The Seminal » Obama’s Senate Health Care Bill: A “Uniquely American” Idiocy: "In Copenhagen last week, when Senator James Inhofe tried to sell reporters on his climate change denialism, the European press corp showed the American media how to take its job seriously: 'You are an idiot,' one German reporter said to his face. Sometimes, that’s what reporting the truth requires.
And that’s exactly what the America media should be saying to the White House and the Senate Democratic leadership for the travesty of a health 'reform' bill now slouching towards Christmas eve. Only a group of idiots would have concocted this incoherent mishmash and called it 'reform.'
To be sure, there are many provisions of the Senate bill that are worthwhile, worth passing — I’ll get to that — but these mostly ad hoc features are carrying, fronting for a deeply flawed, underlying structure of a bill that utterly fails to reform what’s wrong with America’s inhumane, corrupt health care system.
America’s private, for-profit health insurance and delivery systems have failed. Their so-called 'markets' are not competitive, and that can’t be fixed with puny exchanges that may or may not be created by skeptical — or recalcitrant — states. The insurance and hospital sectors are highly concentrated, dominated by market power that allows providers and insurers to overcharge Americans by 50 to 100 percent more than other nations pay for equal or better care and universal coverage."
And that’s exactly what the America media should be saying to the White House and the Senate Democratic leadership for the travesty of a health 'reform' bill now slouching towards Christmas eve. Only a group of idiots would have concocted this incoherent mishmash and called it 'reform.'
To be sure, there are many provisions of the Senate bill that are worthwhile, worth passing — I’ll get to that — but these mostly ad hoc features are carrying, fronting for a deeply flawed, underlying structure of a bill that utterly fails to reform what’s wrong with America’s inhumane, corrupt health care system.
America’s private, for-profit health insurance and delivery systems have failed. Their so-called 'markets' are not competitive, and that can’t be fixed with puny exchanges that may or may not be created by skeptical — or recalcitrant — states. The insurance and hospital sectors are highly concentrated, dominated by market power that allows providers and insurers to overcharge Americans by 50 to 100 percent more than other nations pay for equal or better care and universal coverage."
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