One of the biggest reasons many citizens voted for Barrack Obama for President last November was due to his promise to get health care reform with a dependable inexpensive public element and option for those without an inexpensive private insurance option available or affordable. It now strongly appears legislation that would accomplish that is going nowhere and that we Americans are going to be stuck with a national program that furthers insurance companies control and domination, resulting in higher premiums, less coverage, and overall a poor system that leaves much to be desired and lacking.This is the first powerful setback for the Democratic President, who will take the blame within months for failing to provide leadership and support for a legislation package broadly wanted by most Americans in the form of a single payer national government program where insurance corporations would be minor players. It is the first real defeat and the start of a negative trend for the Obama Administration. The honeymoon is over and first 100 days are done with. Expect little if any constructive and progressive legislation of any kind originating from and supported by the White House over the next 3 1/2 years now.
Expect the number of uninsured Americans to only increase in numbers in the coming months and years with premiums becoming far too expensive, too limited in coverage, and the continuing and growing ramifications of the ongoing economic collapse that has no end in sight. An additional consequence will be an increasing number of personal bankrupcies which will only further impact the overall economy on a diverse and widescale basis
Plainly, our government is about to blow it, largely due to bribery, graft, and corruption on the part of insurance corporations, the mega pharamaceutical industry, and other agents of treason.
http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2009/06/public-option-smokescreens-and-what-you.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-payer_health_care
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