Hey Senator Jeff Merkley, would you represent my pathetic backwoods, "let the healthcare industrial complex screw me for the foreseeable future" state too?
The supposed good guys in the Senate are standing by and sitting on their thumbs, letting the "blue dogs" kill reform. They are complicit, and comfortably so because they also depend on big money from big pharma, managed health care and the insurance industry. If it were only the "blue dogs" then it shouldn't stop reform, because it only needs a majority vote. The right is hammering the public with fear mongering and strawman tactics like the citizenship meme. Why don't the dems hammer back with questions like, "So the GOP would like to push you farther into the pit of unsupportable heathcare bills?" Well, they would, but they are also in bed with big business.
A small number of senators from states with very small populations are taking away our choices and forcing us into a position as a captive market who must pay whatever the industry demands because there is no check on them--no supply and demand balance because there will always be a demand--we would rather not die right away. What are we going to do? We have no competing choice.
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