Americans don't need a "Public Option", they don't really need an FDA and it is surely the case that they do NOT need a Justice Department that wants to investigate Pharmaceutical Companies. As many have told us, the health "industry" is ONE-SIXTH of our economy! It is just TOO BIG TO FAIL and all that pesky oversight stuff? That poses a risk to insurance companies and pharmaceutical giants that is just plain BAD FOR AMERICA. In the 1930s the President of General Motors (if memory serves me) said, "What's good for General Motors is good for America", by which I think we can infer that he was saying to Congress, "Back off you pesky regulators, GM can regulate itself just fine!"
But when we read a story like this, suddenly the financial links between the health "industry" and our population seems slightly... predatory. Hold that thought. Big Pharma is not your friend, they are already in a committed relationship with their stockholders. We are no more than raw materials, to be manipulated through advertising, selectively medicated through bonus payments to physicians, promised the moon and handed a cantaloupe. Sometimes a rotten one. Why would our friends in Pharma and Insura be acting like that?
Here's why: Click Here.
See, there is a lot of money in the health "industry". That innovation they talk about? Oh, they do that, but they are also pretty good at innovative marketing, advertising and manipulation techniques, which is what earned Pfizer a $2.3 Billion legal "settlement". Wow, that's really a lot of money, isn't it? But we learn that the size of that penalty is because this is the 4th time Pfizer has done something exactly like this, in violation of Federal Law.
Given that history, how on earth would Americans be willing to trust healthcare to the government, instead of to the warm embrace of the "industry" that works tirelessly and selflessly on behalf of all Americans (who own their stock). What could possibly go wrong?
My suggestion is to call your Senator (and other people's Senators) and let them know that you want a Public Option to be part of the healthcare reform. Grinding one's teeth is an excellent jaw exercise, but doing something is an even better exercise of one's rights as a voter and citizen.
Those who are trying to push reform are in a real battle here. They can't do it alone.
Arthur
See, there is a lot of money in the health "industry". That innovation they talk about? Oh, they do that, but they are also pretty good at innovative marketing, advertising and manipulation techniques, which is what earned Pfizer a $2.3 Billion legal "settlement". Wow, that's really a lot of money, isn't it? But we learn that the size of that penalty is because this is the 4th time Pfizer has done something exactly like this, in violation of Federal Law.
Given that history, how on earth would Americans be willing to trust healthcare to the government, instead of to the warm embrace of the "industry" that works tirelessly and selflessly on behalf of all Americans (who own their stock). What could possibly go wrong?
My suggestion is to call your Senator (and other people's Senators) and let them know that you want a Public Option to be part of the healthcare reform. Grinding one's teeth is an excellent jaw exercise, but doing something is an even better exercise of one's rights as a voter and citizen.
Those who are trying to push reform are in a real battle here. They can't do it alone.
Arthur
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In the 1930s the President of General Motors (if memory serves me) said, "What's good for General Motors is good for America"
My memory does not reach that far back and I long ago learned not to rely on yours:
One-time GM President Charles Wilson famously declared in the 1950s: “What’s good for General Motors is good for America.”
Anyway space being so limited here, I just want to commend you on a good synopsis of the liberal blogosphere goings on today. If you google “What’s good for General Motors is good for America.”, it's all over the place. You didn't do any better than anyone else, including Obama, defining public option. Nobody knows what it means, when it will begin, or what it will cost. Oh and by the way, can you assure me that there's not an ulterior motive sleeping in the background with this "public option" thing? Some say there is you know.
Now this: "Big Pharma is not your friend" Let's don't go there except for me to say BS and skip all the advances in modern medicine developed in their behalf with the outstanding American academic research community.
Just who is Big Pharma? As of today the largest Big Pharma is Novartis of the universal healthcare country of Switzerland and 6 out of the top 8 are from Europe. Granted there is a pending merger of your friends at #2 Pfizer and #11 Wyeth making them #1.
Do you remember the Thalidomide sedative affair of the late 50's? It was sold without prescription by it's German manufacturer to many European socialized medicine countries. Thousands of babies were horribly malformed because clinical tests hadn't included pregnant women. It became licensed in the US but the FDA withheld approval because of perceived inadequate testing information. Never have I heard any sane individual say that we don't need the FDA, ludicrous.
Question: Why must the left have to besmirch Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Auto etc., but they love Big Gummit? You sound like Hugo Chavez.
I mean this is a Big f***ing country. Your state, Big California, would be anywhere from 8th to 10th largest GDP producer in the world, if it were a country, depending on the source. The European Union exists for what reason? To compete with the United States, and thus we are #2 in GDP. Why does Airbus exist? To compete with Big Boeing. Airbus is owned by a conglomerate in France, Germany, UK, Spain and yes, even China. I guess my point is yeah that's why we have government regulation and oversight to hopefully catch the wrongdoings but do we throw the baby out with the swampwater. Pelosi said she was going to drain the swamp, so Charlie Rangel gets caught (not by Nancy of course) 2 years in a row cheating on his taxes to the tune of a $1 million plus in unreported income, while chairman of the tax law writing House Ways and Means committee, but hey, he's under investigation by two ethics violation committees. We don't throw out Big Congress because of all these guys ethics, criminal and personal violations, do we? We just drain the swamp on election day.
I mentioned before that state governments heavily regulate the Insurance industry and control who may compete in their state but that doesn't seem to register here. Also no one here talks about "defensive medicine" because of the Tort Law abuses by Big Law, oh well.
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