President Obama is so keen on playing nice that he is screwing up health care reform.  Today, Obama announced that he wants health care to pass with 60 votes in the Senate.  This decision will guarantee that health care reform will not be good.  It will be compromised to such an extent that it will look like Medicare Part D which is nothing more than a windfall for drug and private insurance companies. Undoubtedly, health care reform will end up looking awful as well.  Why did any of us thing otherwise?  Republicans or Democrats — it just doesn’t matter — they all get their money from the same special interests.  Unfortunately, the voters are always the losers.

Obama has decided to cave to big business: health insurance companies, big pharmaceuticals, and greedy providers.  He is sacrificing ordinary Americans on the alter of greed-based capitalism.  It is clear Obama does not care that for profit health care will bankrupt America and not provide decent, or even adequate, health care for all the people.  Why does he care? — Obama and his family get the best health care and always will — just like Cheney the Dick does.

As America Doomed has pointed out, watch the stock of health insurance companies if you want to get a real time assessment of how health care reform is going.  These stocks are going up and show no sign of being worried about health care reform.  Even before there was any legislation, the health insurance companies bought Senators and Representatives with their contributions.  Thus, America losses, again.

America is doomed.