Reply #7: The healthcare debate is ripping the scabs off of our political process [View All]

(I posted this as an OP before noticing that you had posted about the Greenwald article in this forum)

This time it IS different. This issue reaches deep into each and every American household. We have heard the stories, or worse, lived the stories. We know about the bankruptcies, the deaths by spreadsheet, the insane salaries and bonuses, the lobbyists donations. We SEE how much money comes out of the paycheck every week. We KNOW other countries do it better and cheaper than we do.

It is finally being revealed to us that we are in possession of a political system that IS INCAPABLE of doing the right thing for the citizens of the country and for the financial well-being and stability of the country itself. The corruption is so open and so pervasive that our Congress will pass bills that do things like FORBID drug negotiation right in front of us, in the OPEN, so that corporations will profit at the expense of the entire country. The corporations profit and they pass some of that profit along to the pols and their parties.

AND WE TAKE IT!!! We accept bills like Medicare Part D with no drug negotiation! Are we going to get a healthcare bill that is similarly designed for and by the drug and insurance industries with the complicity of the White House, Senate and Congress? Will we roll over yet again as they stick it in our eyes OPENLY?

What are we going to do about it? I mean that as a serious question.