When is health care reform not health care reform?

June 3, 2009 -- When it's a snow job. (Thanks to Ron Knox, Sun, 07 Jun 2009, for this item.) See: How Pharma and Insurance Intend to Kill the Public Option, And What Obama and the Rest of Us Must Do.

Note the new term of art... we no longer talk about a "single payer". Now it's "the public option."

Senator Olivia Snowe, "...well-respected and considered non-partisan, and [who] therefore offers some cover to Democrats who may need it" has proposed a Byzantine set of conditions under which "the public option" can take place and probably won't. In other words, she and her cronies can look like they're fixing our desperately broken system while in reality defending Big Insurance/Big Pharma's hegemony.

Robert Reich has it right: "Big Pharma and Big Insurance are gaining ground in their campaign to kill the public option in the emerging health care bill."

It's time for Ms. Snowe to get out of the way and for government to step in and make sure we all get the health care we need, at prices we can afford, paid for fairly and equitably. No Snowe jobs!

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