A recent poll concludes that voters want a health care bill that includes a public option and a Medicare buy-in. 57% of Independents, 88% of Democrats, and 22% of Republicans favor that kind of bill. But the bill Americans are going to get from Congress does not include either option. Is it that the politicians do not care what the citizenry wants? Quite likely. It's not the will of the people, it is the will, and more importantly the MONEY, of the insurance/pharmaceutical industries and their lobbyists. All too often, when it's voters vs. lobbyists, it is the lobbyists who who carry the day.
I doubt that this what our Founding Fathers had in mind.
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