it's a fact that mistakes are made by doctors and when doctors make mistakes there are long term and expensive consequences for the patient involved. without single payer or universal healthcare, how is the injured patient supposed to pay for future healthcare or support themselves while they recover, if they can recover?

we don't limit the liability of the guy who rear-ends you do we?

is the magic money fairy going to pay for their rehab?

the system is already so stacked against people who have been the victims of medical malpractice that ONLY meritorious claims get pursued. it's hard enough to win even if you have the facts on your side because the insurance industry will fight the claim tooth and nail.

oh, and studies already show that states enacting caps and other various forms of tort reform don't necessarily see any reduction in premiums. hell, the insurance companies don't make real money off the premiums anyway. they want the money to invest in the stock market.

i'm all for getting rid of the tort system if those proposing it agree to free medical care and a guaranteed living income...

bill moyers was on bill maher the other night saying that rahm emanuel intends to fund his democratic majorities with money from healthcare and wall street, hence, we are seeing wall street friendly bailouts and regulation, or lack thereof, and secret deals with pharma not to negotiate drug prices and the like.

they want to have their cake and eat it to...

that's why they keep telling progressives to pipe down and the minimum amount of lip service to public option to keep the "left wing loonies" under control.

moyers made another obvious point, but one that cannot be stated often enough, which is the democrats are just as much in big businesses pockets as republicans. while they were out of power they purchased, and it's astonishing how small some of these bribes seem, by Health Inc.

nader made the same point in his ill-fated 2000 presidential run, that there was very little difference between democrats and republicans, and he was mocked and scorned. he was dead on!

on an issue with such moral clarity, healthcare for their very own real life constituents, the needs of Health Inc. are still disproportionately influencing this debate through outright bribery.

Corporocrats.

i'm proud to be an asshole from el paso

we don't take our trips on lsd

we keep our women virgins till they're married

cuz hosing sheep is good enough for me...

not surprising.

and people wonder why we're having such a hard time obtaining universal healthcare...

i watched the youtube of nixon and kennedy tpm had up comparing their two healthcare plans back in 1970.

here we are almost 40 years later and nothing has been done.

i was surprised to see that nixon's plan was more progressive than anything republicans have suggested on just about anything in my lifetime.

"we don't want the safety net [of healthcare] to catch too many people."

it is twice as hard for liberal policies to be enacted because they rarely result in benefit to our corporate rulers.

it's what's wrong with kansas on a national level.

liberals are not and have never fought on a level playing field.

as FDR put it, progressives have always

[sic] had to struggle with the old enemies of peace; business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred.