Post by unlawflcombatnt on Aug 6, 2010 13:31:54 GMT -6
from Salon.com
March 22, 2010
Actual socialist weighs in on "socialist" health bill
Party co-chair slams healthcare reform
By Alex Koppelman
"If you listen to damn near everyone on the right these days, you'll hear that the healthcare reform bill that the House passed last night is "socialism," or "creeping socialism" at the very least. In reality, that claim just doesn't hold up. Just ask a socialist, like Billy Wharton, who's the co-chair of the Socialist Party USA.
The Socialist Party just e-mailed reporters a statement from Wharton in which he slams the bill, saying it's not reform but is "instead a corporate restructuring of the American healthcare system designed to enhance the profits of private health insurance companies disguised with the language of reform."
I'd say we should alert Glenn Beck about this, but I have a horrible vision of that leading to some new conspiracy theory about the White House getting Wharton to release this statement as a false flag sort of thing, and some very convoluted chalkboard drawings.
The full press release:
"This is not a healthcare reform bill," says Wharton, "It is instead a corporate restructuring of the American healthcare system designed to enhance the profits of private health insurance companies disguised with the language of reform"
Instead, Wharton believes that public funds would be better spent in creating a national single-payer system.[/ul][/i]
March 22, 2010
Actual socialist weighs in on "socialist" health bill
Party co-chair slams healthcare reform
By Alex Koppelman
"If you listen to damn near everyone on the right these days, you'll hear that the healthcare reform bill that the House passed last night is "socialism," or "creeping socialism" at the very least. In reality, that claim just doesn't hold up. Just ask a socialist, like Billy Wharton, who's the co-chair of the Socialist Party USA.
The Socialist Party just e-mailed reporters a statement from Wharton in which he slams the bill, saying it's not reform but is "instead a corporate restructuring of the American healthcare system designed to enhance the profits of private health insurance companies disguised with the language of reform."
I'd say we should alert Glenn Beck about this, but I have a horrible vision of that leading to some new conspiracy theory about the White House getting Wharton to release this statement as a false flag sort of thing, and some very convoluted chalkboard drawings.
The full press release:
"This is not a healthcare reform bill," says Wharton, "It is instead a corporate restructuring of the American healthcare system designed to enhance the profits of private health insurance companies disguised with the language of reform"
Instead, Wharton believes that public funds would be better spent in creating a national single-payer system.[/ul][/i]