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Obama Healthcare "Reform" Being Rushed Through to Head Off Opposition

May 27, 2009 (LPAC)—The Obama White House is pushing to rush its "healthcare reform" into and through Congress much more quickly than most Americans realize, and to keep its details unknown as late as possible in the process, since the fascist denial of healthcare embodied in the plan will generate strong opposition as it is made public.

Obama plans an Internet speech to "nationwide house meetings" on June 6, to try to remobilize his campaign support base to demand healthcare "reform." That speech is supposed to follow by less than a week the "final report from healthcare stakeholders" (the ones, such as the HMOs and medical associations, supposed to cut the costs and cut the care) promised by Secretary Kathleen Sibelius for June 1. And Obama's national call is to precede by only a few days to a week, the introduction of a cost-cutting healthcare bill in the Senate, from Sen. Max Baucus and others.

Baucus has already held three, nearly day-long closed-door "working sessions" to prepare legislation; yet activist doctors interviewed by Bill Moyers on NPR May 22 said "There is no plan," meaning that the Obama plan is still a secret to even the most active and involved members of the public. Half a dozen members and staffs each from the House and Senate have had a meeting every Friday, for weeks, with Obama, Orszag, and others in the White House, and then between the two Houses, to "get healthcare done." Yet even some of the regular participants in those meetings report that they do not know what taxes are being considered to pay for extending insurance to the 50 million uninsured. This question is being deliberately obfuscated by the constant circulation of many proposals and rumors of a tax on employer healthcare benefits, a tax on non-profit hospitals, a regressive national VAT tax, more tobacco, liquor or other "vice" taxes, and others.

The HMOs, clearly, are going to be kept in their dominant place to "cut costs," as leading Democrats reluctantly admit. That fact damns the "reform" sham to cut healthcare to hundreds of millions of citizens, in order to absorb the immense costs of the financial bailouts to Wall Street, where the biggest HMOs were born.


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