Reply #11: How much worse can it get...

[warren pease]

... and how much more shit will people swallow? From here, it looks like the answers are a) plenty, and b) as much as is shoveled down their throats.

I really thought critical mass for a 20th century health care system would have been reached a decade or two ago, and that it would have eventually become a litmus test to weed out candidates who didn't support single-payer, universal-access health care.

And yet, Kucinich makes that a key part of his campaign and he's branded a left wing radical loon and literally removed from the public consciousness by our media gatekeepers, their corporate masters and his own goddamn party. Now we have two left standing: Ms. Clinton, who has accepted around $10 million from the for-profit medical biz -- pharma, medical facilities, the AMA, HMOs, other insurers, hospital chains and so forth.

Mr. Obama, with the second tallest pile of money from the for-profit medical establishment, is also a darling of Wall St., which is where the for-profit medical biz dumps all its extra cash, taking yours and my money spent on obscene premiums, skimming about 35 percent off the top that might otherwise go to pay medical claims, and investing it in hedge funds in hopes of making even more money for themselves while constantly taking even more money from us.

Amazingly, this is called the American health care system, and I've never seen a politician or industry shill break down and laugh uncontrollably when attempting to justify it. Talk about incredible self-control...

There's enough well-annotated information, enough advocacy groups, enough web sites, enough studies, enough white papers, enough case studies and enough testimonials out there for people to find out for themselves how utterly screwed they're getting by for-profit medicine. If they choose to take the three monkey approach and prevent their senses from absorbing it, then fuck 'em and their decrepit little minds. Unfortunately, in the process of fucking themselves over, they're fucking us over, too. And that's what REALLY pisses me off about this whole situation.


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