Comments on: Lipstick on a Pig http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/lipstick-on-a-pig/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dogwood http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/lipstick-on-a-pig/#comment-50299 Dogwood Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:21:35 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=9263#comment-50299 Join singlepayeraction.org NOW! Join singlepayeraction.org NOW!

]]> By: Sean O'Neil http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/lipstick-on-a-pig/#comment-50268 Sean O'Neil Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:46:55 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=9263#comment-50268 Neither Barack Obama nor the US Congress will work on a nationalized (socialized) health care plan. Neither of them. Why? Because both Obama and the US Congress are bought-and-paid-for phonies who only pretend to have average people's interests in mind. I don't care what cute acronym or compassionate-sounding title is given to Obama's health care plan -- it will be nothing more than a reshuffling of who gets the biggest chunk of the health care profit pie. In other words, it will be thematically identical to Hillary Clinton's proposal back during the first term of Clinton/Gore. Neither Barack Obama nor the US Congress will work on a nationalized (socialized) health care plan.

Neither of them.

Why?

Because both Obama and the US Congress are bought-and-paid-for phonies who only pretend to have average people’s interests in mind.

I don’t care what cute acronym or compassionate-sounding title is given to Obama’s health care plan — it will be nothing more than a reshuffling of who gets the biggest chunk of the health care profit pie. In other words, it will be thematically identical to Hillary Clinton’s proposal back during the first term of Clinton/Gore.

]]> By: Billy Wharton http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/lipstick-on-a-pig/#comment-50226 Billy Wharton Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:23:59 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=9263#comment-50226 Readers, I must make a bit of an amendment to my original article. It seems I missed the absolute <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jun2009/db2009064_666715.htm" rel="nofollow">latest information</a> on personal bankruptcy. A reader sent a correction. I wrote that 52% of personal bankruptcies are due to health care debt. In fact, 62% are due to health care and 78% of those who filed a claim had health insurance. Readers,

I must make a bit of an amendment to my original article. It seems I missed the absolute latest information on personal bankruptcy. A reader sent a correction. I wrote that 52% of personal bankruptcies are due to health care debt. In fact, 62% are due to health care and 78% of those who filed a claim had health insurance.

]]> By: Bemused Observer http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/lipstick-on-a-pig/#comment-50216 Bemused Observer Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:45:46 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=9263#comment-50216 On the one side of the mouth is the expressed need to cut expenses in the medical system. On the other side is the need to maintain profits. Notice the contradiction, anyone? These people want affordable health care for the people as much as I want nuclear war. On the one side of the mouth is the expressed need to cut expenses in the medical system. On the other side is the need to maintain profits. Notice the contradiction, anyone? These people want affordable health care for the people as much as I want nuclear war.

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