily drink the Kool-Aid the insurance industry passes out?

I'm afraid if you accept this primrose path he is down, you won't get even any crumbs down the road. Like Howard Dean said, if he doesn't get this right and it fails, it will be twenty years before this issue can be brought up again because it will be considered toxic.