Healthcare Reform: Why Now?

This from CommonDreams.org

A perspective on Healthcare Reform that begs consideration. Why now? I see the reform movement as a huge distraction from what America needs, which is to decrease spending and focus on cleaning out the hubris on Wall Street, which is continuing to run rampant (even pick up steam), while our democratic society is threatened on every front.

Yes, our healthcare system is a crock. So, is our government. Putting congress in charge of revamping healthcare now allows them to ignore or put aside the more pressing and revealing issues of how Wall Street gained control of US policy. Hint, look toward the Federal Reserve.

Please read.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/10/14