tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post4077622931179358555..comments2023-11-05T03:25:20.581-08:00Comments on STOP THE MADNESS: CHAPTER ONE. WHY DEMOCRACY FOR AMERICA SHOULD NOT SUPPORT OBAMA’S PUBLIC OPTION PLANRick Staggenborg, MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16587630200799702811noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post-42382314603122779342014-03-26T20:40:51.219-07:002014-03-26T20:40:51.219-07:00I am glad you agree, Deb. Thanks for reading and c...I am glad you agree, Deb. Thanks for reading and commenting, I wish more people had paid attention at the time!Rick Staggenborg, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587630200799702811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post-9147030231457369772014-03-25T10:59:36.626-07:002014-03-25T10:59:36.626-07:00YES!
YES!<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00928562242481851839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post-53927455395068651012010-03-13T18:25:49.649-08:002010-03-13T18:25:49.649-08:00This first essay was written on the Democracy for ...This first essay was written on the Democracy for America website in response to a challenge to win a scholarship to their NetRoots Nation conference in Pittsburgh. It is essentially a protest of their having told the public that their purported million members supported the public option bait-and-switch presented by the Democratic leadership under the guise of reform.<br /><br />Ultimately, my blog became popular enough to win a partial scholarship to the convention, though only the winners got public recognition. At the convention, I confirmed my suspicion that all of the members I met would support single payer if asked, even if they signed on to promote the "reform" proposed by the Democratic leadership that was withdrawn as I predicted in response to the expected chorus of howls from the medical insurance industry who also claimed to want "reform."<br /><br />I have great respect for DFA founder and chief political consultant Howard Dean, but I would have even more respect if he would tell the story of how the public option strategy was developed. It was clearly a strategy designed to mollify the corporations comprising the medical-industrial complex. According to knowledgeable sources, Rahm Emanuel shut Dean out of the plannning despite his great work for the Party in getting Obama elected, then gave him his marching orders after the plot was hatched.<br /><br />You know the players in the medical industrial complex. They are the ones who paid so handsomely for such stalwarts of reform in the Senate as Schumer, Baucus, Kerry and the "Gang of Six" with whom Senator Wyden stood when he called to "slow down" the process of "reform." Meanwhile, he worked behind the scenes to block the toothless public option and get his own bailout scheme on the table.<br /><br />Did you hear about his Healthy Americans Act, Wyden's mandate plan to be paid for on the backs of the American worker? When unions complained, he used some of that corporate moneyy to demonize them in a Portland radio campaign. So much for Party loyalty among the Demicans. You can't tell them from Republicrats without a scorecard.Rick Staggenborg, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587630200799702811noreply@blogger.com