Watch PBS tonight---Bill Moyer's Journal--health care

Many of you already know this:

Bill Moyers' Journal Friday evening, May 22, PBS (check local listings) Why single-payer health care isn't among the health-care reform plans under consideration. Guests include Donna Smith (California Nurses Association), Dr. Sidney Wolfe (Public Citizen) Dr. David Himmelstein (Physicians for a National Health Program).
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Why single payer is not covered in senate and Obama healthcare discussions? My opinion and solely my opinion:

incompetence and ignorance (single payer details are not widely known). We can always question some of the congressfolks competence by the way for intelligence is not a major factor in getting elected.

Most of the folks making decisions are members of oligarchy (s) of power--Wall street, Insurance companies, HMOs and on and on. Hard to crack down on your country club buddies.
You can add, none wish to be the foes of the big boys of Wall Street and we all know "voters have short memories".

Equally hard is to turn down those lobbists of the healthcare industry that spend billions to make sure that American Insurance bottomlines are the best in the world. After all, we all know that politicans take money from total strangers and owe them nothing in return.

---by the way, some of the insurance companies hit with record fines the last few years. Know who pays? Not the insurance companies, you do via higher costs. They can deduct fines off taxes and raise prices to cover expenses and deduct them as well. Sounds linke someone earned a big bonus.

Of course, the companies whom have insurance companies administer the funds know the shell game; but being part of the contry club elite--they do nothing except shift higher costs to the workers.

In a way, the insurance, drug and HMOs are taxing you all (and me too) for the gutless ones on capitol hill wishes to lie about taxes. Big business can and does tax you as well as the government.