Healthcare Bill passes

Yes, I got my email from President Barack Obama too. It described the historic nature of the bill's passing that has been fought over by conservatives and progressives for nearly a century [or so the email claims].

However, the truth is, it's a piss-weak compromise based on American prejudices about socialised medicine, a woman's right to choose [eroded even more], and the insurance cabal's determination to wreck any reform to maintain their literal death-grip on the health of every citizen, for the sake of their obscene profits.

To call it historic Mr President is a little premature since it has to now pass the senate, where the insurance criminals are massing their fire, using what leverage they have with all the corrupt politicians [mostly republican, of course, but democrats too] that take the insurance bribe, to vote no, to filibuster, or to threaten.

Whatever, it is a weak bill. The 40,000+ Americans that will die this coming year because they don't have health insurance, just won't realise how historic it is.

Although I'm sure their families will offer all those 'dedicated politicians' who stayed up to 11:15 pm last night to pass this luke warm excuse for a citizen's universal right to healthcare, a swift and non-too-kind "fuck you very much!"