GREEN PARTY U.S. SENATE CANDIDATE CALLS “HEALTH CARE REFORM” BILL ANOTHER WALL STREET BAILOUT
For Immediate Release
March 23, 2010
Contact: info@voteforduane.org
ANAHEIM, Calif — Duane Roberts, Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, condemned the “health care reform” bill passed by the House of Representatives last Sunday calling it another Wall Street bailout. As Senator, Roberts vows to repeal it and push for a single-payer system to eliminate the private health insurance industry:
“The so-called ‘health care reform’ bill rubber-stamped by Congress over the weekend is in reality nothing but a rotten scheme to bailout Wall Street billionaires who made huge investments in private health insurance companies that now face declining revenues as a result of a rapidly shrinking customer base.
“Since 2000, private health insurers have lost more than nine million customers and corrupt Democratic Party politicians have come to their rescue with this scam to prop them up by forcing millions of new people to purchase their defective, over-priced policies and subsidize their obscene profit margins with public funds.
“I’m proud to say my first act as California’s next Senator will be to repeal this latest half-trillion dollar taxpayer giveaway to Wall Street billionaires and introduce legislation in Congress that will lead to the creation of a universal, single-payer ‘Medicare-for-all’ typehealth care system within the United States.
“By getting rid of Wellpoint, CIGNA, Aetna, and other private health insurers, taxpayers and consumers will save hundreds of billions of dollars each year that were wasted on profiteering and inefficiency — money that could be better spent guaranteeing everybody in this country has access to the high quality health care they need.
“I believe health care to be a fundamental human right deserving of all people and not a commodity to be sold at a profit to the highest bidder; I call upon all Californians who agree with me to support my rising U.S. Senate candidacy and join my campaign to drive the private health insurance industry out of business for good.”
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Orale Duane. Keep raising the REAL issues.
At first I was mad and there was a lot I was going to say, but… I think I realize that you’re not serious, that this is just theater. Protest theater. Let me know if I’m wrong.
Beyond that, here’s my comment from last night:
http://orangejuiceblog.com/2010/03/remembering-terry-crowley/comment-page-1/#comment-121634
Hi Vern:
First, there is no need to be mad at me because nothing I post here is meant to be personal against you or anybody else. Although I’m sure some of the things I write do get people angry at me, I’m more interested in engaging in thought provoking discussions. I tend to stay away from all the mudslinging that goes on in the “blogosphere.”
Second, I’m dead serious. If I were a Senator, I would do everything I possibly could to repeal the corrupt Democratic Party’s half-trillion dollar taxpayer bailout of the private health insurance industry in favor of establishing a universal, single-payer “Medicare-for-all” type health care system. Is that bad?
As I alluded to you before in a previous message, the phony, baloney “health care reform” bill that our corrupt Democratic Party President signed into law the other day is modeled on legislation proposed or backed, in some circumstances, by some of the most reactionary elements of the Republican Party in the early 1990s. {1}
The bill Obama put his signature on was so rotten and stinky that even Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton and a well-known Democratic Party apologist, was actually forced to admit on his blog — albeit in a very weak and timid way — that it was “a very conservative piece of legislation”:
The thing I find ironic is that Democrats have been cheerleaders for legislation that a decade ago was being championed by Republicans. My only explanation for this is that the private health insurance industry couldn’t get the Republicans to pass the legislation they wanted, so they got the Democrats to do it instead.
NOTES:
{1} For example, see the following links:
http://www.scpr.org/news/2010/02/15/republicans-spurn-once-favored-health-mandate/
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/23/1544321_individual-health-insurance-mandate.html
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008213
{2} See the following link:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Money/Robert-Reich-s-Blog/2010/0322/New-health-care-bill-Biggest-change-since-Medicare