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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 12:00p Eastern
Sick and Wrong
Chat with Matt Taibbi about his latest Rolling Stone article. Hosted by Jane.
How Washington is screwing up health care reform — and why it may take a revolt to fix it.
via The Seminal » TAIBBI: Special Book Salon Today – Sick and Wrong – 12pm ET.
I’ll be chatting at FDL this afternoon. Jane Hamsher hosting.
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Democracy’s greatest enemy has always been itself and its inability to deliver the correct action for the right reasons without being influenced by special interests, be they corporate, social, etc.
Once democracy shows that it cannot deliver on the ‘change’ needed, the clock is ticking, people start gathering in secret, and ‘enemy’ lists get compiled.
Our media has become a salve to anesthetize our reasoning, making such blatant legislative neuterings like the current health care debate more acceptable and almost ‘normal’. In western democracy, policies that would benefit the vast majority are almost non-existent now, except for the usual tax cut-sluttery that leads up to every election.
It used to be a mark of pride that american democracy was based upon reasoned compromise, but now the only compromises being made are on principles and not how to enact better, or in this case long overdue, social policies.
Transcript?
I missed it. When is the transcript going to be available?
Matt:
Another astounding piece in RS, on a par with your expose of the Wall St. meltdown, if even more depressing. As I posted on a BB, we went from the gov’t providing an OPTION other than private insurance if you don’t want it or can’t afford it to gov’t herding us into the ARMS of private insurance, mandating that we have it. If that isn’t one of the biggest subversions of our democracy in recent history, I don’t know what is.
You deserve a Pulitzer for both pieces. Keep it up.
-tony
BTW Matt did you see this? It’s Geithner arguing why we shouldn’t be allowed to audit our own Fed. Awesome. That makes sense.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/giethner-fed-audit-would-be-problematic-country
Good work; wish it made me feel all better. Thanks for giving it to us [the way you feel is] straight, doc.
You and Anthony Weiner need to lock everyone in the chamber, turn off the air conditioner, and unlock the doors only when we get a single payer medical system.
Barring that, we all need to push for at least a public option. Big Pharma’s corporate influence in the government – specifically the legislature is gonna be a huge hurdle to jump. It ain’t only GOP reps that have pharmaceutical $ in their funds.
I know I was in the middle of the woods all summer, but there was internet available. So it was surprising and annoying to hear about the arrest made at the finance committee gearing. Were there meetings at 2 in the morning that shoved through clauses as well?
{http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all) I came across this article in reference to the placebo response in patients in another blog. This needs to be part of the conversation as well, since placebos are giving medications a run for their money.
Some nitpicking: you mentioned that we don’t have private armies. Well, we don’t have publicly sanctioned private armies, be Xe/Blackwater comes to mind.
peace
(http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all)
there; that’s better.
In response to another comment. See in context »Your health care piece in RS is bad ass. Well done, Matt.
You ask how they sleep at night?
Silly Matt, she and other blood suckers of her ilk do not sleep at night – that’s when the feed on the living.