They really don’t disagree …

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According to this story from NPR 73% of doctors surveyed want a public health insurance option. (Survey published in the New England Journal of Medicine and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.)

So what did the US House waste time on yesterday? Why the “censure” of Republican Representative Joe Wilson!

Every minute blown off on telling someone not to interrupt the president’s speech could have been used to hammer home these twin realities: the public overwhelmingly supports a government run, public health insurance option (77% felt the public option was important or very important in this survey); and doctors overwhelmingly support a government run, public health insurance option.

But what the fuck does the public in general or doctors specifically know? None of us are insurance industry lobbiests.

Actually I think it all just goes to prove a point I’ve made on a reasonably regular basis: the DC Democrats and their “leadership” really don’t disagree with the Republicans on very much … and nothing of game changing import.

They would much rather tend to big money’s interests with distracting moans about Obama being called a liar then they would tend to the people’s business.

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  1. Thanks to Crooks and Liars for this one (Brave New Films video included):

    “I would go to CIGNA and they would tell me I had bronchitis and give me medicine and send me home. No matter what medicine they gave me I wouldn’t get better. Then the CIGNA Director called me up and she told me that there was nothing wrong with me at all. I called the doctor, and I came with my film and my CAT scan and he just put it in, it took exactly thirty seconds. He told me, ‘You have cancer,’ and he said the reason CIGNA did not want to give you your records is they’ve known right way back for years that you have cancer and they’re not going to treat you.”

    The poster points out

    CIGNA took in $19.1 billion dollars in revenue last year, with a $292 million dollar income. That doesn’t include the salaries given to people like CEO Ed Hanway. He made a cool $12 million last year, and over the past five years he took in $120 million. Hanway has $28 million in unexcercised stock options. The company corporate jets, also not seen in profit statements, cost $68 million. This money is gained, as former communications director Wendell Potter says in this video, through denying claims and dumping the sick, enhancing the value of the company for Wall Street investors.

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