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Half a loaf?  No, worse.  Here is your pre-Christmas present — a big lump of coal.   Let me simplify and make clear my assertion.  You are ill, in need of medical care.   You want the best.   Whose wise counsel and help do you seek?   You want someone who is sympathetic, skilled and competent.

Dr. Howard Dean

Political HealthCare

This debate has never been about Health.   Certainly not your health.  For the last six months I have steadfastly maintained the large insurance racketeers will not lose this one.   They have thrown all their money into the ring.  It has paid off handsomely. Their paid surrogates have performed well.  Like their Wall Street kin, the pirates have won again.   Robert Reich pulls no punches:

In other words, the private insurers are winning and the public is losing.

Pharmaceutical companies are winning as well.

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This is worth studying – from the Wall Street Journal.  This is not new.  It is not driven by the current economic crisis.  Keep your eye on the ball and watch the money. This dynamic duo will not lose — large insurance companies and  big Pharma.  That’s why Harry and Louise now favor a new plan.

Also required viewing is Marcia Angell interviewed on this weeks Bill Moyer’s Journal.  She fears a bad plan is worse than no plan at all.  Reference her past accomplishments as Editor of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and author of The Truth about the Drug Companies: How they deceive us and what to do about it.

Hillary Clinton was interviewed on Meet the Press.    David Axelrod on Face the Nation.   Not very convincing as he trys to answer the unanswerable.  How to fund the grand plan.  Watch Jim Cooper, who follows.  He may be the weatherman.   [unless you remember Dylan's most favorite line ... from Subterranean Homesick Blues]