"Obamacare" is a misleading and inaccurate term, because Obama does not have the constitutional right to make laws nor is he actually dictating the agenda in Washington. America's government took a fascist course after the last Great Depression, but this economic and political trend is never mentioned because it has been sidelined to conspiracy talk.
A government owned by Big Business and Big Money can not offer any positive program in any sector, plain and simple. But it seems like this basic fact is being lost on the whole country, with the exception of a tiny and intelligent minority. Democrats rallying around this health care plan are more ignorant than the Republicans who oppose it. The sensible health plans, single-payer, and a free market solution, are rarely discussed. The fact that Industry Giants are awarded private sessions with the President should signal off the fire alarm, however, America's smoke-detectors have long been disconnected. But you can still smell the smoke coming from the White House if you follow your nose.
David Lindorff nailed down the crazy situation pretty well in his column that appeared in CounterPunch.
Many progressives are getting all bent out of shape over the "brown shirt" rabble organized by health industry PR firms to disrupt the so-called "town meetings" being organized all over the country by Democratic members of Congress.
What they are conveniently forgetting is that these are not really "town meetings" at all, at least in the sense of the town meetings I grew up with, and started out covering as a young journalist in Connecticut--that is, meetings called and run democratically, with leaders elected from the floor, open to all residents of a community.
These "town meetings" are really nothing but propaganda sessions run by members of Congress who are trying to burnish their fraudulent credentials as public servants, and trying to perpetrate a huge fraud of a health care bill that purports to be a progressive "reform" of the US health care system, but that actually further entrenches the control of that system by the insurance industry, and to a lesser extent, the hospital and drug industry.
ObamaCare is to health reform what bank bailouts are to financial system reform, which is to say it is the opposite of what its name implies.
The right-wing nuts who cry that ObamaCare is introducing euthanasia for the elderly and infirm, or that it is socialism, are ignorant wackos, to be sure, but they are right about one thing: Americans are about to be royally screwed on health care reform by the president and the Democratic Congress, just as they've been screwed by them on financial system "reform."
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