ER Daytrip Revisited

by Scott Creighton The controlled demolition of the economy of the United States in order to impose a “crisis” reaction to their devised collapse (privatizations) has spawned countless numbers of faceless victims, victims never heard from, victims who’s suffering is never seen. Though the robo-signing mortgage foreclosure fraud is indeed under-reported by corporate media, the [...]

Vt. House Passes Single-Payer Health Care Bill

from Common Dreams The Vermont House of Representatives passed a bill calling for a single-payer system Thursday afternoon, putting the state on a path to become the first in the nation to adopt universal access to health care. Lawmakers voted 92 to 49 after nearly two days of debate, including discussion on the floor until [...]

Obama’s Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick

by Chris Hedges, TruthDig A close reading of the new health care legislation, which will conveniently take effect in 2014 after the next presidential election, is deeply depressing. The legislation not only mocks the lofty promises made by President Barack Obama, exposing most as lies, but sadly reconfirms that our nation is hostage to unchecked [...]

Biden and Kucinich Spin Up a Modern Day “Fox and the Grapes” Fable

by Scott Creighton There was a time in this country when you could always count on Dennis Kucinich to stand up and speak out against the monied interests that have crippled this nation. Now he dutifully parrots Joe Biden’s talking points right on que.  And as cognitive dissonance goes, this one promises to set a new standard.

Like Water to Wine:The Miracle of Changing Neoliberalism into Populism, It is a Very “Big Fucking Deal”

by Scott Creighton “Today, I’m signing this reform bill into law on behalf of my mother, who argued with insurance companies even as she battled cancer in her final days“. Barack Obama In the Neoliberal Age, in Washington especially, all focus is concentrated on the appearance of a thing, rather than the substance behind it. That is [...]

Institutionalized Theft:A Clinton Family Tradition

by Scott Creighton  “A plague o’ both your houses“  We all know the “New Dems” and the DLC are the real power behind this phony “healthcare reform” fraud (what some are calling “The Road to Neofeudalism” or “20% of your labor belongs to Aetna“). So let’s just take a look at them, shall we. And who better [...]

Flashback:THE Notorious AIG

by Scott Creighton The United States mandates that contractors working overseas in hostile areas must have a kind of disability insurance, which they pay for out of their checks. AIG, the company that is connected with yet another Washington insider firm Goldman Sachs, is the insurance company that handles the policies. AIG has also been [...]

A Snapshot:”Grassroots” Healthcare “Reform” and the Insurance Industry Stocks

by Scott Creighton The public relation campaigns are in full swing doing their level best to try and prop-up some kind of grass-roots looking “movement” for this Obamacare Insurance Industry Bailout Plan. So I thought I would post a few pictures of their astroturfing demonstrations and along side of them some of the more somber “reality based” [...]

The Last Stand for Obamacare’s PR Campaign

by Scott Creighton It’s a remarkably well orchestrated effort going on right now to pass what is laughingly refered to as “healthcare reform” (read as “insurance industry bailout and Longevity Assurance Program”). First you have the senate version of the bill passed with all its massive entitlements for the insurance industry, including but not limited to; [...]

There is Still Time For Real Reform, Listen to the American People

[read Dr. Flowers open letter to President Obama after the break]

“Reconstructing Haiti” on starvation wages

(“Due to its poverty and relatively unregulated labor market, Haiti has labor costs that are fully competitive with China, which is the global benchmark,” Collier wrote in a UN plan for restructuring Haiti written 9 months prior to the earthquake and apparently being used as a blueprint for Bill Clinton’s neoliberal “free-trade-zone” based plan now.) [...]

What a Sad Week for Democracy

by Scott Creighton ***UPDATE*** (Five. I stand corrected. There are now 5 events from this past week that I should have mentioned. Please see the last one reported on by Glenn Greenwald at the end of this article.) What a week it was for our democratic freakshow. How many more shocks can our fragile egos [...]

Obama received $20 million from healthcare industry in 2008 campaign

Almost three times the amount given to McCain by Brad Jacobson, Raw Story While some sunlight has been shed on the hefty sums shoveled into congressional campaign coffers in an effort to influence the Democrats’ massive healthcare bill, little attention has been focused on the far larger sums received by President Barack Obama while he [...]

Healthcare industry stocks explode as bill progresses

by Glenn Greenwald, Salon The Senate passed its health care bill “by standing up to the special interests who prevented reform for decades and who are furiously lobbying against it now” – Barack Obama, December 21, 2009. ____________ “‘Healthcare shares rose on Monday as a bill to reform healthcare passed the first critical test in the [...]

Nurses Union: Senate Bill Isn’t Real Health Reform

by Michael Whitney, FireDogLake The National Nurses United, a brand new union created earlier this month and the largest professional group of nurses in the country, officially opposes the Senate health care bill.  NNU, a member of the AFL-CIO, slammed the Senate bill as a giveaway to the insurance industry that falls far short of real [...]