The profiteers who run the medical-industrial complex in the US--Big Pharma, Big Inscos, equipment manufacturers, and the AMA--have decided to run riot. They see that any meaningful reform that might have saved consumers some money (single payer, public option, Medicare expansion, etc.) has been killed or slow-walked to death by the Democrats in Washington. Having taken a dive, the Dems have insured a Republican resurgence.

So what do the profit boys have to fear? It's time to soak the masses like never before. And if you object, then you must be a communist.

Thank you for reading the National Journal (my 5th bookmark behind gmail, facebook, KnoxViews, my bank, before Twitter and this) and continuing to pass on increasingly hard to find quality information.

Bookmark 8, FT.com, brings us this:

“Historians will puzzle over the fact that Barack Obama, the best communicator of his generation, totally lost control of the narrative in his first year in office and allowed people to view something they had voted for as something they suddenly didn’t want,” says Jim Morone, America’s leading political scientist on healthcare reform. “Communication was the one thing everyone thought Obama would be able to master.”

'sup? (What are we selling?)

Right wing lurkers (& crushed dream Dems): This question is not meant to imply that we are selling a bad product (Obama) that is responsible for health care costs going up. We clearly don't have the manpower in Congress to craft workable (for us) solutions for national systemic reforms that the leadership (the President for which we voted) has asked for, and that shit rolls downhill all the way to your city hall. Start shopping. We can't just throw everybody out right now and get high school students to rewrite all of the laws passed after 1787 for free (although that would be a flawless solution,) but we can start filling in a lot of blanks and find honest employees to do the jobs we send them to do. Keep the Scott Browns and the Lewis Cosbys coming, just try to make 'em Democrats.

This fits into my comments on the Dela Volpe vs the School Board thread.If we were to create a 21st century high school to teach kids to be mom & pop entrepreneurs..how do you get around the fact..that,right now,it's damn near impossible for mom & pop entrepreneurs to afford health insurance? I truely believe that the 21st century economy could look very much like the mid 20th century economy if we could clear the health care hurdle.

My idea is that so many young people today see their parents & grandparents being laid off from jobs that they have held for years & years...that young people are going to think..how do I not end up in the same boat?

One way not to get laid off from a large company is to work for myself.And with the new urbanist movement taking hold...I can forsee,like in the mid 20th century right before the explosion of the suburbs,moving away from shopping centers to neighborhood grocery stores,drug stores ect & folks living next door or over the neighborhood shops.

I also believe community banks will also take hold..ridding us of two finacial pariahs:1.Huge finacial conglomerates..that were underpinned on worthless paper of wildly over assesed property.2.These payday loan sharks.

Republicans always argue that WE Democrats are socialist
because we want affordable health insurance.

No WE DEMOCRATS WANT THE ENGINE OF THE NEW ECONOMY TO
BE SMALL ENTREPRENEUERS.

To get there small entrepreneurs need affordable health
insurance.

WTF IS SOCIALIST ABOUT THAT??????????????