Reply #9: I know politics is the art of the possible and all that...

[warren pease]

... but am I the only one getting a little damn sick and tired of petitioning, begging, pleading, whining and sniveling at these goddamn obstructionist, bought-and-paid-for corporate employees rather than DEMANDING WHAT'S ALREADY OURS IN THE FIRST DAMN PLACE?

Health care is a right, not a privilege. Only a pure sociopath would argue in favor of the current profits-uber-alles obscenity that triages on bank balances rather than on medical need.

So aren't you getting a little past the point of quiet resignation when these miserable swine steadfastly deny every American the same single-payer, universal-access system they all enjoy?

I refuse to let them get away with this idiotic "public option" shuck and jive they're trying to con us rubes into thinking will be just like their own menu of Cadillac medical plans?

We're actually supposed to believe that this is just as good as their own set of single-payer "public options" that will follow them and their extended families around for life -- with never a gap in coverage or a concern about some "pre-existing condition" or a lifetime benefits cap.

All this while watching the privileged rat bastards make damn sure HR 676 remains "off the table" on orders from their corporate sugar daddies.

The single-payer concept's been out there since the Truman administration and, in its latest form, since John Conyers, of all people, first introduced HR 676 on February 8, 2005. It's been re-introduced every session since then, maintaining the illusion that the public is occasionally being served.

Then, with great haste and no fanfare, it's returned to its bleachers seat in the bottom drawer of Conyers' file cabinet drawer -- gathering dust right along side Kucinich's 39 articles of impeachment against Bush and Cheney.

Single-payer, universal-access health care is an elected official's right, but it's apparently just too good for the peasantry -- not when it'll cost their corporate sponsors hundreds of billions of dollars it now siphons off every year as its parasitic cut of the action.


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