   Why didn� �� � t Obama and the Democrats tell you all this? Why does Obama continue to diss single-payer, as he did to the American Medical Association, and as he continues to do, claiming it is not in the American addition, as though he never heard about Medicare?
  Well, as a matter of fact, some people in Congress, notably Reps. John Conyers (D-MI), Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh), Anthony Wiener (D-NY) and 83 other members of the House are pushing a bill, HR 676, which would do exactly what I� �� � m suggestingexpanding Medicare to cover everyone.
  It is being opposed by the Congressional leadership to the point that advocates at one committee hearing were ejected and arrested for even mentioning the term single-payer. With the blessing of the White House.
   Clearly, Obama and the Democratic Party and Congressional leadership are in bed with the health care profiteers. Otherwise, why wouldn� �� � t they at least have the Congressional Budget Office do a formal analysis like I just did here in simple form? Clearly too, they think we� �� � re just too stupid to understand that higher taxes to pay for single-payer would be more than compensated for by the amount of out-of-pocket savings we� �� � d realize if we didn� �� � t have to pay for health care on our own.
   There is no other excuse for failure to do the obvious, and have America adopt some version of the kind of health care system that has been proven to be more effective and far, far cheaper than our own in every other developed nation in the worldand in many less developed nations, too.
   My question: How long are we going to stand for this crap?
DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia-based journalist. He is the author of � ���"Marketplace Medicine: The Rise of the For-Profit Hospital Chains� �� � (Bantam, 1992) and more recently of � ���"The Case for Impeachment� �� � (St. Martin� �� � s Press, 2006). His work is available at www.thiscantbehappening.net
  Well, as a matter of fact, some people in Congress, notably Reps. John Conyers (D-MI), Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh), Anthony Wiener (D-NY) and 83 other members of the House are pushing a bill, HR 676, which would do exactly what I� �� � m suggestingexpanding Medicare to cover everyone.
  It is being opposed by the Congressional leadership to the point that advocates at one committee hearing were ejected and arrested for even mentioning the term single-payer. With the blessing of the White House.
   Clearly, Obama and the Democratic Party and Congressional leadership are in bed with the health care profiteers. Otherwise, why wouldn� �� � t they at least have the Congressional Budget Office do a formal analysis like I just did here in simple form? Clearly too, they think we� �� � re just too stupid to understand that higher taxes to pay for single-payer would be more than compensated for by the amount of out-of-pocket savings we� �� � d realize if we didn� �� � t have to pay for health care on our own.
   My question: How long are we going to stand for this crap?
DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia-based journalist. He is the author of � ���"Marketplace Medicine: The Rise of the For-Profit Hospital Chains� �� � (Bantam, 1992) and more recently of � ���"The Case for Impeachment� �� � (St. Martin� �� � s Press, 2006). His work is available at www.thiscantbehappening.net
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