Sep 18, 2007
Insurance Industry-run Government
I finally got to watch Michael Moore’s Sicko two nights ago, a nice piece of timing as, the very next day Hillary Clinton announced her healthcare reform plan.
What a frikkin disappointment she and the rest of the Democratic hopefuls (with the exception of Kucinich) have turned out to be. She is pushing her version of the same approach that Republican governors have pushed on Massachusetts and California: mandantory bondage to the insurance companies.
As with the Iraq War, it just doesn’t matter that strong majorities of the American people favor a single-payer, government-run system, like they enjoy in Canada, England, France, etc.
In fact, Clinton emphatically stated that her plan was anything but that. She willingly joins in the “socialized medicine=evil” frame that has brought us our current mess of a system. Government can be trusted to fight wars and put out fires and deliver mail and, uh, provide dandy healthcare to the governing elite, but it can’t be trusted with administering the healthcare for the rest of us.
Baloney Hillary. Just lost my vote.
