Funding Public Health Care With a Publicly Owned Bank: How Canada Did It
by: Ellen Hodgson Brown J.D., t r u t h o u t | Feature
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Jill Granberg, Alistair Howard)
The story goes that Churchill offered a woman 5 million pounds to sleep with him. She hedged and said they would have to discuss terms. Then he offered her 5 pounds. "Sir!" she said. "What sort of woman do you think I am?" "Madam," he replied, "we've already established that. Now we're just haggling over the price."
The same might be said of President Obama's health care bill, which was sold out to corporate interests early on. The insurance lobby had its way with the bill; after that they were just haggling over the price. The "public option" was so watered down in Congressional deal-making that it finally disappeared altogether.
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