Firedoglake: Why the White House Probably Doesn’t Want a Public Option

Scarecrow in Firedoglake .. saying what most of us have already known for weeks, whether we want to admit it or not…

This President has filled the White House with people who have no inclination to pose any major challenge to the economic power of America’s dominant financial industries … We’ve already seen this in their dealings with Wall Street investment banks … [and] we’re seeing it now with efforts to shield the major health and insurance industries from any fundamental challenge. Sure, there are changes being offered, new regulations being proposed, and more people will be insured than before. But there is no framework being laid for a new structure for how health care is delivered and paid for in America. That is the pattern of this White House, and there is little basis to expect otherwise

.. read more – mab

 

 

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