Even the Repub leaders have said that if we don't do something about health care it will kill our economy. Even heath care providers are starting to lay off staff as fewer and fewer people can afford health care in this country. In ten years health care will cost more than twice as much as now and few if any companies will be able to afford it for their employees. So now that you cons with your insurance buddies help have killed any chance of HC reform now or in the future, what next. I can tell you what is next, the end of Medicare in 7-8 years. Health care providers will move overseas as fewer and fewer people here can afford health care and the providers will move to where the jobs are. We are now first on the list for how much health care cost per person in this country and 30th for our quality of health care. What the future holds for health care in this nation is that those that can afford it will be going to Britain, or France, or China , or even South Vietnam for their health care and the rest of the nation will go without. It is a dismal picture, but the health insurance companies are only worried about next quarters profits. The Repubs are only worried abou the next election cycle. They really don't care about the people in the US and it is only the stupid in this country that think they actually do.

The fight for healthcare reform is only just beginning and it's nowhere near over. If you look at the healthcare systems of the developed nations, you are looking at where the US healthcare system is heading.

I wish we had politicians that would quit accepting money from the health care insurance industry and pass a one payer system. Might as well shit in one hand and wish in the other, we know which will get filled.

You have to fill a politicians pocket with money to get their ears.

We need to stay vigilant, but the situation is not nearly as bad as the punditocracy will have you believe it is.

After all, if they had been right last year, mcCain or Hillary Clinton would be president. And you can see how that works.

Right now, the noisey insurance lobby fueled Town Hall protests are filling the TV screens.

And the polls show anxiety motivated in large part because the noisy right has had the field largely to themselves for the last three weeks.

But there have been some telling developments.

First of all, the media has been a little more proactive about exposing both the sources and accuracies of things like the "death panel" myth. The real money behind organizations like Freedom Works and 60Plus is also so well known that the right has had to make up ever more ridiculous rationalizations for dancing to the corporate tune.

People see this. Just as they saw the angry nuts who swarmed at Sarah Palin rallies last year.

It's also clear that the message machine has lost control of the monster it unleashed. With far right wing kooks showing up at Town Hall meetings armed, and many of the disruptors shouting things that have nothing to do with heath care at health care town halls, there's clear trouble in the air.

This noisy distraction will have its crescendo on September 12th, when the Tea bag crowd merges with the corporate astroturf on the Mall in DC. The procession of right wing extemism will be on dosplay for the entire world to see.

Second, it's becoming increasingly apparant that the Democrats are getting ready to go it alone, and pass significant health care reform without the GOP. The President is still speaking in bi-partisan tones, but it's clear that this is just an inclusive posture designed to aid the GOP defector when the time comes.

And defectors there will be.

The GOP has as much as admitted it. Late last week, we had Grassley and Coburn saying that the only way that Health Care Reform could truly be a bipartisan success is if the President got between 75 and 80 votes in the Senate.

Some on the left have been infuriated by this new talking point.

But drill down into it, and consider that that means that the GOP is essentially conceding that it won't be able to count on all the 40 votes it needs to block cloture. The GOP may be being shouted at by the angry mob fueled by the fake propoganda being fed to them by insurance company PR firms, but the polls on what people want for thier health care have hardly changed.

What's really left for them in posturing, which we're going to see a lot of for the rest of this year!