Kuninich and Stupak Lead Democrat Charge To Kill Single Payer

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The Insurance Industry Is the Big Winner
by James Glaser
March 23, 2010

Democrat Representatives Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and Bart Stupak of Michigan were instrumental in giving other Democrats the cover they needed to vote for President Obama's Health Care Bill. I can just hear those vote changers say, "Hey Kucinich and Stupak voted for it, too."

It took something like a hundred years to pass health care reform in America, and the Democrats wouldn't even let the Single Payer system like most nations use, be a valid option for the country to look at. The fix was in, and the insurance industry is the big winner. Democrats worked so hard to pass something, anything, just so they could say they did it. Now you, I, and all of America will pay for this bill for the rest of our lives. And you know what? We don't have a choice, as it will now be the law that we buy a health insurance package from a private owned insurance company.

You know neither Party is going to bring up health care again, so this one great chance was blown on getting every American to buy private health care insurance under the penalty of fines, and the threat of the IRS involvement.

Here is where we all lose big time. Nothing in this bill limits or reins in the premiums the insurance companies can charge. The insurance industry gets tens of millions of new customers, and we can all thank Denis Kucinich, Bart Stupak, and the rest of the Democrat Party for passing this new law.

So, America continues to be the only nation in the industrial world that does not have universal health care mandated as a right. Oh, you didn't know? Millions of Americans will still be without health care insurance even with this bill passing. You see, we don't have a right to health care, we only have the requirement and burden to buy health care insurance.

Post Script:

Here is a little something from the L A Times, to let you see where the Democrats under Barack Obama are headed:

A Little Secret About Obama's Transparency

The current administration, challenged by the president to be the most open, is now denying more Freedom of Information Act requests than Bush did.
By Andrew Malcolm
March 21, 2010

The Democratic administration of Barack Obama, who denounced his predecessor, George W. Bush, as the most secretive in history, is now denying more Freedom of Information Act requests than the Republican did.

Transparency and openness were so important to the new president that on his first full day in office, he dispatched a much-publicized memo saying: "All agencies should adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure, in order to renew their commitment to the principles embodied in FOIA, and to usher in a new era of open government. The presumption of disclosure should be applied to all decisions involving FOIA."

One of the exemptions allowed to deny Freedom of Information requests has been used by the Obama administration 70,779 times in its first year; the same exemption was used 47,395 times in Bush's final budget year.

An Associated Press examination of 17 major agencies' handling of FOIA requests found denials 466,872 times, an increase of nearly 50% from the 2008 fiscal year under Bush.

As Ed Morrissey notes on the blog Hot Air, during a time of war and terrorist threats, any government can justify not releasing some sensitive information. And true, Obama had previously been a legislator, not an executive.

But why make such a big campaign deal over a previous administration's secrecy when you're going to end up being even more secretive?

On March 16 to mark annual Sunshine Week, designed to promote openness in government, Obama applauded himself by issuing a statement:

"As Sunshine Week begins, I want to applaud everyone who has worked to increase transparency in government and recommit my administration to be the most open and transparent ever."

However, a new study out March 15 by George Washington University's National Security Archive finds less than one-third of the 90 federal agencies that process such FOIA requests have made significant changes in their procedures since Obama's 2009 memo.

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