Big Business should LOVE Single Payer and fight for it!
Posted by: Tracie
on Jan 20, 2010 
I've been writing and trying to explain this to anyone that would listen all damned year. If we can kill Hellcare, we have a chance at a REAL chance for single payer. Obush will not have the power to keep single payer off the table next time, I just can't imagine him managing to pull that off twice. And there will be a next time because the problem isn't going away, it'll only escalate. That bullshit of "it's our only chance ever" is nothing more than fear propaganda to push the sheeple into accepting financial slavery. Next time Big Business will most likely throw their full weight and money behind campaigning for single payer because it benefits ALL businesses, except of course the MIP complex, by relieving them of the burden of insuring employees ( plus production rises when people can see a doctor before they drop in their tracks). Right off the bat their profit margins rise and the ones in the production sector (as opposed to service, like plumbing companies) can now compete better internationally. This could feasibly create jobs. Big Business didn't back single payer this time because they're not going to campaign for something that's not up for "election". But people like us helped lay the groundwork. I told an Obamabot in Boca, who is of the notion that we have to pass this atrocity because if the Republicans take congress we'll "never" get a chance at healthcare, that it doesn't really matter if the Republicans take congress. Because single payer will mean billions to business, that means the money will flow into congress' coffers to get it passed, doesn't matter which party they are. This is one of the incredibly rare instances where the interests of the people and the interests of business coincide. If we can just get to the opportunity... We do need to be talking to Republicans about single payer being pro-business and fiscally conservative/deficit neutral. Especially now, since they're going to be taking back a hell of alot of seats very shortly. However, I'm afraid this horror may be shoved through no matter what. Besides my own dark suspicions of a few Republicans with no re-elections coming up voting yes (Republicans that are retiring and want to look forward to a cushy Insurance exec job in return for the favor of delivering the nation into their maw), I have now read at least 6 articles in just the last 24 hours that outline several (at least 4, not including my theory) different ways the scumbags can do this. They range everywhere from just shoving through only the Senate version (possibly before Brown is officially seated) to simply taking most of the components and sticking them in the federal budget and shoving it through that way, without the fanfare of passing Hellcare officially. I'm seriously afraid these insanely corrupt monsters may get what they want, no matter what.
