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Hillary’s big healthcare con
Hillary’s big healthcare con: The cynical myth she keeps repeating about Bernie Sanders and single-payer
The call to make the ACA work signals powerful medical interests and Big Pharma will make millions under Clinton
SALON, by Chris Brooks
1-23-16
The Clinton campaign’s cynical capitulation to corporate power appears to be reaching brazen new heights as the Democratic presidential nominee goes on the offensive and publicly attacks her rivals for their advocacy of single-payer healthcare.
Clinton, who has racked up just under $3 million from the healthcare industry in speaking fees over the past two years, has publicly dismissed the “Medicare-for-all” model proposed by Bernie Sanders as well as the publicly administered health insurance option floated during the debates surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), claiming such policy proposals are risky and irresponsible.
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Why did Obama and the Democrats purposely kill the public option? Because they made a quid pro quo backroom deal with industry lobbyists, promising that no government alternative to private health insurance would be in the final bill if the industry would provide their support.
Similarly, the White House reached a secret agreement with the pharmaceutical lobby, agreeing to table substantive reforms, such as the government leveraging its negotiating power to lower drug prices or legalizing the importation of drugs from Canada, and including policies that Big Pharma favored and stood to reap a windfall of billions of dollars in profits from. In exchange, the White House received the industry’s support, which resulted in the pharmaceutical lobby spending $150 million on television commercials in support of the ACA, more than the total amount Republican Senator John McCain spent on his 2008 presidential campaign.
The public option, expanding Medicare coverage to people beginning at the age of 55, importation of drugs from Canada and bulk price negotiations were all traded away by the Obama administration, and in their place Democrats offered $450 billion in taxpayer money to publicly subsidize the mandated purchase of private health insurance, effectively expanding and entrenching the corporate monopoly over the collective health of millions of people while still managing to leave 27 million people uninsured by 2025.
And all of this was done with industry lobbyists behind closed doors....
Read more, including stats on the revolving door btn DC and healthcare lobbyists~
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/23/hillarys_big_healthcare_con_the_cynical_myth_she_keeps_repeating_about_bernie_sanders_and_single_payer/
The call to make the ACA work signals powerful medical interests and Big Pharma will make millions under Clinton
SALON, by Chris Brooks
1-23-16
The Clinton campaign’s cynical capitulation to corporate power appears to be reaching brazen new heights as the Democratic presidential nominee goes on the offensive and publicly attacks her rivals for their advocacy of single-payer healthcare.
Clinton, who has racked up just under $3 million from the healthcare industry in speaking fees over the past two years, has publicly dismissed the “Medicare-for-all” model proposed by Bernie Sanders as well as the publicly administered health insurance option floated during the debates surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), claiming such policy proposals are risky and irresponsible.
....very large Snip....
Why did Obama and the Democrats purposely kill the public option? Because they made a quid pro quo backroom deal with industry lobbyists, promising that no government alternative to private health insurance would be in the final bill if the industry would provide their support.
Similarly, the White House reached a secret agreement with the pharmaceutical lobby, agreeing to table substantive reforms, such as the government leveraging its negotiating power to lower drug prices or legalizing the importation of drugs from Canada, and including policies that Big Pharma favored and stood to reap a windfall of billions of dollars in profits from. In exchange, the White House received the industry’s support, which resulted in the pharmaceutical lobby spending $150 million on television commercials in support of the ACA, more than the total amount Republican Senator John McCain spent on his 2008 presidential campaign.
The public option, expanding Medicare coverage to people beginning at the age of 55, importation of drugs from Canada and bulk price negotiations were all traded away by the Obama administration, and in their place Democrats offered $450 billion in taxpayer money to publicly subsidize the mandated purchase of private health insurance, effectively expanding and entrenching the corporate monopoly over the collective health of millions of people while still managing to leave 27 million people uninsured by 2025.
And all of this was done with industry lobbyists behind closed doors....
Read more, including stats on the revolving door btn DC and healthcare lobbyists~
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/23/hillarys_big_healthcare_con_the_cynical_myth_she_keeps_repeating_about_bernie_sanders_and_single_payer/
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Thanks for sharing!
