This Partnership of Profiteers is Washington politics at its worst a handful of cynical self-interests using cloaks, dark money and lies to rig the system for corporate profits at the expense of human health and political morality.
As former President Lyndon Johnson used to say about special interests trying to get his support to pass some blatantly self-serving legislation: "I may not know much, but I do know the difference between chicken sh-t and chicken salad."
Yet, chicken manure is all that the corporate health complex has to work with as it frantically tries to defend its current system of mass malpractice. After all, as most Americans have learned the hard way, the corporatized "care" of profiteering insurance giants, Big Pharma and hospital chains grossly overcharge us while constantly trying to shortchange or outright deny care to millions of our families.
So, unable to win public support on their own merit, the corporatists and their hired political hacks are going all out to continue their profit gouging and keep control of America's dysfunctional system. They're running a multimillion-dollar PR and lobbying campaign of lies to trash and kill all reforms that would deliver quality, comprehensive care to everyone, at far less cost than they can deliver.
The profiteers masquerading as a Partnership for America's Health Care Future warn ominously that such reforms as Medicare for All and a public option for health insurance would take away people's "choice" and their "control" over health care.
Hello ... we presently have no choice or control. Our "care" is managed by a handful of drug and hospital monopolists whose primary objective is not improving our health but fattening their profits. And the undeniable, ugly truth is that the "Partnership" fattens its profits by shortchanging our care.
That's one reason the American Medical Association and others are dropping out of the "Partnership's" political front. Honest health care practitioners don't want to be part of its fraud and its chicken manure PR campaign.
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