Down with Obamacare 

Down with Obamacare

In Congress there are 88 members of the Single Payer Caucus.

If they were to use the muscle their numbers give them, they could let it be known loud and clear that they will not vote for the bills now about to come forward from Committees in the House and Senate. These bills are an abomination. They are a testament to the utter failure of the Democrats and of Obama, their president, to meet the actual health needs of the American people.

Since their votes are absolutely crucial for Congresswoman Pelosi and Senator Reid, such clear and resolute opposition to Obamacare by the Single Payer Caucus would put an end to the whole health care debate charade put on by the entrenched Demo-publican political class – a class, or call it a clique, that is driving America down the rat hole, not only on this issue but on every other major issue, domestic and foreign. 

This decisive action could jump start a real debate over health care and single payer would take center stage.  Even on Fox news! We’d have a people’s debate about single payer – up or down. The pharmaceutical and health insurance corporations would be thrown on the defensive. Such action would arouse a powerful flood of popular action that would at last force the political clique to listen at last and to give way.

But the members of the Single Payer Caucus won’t do it. Instead they will follow the lead of Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY). He is maneuvering to get a vote on single payer in the House. He has hopes of getting Pelosi to arrange a floor debate and vote on his single payer amendment. 

Sound good?  Not at all. It’s a maneuver. Yes, we’ll have a debate, a seeming debate, performed in order to make single payer proponents feel good. The Single Payer Caucus can say, hey we tried. So Pelosi can schedule a debate on single payer, a vote can even be taken, single payer will predictably lose and then all 88 members of the Caucus will come together with Pelosi and the other Democrats in the House to vote for an abomination. Maybe some will even hold their noses.

There is only one answer.  On the health issue, the work and fight for single payer must and will go on. On the big issue behind this issue, the work and fight must go on to replace at the polls and to contest in the street and in the halls and classrooms of the country the ruinous politicians and politics of the dominant political class (aka clique).  It is time for America to turn to the Green Party.

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