Dems Pass 'Historic' Insurance Reform

President Obama and the Democratic Congress have now cemented their place in history as being the most corrupted by corporate special interests with the passage of Obamacare (at least phase I, and pending the 'reconciliation' bill). It seems like years ago when we read about the secret meetings that Sen. Kennedy's staff and members of his H.E.L.P committee were having behind closed doors with all the 'stakeholds' (defined as special interests and not to be confused with America's working class who were NOT represented). Of course Sen. Baucus was also doing the same thing for the Senate Finance Committee along with someone he hired away from Wellpoint (the country's largest private insurance company) Liz Fowler, V.P. of Public Affairs.

Then came the very public and televised 'Health 'Care' Summit #I' at the White House. There again Obama only invited the corporate special interest groups (i.e. 'stakeholders") and their key congressional representatives like Sen. Baucus and Speaker Pelosi. Representatives like Kucinich, Grayson or Weiner who had openly advocated (at least on the surface) for a truly Universal Comprehensive Health CARE system were specifically excluded as were representatives advocating for the American People.

As of last night they now have their fiat accompli for the special interests to include:

No Universal Single Payer Health CARE
Mandatory purchase of private insurance
Prohibit Medicare from negotiating for lower prices
Prohibit import of lower cost drugs from the rest of the world; all of whom enjoy lower prices through their universal healthcare programs
No 'Robust Public Option', aka Medicare Option, aka Jakob Hacker Public Option that would provide better and lower cost insurance to EVERYONE
No Kucinich amendment to allow states to create their own Single Payer plans
No elimination of Bush's Medicare Part D in favor of a 'real' prescription drug plan
No elimination of the Bush tax cuts to the most wealthy which could pay for healthcare and a lot more
Taxes on 'high cost' insurance premiums that his the middle income earners
Here is an article I wrote that was just published in the OpEdNews.com site: http://www.opednews.com/populum/page.php?a=108998#allcomments

I'm not sure yet what I will recommend for future actions, but it certainly will not be more letters, emails and calls to the White House and Congress. They had their chance and they threw us (progressives and the American working class in general) under the bus. I do know one thing, November is not that far off!