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Week of August 9, 2009 - August 15, 2009

Obama's Inability to Articulate Healthcare Reform to the Average American Could Be Fatal


President Obama has been insightful in realizing that one of the tenants to ensure a robust and lasting recovery is a strong healthcare reform bill to ensure no one needs to be bankrupted by medical costs and to ensure that companies who provide medical insurance can do so in a deterministic way thus ensuring they can compete effectively with countries that do not place an inordinate burden of healthcare on private companies. Make no mistake, all positive social and humane changes in this country have been effected by Progressive Liberal Republicans and Progressive Liberal Democrats.

It boggles the mind why the Obama administration is incapable of articulating effectively that there are two major components to healthcare; One) paying for health care, a process tantamount to paying a bill that requires no innovation that morally should not be for profit, and Two) the delivery of healthcare, the process of treating, housing, and medicating a patient in which innovation provides for better healthcare justifying a profit motive in order to provide incentive. If that is understood, it is easy to dispel justifiable citizens' fears that the administration is trying to nationalize healthcare by illustrating that  private insurance skimming 30% or more of our premiums to pay overpaid executive, advertising, lobbying, and shareholder dividends is much more costly than one entity collecting all premiums and paying all insured medical bills.

Additional efficiencies garnered from doctors no longer having to spend time fighting private health insurance companies to provide requisite care to their patients will also increase the number of patients they can see thus reducing costs per patient further. This is not conjecture, this is a fact. Medicare with all its problems including fraud, the inability to negotiate for drugs, and an older sicker population is much more efficient than private insurance. All of this information is readily available and verifiable.

That said, if a Progressive Liberal President and a Progressive Liberal Congress with large majorities are unable to pass an effective healthcare reform bill with a strong public option, an option 72 percent of Americans still want and an option that will force insurance companies to be more efficient,  means that in effect we are becoming an oligarchy in which powerful private corporations with the assistance of small but very loud, vocal, and ill informed group of citizens will dictate a policy that continues a massive transfer of wealth using private health insurance system as the medium to do so. This will continue the process of the average American's loss of wealth. The question is whether we will come to the correct realization before the transfer is complete.

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