Obama Hustles the Public for Greedy Private Insurers
Barack Obama may go down in history as one of the great presidential con men of any century. Meanwhile, the insurance industry will emerge vastly more powerful, buttressed by newly-created public-private structures…This should have been the year for single payer, or something close enough to it that the real deal might be achieved in another year or two. Some optimistic folks still think real health care reform can be resurrected sometime soon to replace Obama’s disastrous legislation. But that would be extremely difficult. Obama is establishing a private system backed by the federal government that will envelop virtually every citizen. The insurance industry will emerge vastly more powerful, buttressed by newly-created public-private structures nearly impossible to dismantle absent a general political upheaval in the United States.
