The symbolic line has been drawn in the sand on the fight for REAL healthcare reform! Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus refused to invite not one advocate for single payer to the so-called Healthcare Reform hearing! The HMO's and other parasitic ilk were there and treated like royalty by Baucus and the rest of the corporate owned Finance Committee!
When eight physicians, nurses, labor activists attempted to question Baucus why single payer had been intentionally left out, they were removed from the room and arrested! So much for REAL CHANGE! So much for Free Speech! Is anyone still naive enough to believe that we have a real democracy in the U.S.? Think again!
While the snub by Baucus and arrests were not pleasant, they were actually needed! People on the left need to read their history books. Progress made by the labor and civil rights movements did not come about by sitting down and chatting with elected officials. This progress did not come about from any profound court ruling either. The changes that did come about were done because people demanded such! People engaged in mass demonstrations, sit in's , sit down strikes, general strikes, civil disobedience, boycotts and other get in your face tactics! We must do the same if we are truly serious about getting REAL Healthcare Reform!
Single payer is the only viable solution and the corporate parasites are doing what they can to deny us our existence! They have bought off some very naive neo-liberals and fooled others. May 5, 2009 should go down in history as the beginning of the REAL Healthcare revolution! Government snubbing, arrests and never ending negative remarks from neo-liberals and Repub conservatives will not deter
us! Just remember: "The revolution will NOT be televised!"
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