Yeah, this was a great appearance, and Weiner deserves credit for taking some leadership on single-payer, but he still needs to be pressured, and heavily. According to a friend of mine who works for Healthcare-NOW (a single payer organization), he still doesn’t quite understand the issue as well as he could (and doesn’t quite understand the fact that there is a mass movement out there supporting single-payer), and there is a possibility that his resolution might not substitute HR676 for the House leadership “reform” bill. But still, it was great for someone with some stature make an effective argument for the disappearance of the private health insurance industry.
(5:20) A few awkward seconds of stunned silence followed by, “I’m astounded by your question, because your question is suggesting, that there’s no need to have a country that’s run on free market principles…”
What should astound Joe is not the question, but his inability to answer the suggestion. If the insurance industry nets $230 billion and he can’t explain why they deserve it, then perhaps there’s no need to have a country run on “principles” that demand that society’s producers give a lion’s share (or for that matter anything at all) to the owners of capital who produce nothing?
What’s not astonishing about Joe’s stunned silence is that it suggests that there’s no rational basis for capitalism.
I posted this and I recommend Part 2 as well. It’s highly articulate — if only Obama had the muscle to make a similar literate argument.
I think Weiner is doing a great job.
Yep, Weiner lets Scarborough have it. If the people like him were the majority of the Democratic party, it might be worth saving. But unfortunately……
Yeah, this was a great appearance, and Weiner deserves credit for taking some leadership on single-payer, but he still needs to be pressured, and heavily. According to a friend of mine who works for Healthcare-NOW (a single payer organization), he still doesn’t quite understand the issue as well as he could (and doesn’t quite understand the fact that there is a mass movement out there supporting single-payer), and there is a possibility that his resolution might not substitute HR676 for the House leadership “reform” bill. But still, it was great for someone with some stature make an effective argument for the disappearance of the private health insurance industry.
(5:20) A few awkward seconds of stunned silence followed by, “I’m astounded by your question, because your question is suggesting, that there’s no need to have a country that’s run on free market principles…”
What should astound Joe is not the question, but his inability to answer the suggestion. If the insurance industry nets $230 billion and he can’t explain why they deserve it, then perhaps there’s no need to have a country run on “principles” that demand that society’s producers give a lion’s share (or for that matter anything at all) to the owners of capital who produce nothing?
What’s not astonishing about Joe’s stunned silence is that it suggests that there’s no rational basis for capitalism.