Reply #38: And notice how little public talk there is about who is to blame for the USA's moral disgrace [View All]

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of treating healthcare as a privilege and leaving 47 million uninsured and allowing its citizens to go bankrupt trying to pay for medical care.

Howard Dean is not the one who told the Democratic leaders to take the best plan, Single Payer, a MIXTURE of public and private systems, off the table. He's not the one who gave the President that terrible advice.

The disgrace that is our Pay-or-Die system has failed miserably to prove their case when they last defeated national health insurance telling us the private sector could do better over a decade ago.

They had their chance and failed miserably. Costs skyrocketed and coverage plummeted. End of free ride fellas. You all failed miserably, is where Democrats should have begun.

Then gone on to say-- You are welcome to present any other options that can beat this-- Single Payer, opening up Medicare to all as a public option. Medical services privately delivered by private doctors you can choose, and everyone is covered, for less than we pay now. Beat that and we can talk.

No more of this -- gotta be fair to the private sector -- crap. They certainly have not been fair to us. And how fair are they being now by hiring right wing PR firms to gin up dangerous hate and fear just to preserve their billions in profits?