Greg Roach's Berkshires Blog
Saturday, November 10, 2007
  Setting Back the Cause of Healthcare for All
I smell a train wreck around the bend.

Hopefully, when Romney-care collapses, the reaction will be to end the notion of employer based health care and bring it closer to the model of Medicare.

Unfortunately, I suspect that health care reform might become a third-rail issue and be dropped from the platforms of the major candidates. It's Harry and Louise all over again if the stars don't align just right.
 
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There is the underlying Republican premise that there should be NO SUCH THING AS PUBLIC FUNDING FOR ANYTHING! PROFIT THROUGH PRIVATIZATION! This time, because of intense lobbing by insurance companies, doctors groups, and drug companies, and other interested parties....Good Old Romney was able to slip this one through. It is a sad day indeed when people are so caught up in greed and power that they loose sight of the basic premise of Government......To HELP and SERVE PEOPLE, not CORPORATIONS.
Our Health Care is a mess and giving it to the Corporations is not going to fix it, just make it a system that is equal for all, not "THE MORE YOU PAY FOR A POLICY, THE BETTER THE SERVICE".
 
So why don't we see this info about Romney's activities in healthcare and education out there -- just think: He could do to the whole country what he has done to Massachusetts -- scary thought. But I don't see much reference to his Massachusetts experience in the campaign (or is that because I just don't read the Republican candidates' rhetoric?)
 
If your constitution will allow it, without making you sick, than on Faux Comity Central Muse, you will hear references made to it. Although because Romney is not the Favorite Son or the "Chosen One" than they like to tie it in with their Spewage how Privatization is the only answer to all are ills!
 
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