Reply #36: Hilarycare was a sop to corporate insurers [View All]

Yes, there will always be the Republicans standing in the way and trying to block any liberal/progressive reform. That's the nature of Republicans.

But if Washington wasn't such a corrupt mess, there would be a strong Democratic party fighting for the real interests of the people in a clear unambiguous way....And, most likely a strong Democratic Party, because positions like fundamental healthcare reform is WHAT THE MAJORITY OF THE POPULATION WANTS.

But because the special interests have rigged the system so much, the Democrats are beholden to Big Money and what we get is a tame contest between nasty Corporate Republicans and slightly nicer Corporate Democrats.

Despite the widespread public desire for basic healthcare reform in the early 1990's, for example, Hillarycare was just a bigger version of the same crap that the GOP rammed through as Medicare "reform" a couple of years ago. A convoluted mess that was so careful to placate corporate interests that the whole point got lost.

And it was Dems who helped deliver the death blow.

And for the rest of the 1990's, almost nothing was done to really address the problem. And still isn't.

That's just one example of how money has skewed the whole system.