Single payer unlikely unless

Obama is caving to vested interests when it comes to health care. Its the same old same old. As a politician he has been counseled and likely personally measured up the possible fight with the lobby powers and sees failure if he tries to take them on directly. Its likely, without a massive public outcry, that the closest we will get to a single payer system is his "government plan" alternative. Its a good ruse and wedge for later consolidation to a single payer system, but its still not the right thing to do. The right thing to do is to eliminate the corporate middle man expense at all once as most other countries have already done.

Here's the thing - no matter what the propaganda from the health care lobby try to SELL you about the evils of "socialized" medicine, (which is what Medicare is), the only practical difference between our present system and a single payer system is that single payer is way cheaper and more efficient because the massive profits and expensive bureaucracy of the middle man insurance companies are taken out of the picture.

The other major expense of the present healthcare system is drugs costs, which are often more than double in the US what is paid in Canada for exactly the same drug from exactly the same company.

Why? Because Canada's single payer system allows it to act as a bulk buyer (like Walmart) that can demand cheaper prices on drugs from the pharmaceutical companies...something that the big Pharamco lobby got made illegal in the US by having it specifically written into the medical legislation passed not long ago by the Republican congress and the Bush administration.

The really sad thing is that the single payer system that most people want (including health care professionals) is not even on the table, is because the health care industry lobbies have taken control of both houses of congress.

The situation literally is that the democratic will of the people is going to be ignored over the profits of corporations. Congress does not represent the people, it represents business interests...period.

Think about that.

Also think about this, in Canada and the rest of the western world, citizens regard health as a right rather than a privilege of those who can afford it .

They also believe that its morally wrong for an huge industry to profit massively from people's illnesses. Why do we allow a system that profits from and bankrupts entire families on the simple basis that a family member got a life threatening disease? They know they have us over the proverbial barrel; are you going to let your parent or your child die, or are you going to sell the house and whatever else its takes to keep them alive? Why do we allow a system like that?

But none of it will change if we the people do not demand a single payer system. We've got to speak up to our representatives and push Obama and his administration to do the right thing by giving the people the health care system we want rather than bending to the will of the corporations.

The first step is to learn the truth about single payer health care and not be bamboozled by the people who profit from your ignorance maintained by their constant and expensive propaganda. Think of them all as seedy car salesmen, because they don't give a damn about you or your family. They're entirely it for the money and nothing else and that's a fact.