Guess who's coming to the White House.
On Monday morning, representatives for the nation's major health care industry groups--doctors, hospitals, drugmakers, device makers, and insurers--will pay a personal visit to President Obama. But instead of pitching a fit about health care reform, as they have so many times in history, they will offer their assistance. They will pledge their support for Obama's goals and they'll offer to do their part--by taking steps that would reduce the growth in national health care spending by about one-fifth over the next decade.
The White House and Congress aren't going to do shit about health care because the vast majority of politicians in both parties are on the take from these big donors in the health care industry.
Our current health care system is on life support; hell, it is DOA. It's time for a new direction, but nobody has the political will to do it. Single payer rhetoric will be left to the grandstanding types like Dennis Kucinich, who isn't taken seriously anyhow and also won't do anything but spew out vegan-style red meat rhetoric to the so-called "progressives."
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