It looks like health care reform is dead. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I'm right. Once you see the Republicrooks calling a living will a govt. bureaucrat calling you to ask when you want to die, you know that the stink machine has gone into high odour. A big part of the failure is the inability of the Democrats, including the President, to educate the citizenry that the "huge, unsustainable cost" of a health program is already being spent. It's just being spent in a much less efficient, unhealthier way. So, the question is, who profits from this American tragedy?
1. The health insurance cos. But, these guys are not big enough or important enough to be able to buy nearly all Republicans and a lot of Democrats. It's not like they are the NRA.
2. The Drug Cos.? Not really. They will be able to sell their drugs at huge profits whether reform comes or not. They already sell their drugs at huge profits to the socialized health care countries.
3. It has to be corporate America. The big firms like the concept of being the "big daddy" without whom there is no health care. It is very similar to owing your soul to the company store in the 19th century. Though it increases their costs, directly, it lowers their cost, indirectly, by allowing them to pay lower salaries than they would without this big stick of health care they are carrying around.
So, American govt. kowtows to the big corporations again? What else is new? I just wonder how long the suckers are going to fall for it? As a betting man, I would guess, forever. Nobody ever said Americans were bright. |
