According to Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the Democrats’ health reform legislation is basically a sham.
Appearing on MSNBC’s The Ed Show on Friday night, the House’s most unabashed progressive condemned Democratic leadership for removing his amendment that would allow states to create their own single-payer systems. Then he called the entire legislative package “a bailout for insurance companies.”
Under a single-payer system, like those in Canada and the United Kingdom, the government pools taxpayer funds to pay for citizens’ health care and fees are not collected by health care providers. The Kucinich …

The change towards an open White House and legislative transparency promised by President Obama is seeming more and more like campaign rhetoric than “change you can believe in”. The White House has been denying that meetings with big pharma occurred and that deals were struck. However, as the Huffington Post released in August, there clearly were meetings and arrangements being made behind closed doors. There is no denying that health care reform is needed, but at what cost? The arrangements that were made show that the likely cost would be …