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That is Dean, about the Senate mess-around.
Kucinich voted against the House product; and everyone should read his reasoning, similar to Dean's; Kucinich here.
What the deceitful politicians in DC are intending to foist off on the people, who during the Campaign were promised by Obama that he would work for their having the same coverage he, as a member of one of the houses of congress had, amounts to a flat tax.
Consider it. Corporations employing workers must pay the "tax" for their having employees, or they pay a fine. Individuals must pay the "tax" or pay a fine. It is privatized, in that an industry pool or coalition would set your "tax rate" and whether you are a millionaire who could afford to pay more, or a pauper but at the same risk level, you pay the same.
That is nothing but a flat tax, except it does not go to the government for a government run healthcare program. It is siphoned off to the existing Insurance cabal, a sop to them from the pockets of corporate and real persons, and as such it is indecent and unconscionable.
It sucks. Hucksters are behind our backs, ready to stab.
IF YOU WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO FORCE A FLAT TAX ONTO YOU TO GO INTO THE COFFERS OF THE ALREADY WEALTHY AND ARROGANT AND INDECENT AND INHUMANE INSURANCE MEGA-FIRMS, THEN YOU WANT THIS MESS TO BECOME LAW OF THE LAND. STAND WITH DR. DEAN ON THIS ONE. WHAT'S BEING COOKED UP BY THE JOE LIEBERMANS OF THIS NATION IS WORSE THAN THE OBSCENE STATUS QUO. IT IS NOT REFORM. IT IS RAPE.
THE PROCESS IS AND HAS BEEN MOVING AS SLOW AS PARASTALSIS AND WITHOUT A LASTING LOUD PUBLIC OUTCRY SOON, THE FINAL OUTCOME WILL BE SIMILAR.
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For more about the Dean patriotism, standing up for Americans, see, e.g., here, here, here, here, or follow the several links here.
If mainstream media does not like Dean's stance, or is ambivalent, you know it's sound. You know the MSM owners set policy preferences on big-ticket federal legislation money issues, and friends help friends at the country club. Hemsley at UnitedHealth and his chums at the top in the trade might all even have media stocks in their personal investment portfolio. Lois Quam might. They've certainly got the wherewithal. More so than me.
Or Howard Dean.
Or Dennis Kucinich.
Or you.
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We should never forget the Weymouth WaPo access peddling scheme that ran aground before amuck, but was seriously put forth by the heiress as a way to pimp the Post around DC, on healthcare, no less. Mainstream media is marketed.
It happens.
Update - more links: here, here, here, here, here.
Ned Lamont, we love you. What is in the drinking water in Connecticut that yielded a Joe Lieberman victory? Scary.
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An email reminded me of Maureen Reed, Sixth District DFL candidate along with Tarryl Clark, and the op-ed she'd written on cost containment being an important part of healthcare. This earlier Crabgrass link. That's fine, and motherhood and apple pie are great but where there are policy differences is where you like to see people articulate positions and reasons. The Reed point is correct, without cost containment it is all a charade, but there is containing costs, "bending down the curve" and that is uncontroversial; while there is how do you administer and fund healthcare for all, which is what the entire debate is about. That's where Dean, Kucinich, Sanders, and Congressman Conyers' H.R. 676 "Medicare for All" appraoch ring the bell, and taking the easy road, discussing cost containment, that gets gonged out as too weak an act by itself.
The good guys. Who's with them? Who's not? That's the kind of committment of conscience that would impress me, to see, from one who's had a career in the healthcare delivery sphere. Not mom and apple pie, we all already know that.
How administered, how funded, as the best policy vs. the messes being made by those now in Congress - proud of themselves, pontificating over it - Klobuchar saying Lieberman's been a good Dem, just a bit his own man. We don't need dissembling.
We need leadership. We need a show of conscience. We need perhaps hopefully, to see a polarization of opposition to appeasement; whether it anchors around Dr. Dean or a group of strong populist-progressives.
This idea that a supermajority of sixty votes is needed - let the bastards actually filibuster, keep them there doing it over Chirstmas into All Fools day if needed, but don't appease the dark forces of the GOP and the self-termed "moderate Democrats" who are simply GOP-lite.
Howard Dean presently is pointing out the 51 vote "reconciliation" option, and did so clearly and cogently a half year ago, back in mid-July, on Democracy Now! There is only one reason the Dems in Congress are turning a deaf ear to that, and it is that they do not want to hear it because they would rather be complicit in flim-flamming the public.
Shame on them. It is reprehensible to not use a tactic that disarms the obstructionists. That hands back to Joe Lieberman the plate of trash he's been sanctimoniously handing out for weeks, months, years.
Let him go back to McCain worship for all I care.