Who's Telling the Truth?

Maybe neither Joe Wilson nor President Obama. Maybe it's Dennis Kucinich.

KUCINICH: Well, the president gave a great speech. No one gives a better speech that President Barack Obama. But when you look at the details of the speech, private insurance companies are going to get at least 30 million new customers mandated. People will have to buy private insurance — first time that’s happened in the history of America. And the government is going to subsidize those people who can’t afford it.

Now, what this means is inevitably the money’s going to go over to the insurance companies. We’re investing in the wrong people. We should be investing in a system where people have not just basic health care, but where they have vision care, dental care, mental health care, prescription drug, long term care covered. We could do that with the system we have right now.

Instead, the insurance companies are being given a huge break. The pharmaceutical companies are getting a windfall because we still haven’t dealt with the Medicare Part D problem, where the government doesn’t negotiate a price with the pharmaceutical companies for this program like Veterans does and knocks down the price of pharmaceuticals.

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The costs are not going to be sustainable. Inevitably, you’ll be talking about cutting benefits to people. This system is another — it’s a bailout for insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies.

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Wall Street created a crash — the government came back and gave Wall Street trillions of dollars. We rewarded the bad actors. The insurance companies have driven up the cost of health care with the premiums, the copays and deductibles that have wrecked the family budgets. They’re being rewarded.

It’s just the way our system works, but it’s the wrong approach, and we’re rewarding the wrong people, we’re investing in the wrong people. We ought to be mindful of the concerns of the American people and not the concerns of the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical companies. They’re still in the game, and frankly with this bill, looks like they’re — they’re pretty much the game.

  Raw Story

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.