[Peace-discuss] [cchcc-l] Saturday's Health Reform Update & Take Action!

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Well Ron,

Have you read the bill ?

I have, and it leaves MASSIVE loop holes for the insurance industry to 
wiggle out of AND, most importently, it does NOTHING to prevent the private 
insurance corporations from using the ERISA laws to sue states who try to 
implement a state single payer system.

The bill also has NO provisons for medicare to purchase ( negotiate ) bulk 
drug purchases at a discount and more importently still leaves the Bush 
administration law that makes it ILLEGAL for American citizens to purchase 
drugs from Canada or other cheaper / higher quality foreign sources.

This bill will do NOTHING except entrench the private health insurance 
industry. And give many Americans a false " hope ".

So don't lecture me or anyone else about being " gullible " and  " lacking 
substance in arguement " when it is you and other naive liberals like you 
who are still blinded to the fact that Obama and most of the dems are 
corporate team players.

Medicare for ALL NOW !
NO COMPROMISE !

David Johnson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Szoke" <r-szoke at illinois.edu>
To: "John W." <jbw292002 at gmail.com>; <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
Cc: "Peace-discuss List" <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>; "Karen Medina" 
<kmedina67 at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [cchcc-l] Saturday's Health Reform Update & 
Take Action!


>
> There is no "Obamacare" bill, only one emerging from the stew of 
> conflicting
> agendas in congress.  I respect the opinion of some of those who oppose 
> it,
> but am not wholly convinced by their rhetoric -- which in some cases 
> consists
> merely of sneers, insults, accusations & prophecies of doom.
>
> I grant that the bill seems radically flawed & unsatisfactory as it 
> stands, but I
> support its passage in the (possibly unrealistic) hope that it can be 
> changed to
> something more like single-payer in the near future -- perhaps a year or 
> two.
> Either way, one's judgment rests on speculation about what will happen in 
> the
> future.  Those closest to the immediate situation -- CCHCC, CBHC, the 
> nuns,
> etc. -- seem overwhelmingly to support it.  Those who predict that it will
> result in ultimate disaster are faking & bluffing -- standard fare on this 
> list, to
> be sure.
>
> What disappoints me is the confluence of the glib & the gullible in 
> opposing it,
> & the notable lack of substance in their arguments.
>
> Ambivalently,
>
> -- Ron
>
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