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Anne & Lynn Wheeler <ly...@garlic.com> writes:
> ACA and like ilk have been peddled on "single payer" ...  to address the
> enormous rise in costs and profits by the health care industry.

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#100  Barb
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#101  Barb

Progressives and Conservatives Agree: Single Payer Healthcare Is
Inevitable
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-stone-md/progressives-and-conserva_b_676488.html
http://pnhp.org/blog/2010/08/10/progressives-and-conservatives-agree-single-payer-healthcare-is-inevitable/

Everyone loves to pick on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and well they
should. This 2,000+ page contraption, this heap of handouts to the
special interest lobbyists with a few shiny baubles thrown in to placate
the common folk, was not only written by the for-profit health insurance
industry but now will be implemented by former WellPoint/Anthem Vice
President Liz Fowler who actually penned much of the law in her role as
Max Baucus' chief healthcare counsel for the Senate Finance Committee.

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lots of articles from 2010 about ACA primarily handouts for special
interests ... but all that seems to be forgotton now.

Sick and Wrong; How Washington is screwing up health care reform -- and
why it may take a revolt to fix it
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/sick-and-wrong-20100405

Fully $350 billion a year could be saved on paperwork alone if the
U.S. went to a single-payer system -- more than enough to pay for the
whole goddamned thing

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past posts referencing washington politics as "Kabuki Theater" ... what you
see has very little with what is really going on ... more like Roman
Circus to distract the public
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater

also "Kabuki dance"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki_dance

Representative Rosa DeLauro, a Democratic member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from Connecticut, also used the term to refer to the
Republican Party effort to repeal the 2010 health care reform act,
telling reporters, "It's a kabuki dance. The fact of the matter is we're
not going to repeal it.

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if all the medical & drug industry special interests that were the
primary beneficiaries of ACA really were against it, it would have never
passed (and on the off-chance it managed to pass, it would have been
immediately repealed).

Kabuki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki

This article is about Japanese theater. For American political pretense,
see Kabuki dance. For other uses, see Kabuki (disambiguation).  Not to
be confused with noh theater.

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