This entire health care debate has Americans “wookin’ pa nub” in all the wrong places.
I find it interesting that while big business is regularly slammed just for being “too big”, its critics will conveniently side with big business when it fits their agenda. Yesterday, it was big banks who became “The Great Satan” that had to be destroyed as gullible Americans were told by Washington and the press that greedy bank execs were responsible for this mess and had to stopped. So while we were arranging protest bus tours to AIG execs who had just received their bonuses (thanks to us taxpayers), the same evil bank was receiving its bonus money from the Obama administration for the sole purpose of funding these bonuses. Going a step further, the same bank even gave Obama $101,332 to help him win the general election. Bottom line, government and banks were nothing more than two sides of the same coin while we American folks picked heads or tails.
Fast forward to today and once again we find ourselves playing the same exact game. Health insurance companies are bad, bad, BAD, but PhRMA is now “good”. Why? Because according to Politico, they are spending about $6 million of their evil capitalistic dollars to convince you that more government healthcare is great.
So let’s think about this for a moment.
Health insurance companies=bad
Pharmaceutical companies=good
Without pharmaceuticals, the health insurance industry as a whole would be dead in the water which is why they have more to gain going with a more government controlled option. On the other hand, the over $11 million in campaign contributions from health professionals and HMOs given to Obama (3 times more than what was given to McCain) in his run for President was an attempt to slow down the momentum of increased government healthcare. And as we saw back in ’09, it actually did.
So bottom line, all the sappy talk out there about how this side or that side really cares about your health is nothing more than a smokescreen to a much bigger battle: the battle over who is going to control you and your health care. Pick a side? That’s up to you. But your biggest concern should be who is going be on your side when you get sick? A government that can’t even manage Medicare/Medicaid and is so bad that people have been walking away from it or a corporation that may drop you if you have certain preconditions?
Even Morpheus does not have a pill for those choices.
Wookin’ Pa Nub
by Duane on March 17th, 2010 at 12:17 pmI find it interesting that while big business is regularly slammed just for being “too big”, its critics will conveniently side with big business when it fits their agenda. Yesterday, it was big banks who became “The Great Satan” that had to be destroyed as gullible Americans were told by Washington and the press that greedy bank execs were responsible for this mess and had to stopped. So while we were arranging protest bus tours to AIG execs who had just received their bonuses (thanks to us taxpayers), the same evil bank was receiving its bonus money from the Obama administration for the sole purpose of funding these bonuses. Going a step further, the same bank even gave Obama $101,332 to help him win the general election. Bottom line, government and banks were nothing more than two sides of the same coin while we American folks picked heads or tails.
Fast forward to today and once again we find ourselves playing the same exact game. Health insurance companies are bad, bad, BAD, but PhRMA is now “good”. Why? Because according to Politico, they are spending about $6 million of their evil capitalistic dollars to convince you that more government healthcare is great.
So let’s think about this for a moment.
Health insurance companies=bad
Pharmaceutical companies=good
Without pharmaceuticals, the health insurance industry as a whole would be dead in the water which is why they have more to gain going with a more government controlled option. On the other hand, the over $11 million in campaign contributions from health professionals and HMOs given to Obama (3 times more than what was given to McCain) in his run for President was an attempt to slow down the momentum of increased government healthcare. And as we saw back in ’09, it actually did.
So bottom line, all the sappy talk out there about how this side or that side really cares about your health is nothing more than a smokescreen to a much bigger battle: the battle over who is going to control you and your health care. Pick a side? That’s up to you. But your biggest concern should be who is going be on your side when you get sick? A government that can’t even manage Medicare/Medicaid and is so bad that people have been walking away from it or a corporation that may drop you if you have certain preconditions?
Even Morpheus does not have a pill for those choices.