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by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Truthout
April 9, 2012
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The debate surrounding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act illustrates the impoverishment of our political life. Here is a law that had its origin in the right-wing Heritage Foundation, was first put into practice in 2006 in Massachusetts by then-Gov. Mitt Romney and was solidified into federal law after corporate lobbyists wrote legislation with more than 2,000 pages. It is a law that forces American citizens to buy a deeply defective product from private insurance companies. It is a law that is the equivalent of the bank bailout bill—some $447 billion in subsidies for insurance interests alone—for the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. It is a law that is unconstitutional. And it is a law by which President Barack Obama, and his corporate backers, extinguished the possibilities of both the public option and Medicare for all Americans. There is no substantial difference between Obamacare and Romneycare. There is no substantial difference between Obama and Romney. They are abject servants of the corporate state. And if you vote for one you vote for the other.
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via http://truth-out.org/news/item/8407-the-real-health-care-debate
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Free-Market Medicine – A Personal Account by Michael Parenti
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The Forthcoming “Gray Tsunami” by Guadamour
A Response to David Brooks’ NT Times Column “Death and Budgets” by Michael Lyon
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