Reply #12: The big problem why we don't have NHC is because the [View All]

[Cleita]

healthcare, pharma and insurance industries are ruthless in their war to make sure it doesn't happen. Everytime we get close to getting something done, they start putting out operatives who sprinkle television, magazines, newspapers and websites with disinformation about how horrible it is in other countries and they actually sway people to their way of thinking. What they say is untrue or situations that happened years ago as if it were yesterday.

Back ten years ago, I saw a 75% approval drop to 55% in a matter of weeks because they were so efficient in getting their propaganda on all the news outlets. We who were working at a grass roots level to get some legislation on the table couldn't fight the huge money behind this.

Right now there is no problem for them because all the Repukes in Congress get huge donations from them and are beholden to them. So they aren't campaigning as vociferously as before because they know there is a fat chance in Hell, anything will get to Congress in the present political climate. Even Canadians and others coming on line and saying their health care is great doesn't make a difference anymore.