By Jack E. Lohman
If there was ever any doubt that corporate money was
driving our politicians, the latest HillaryCare proposal
will eliminate it.
Hillary Clinton says she's learned a lot since the 1990s,v
and indeed she has. Those who thought the Republicansv
had a lock on the insurance industry's money should
have learned as much. Of all political money contributed
so far, Hillary is the top recipient of the insurer's largess,
even when including Republicans.
Thus, rather than eliminating the inefficient middleman
insurance bureaucracy, which unnecessarily drains 31%
of our healthcare dollars, she wants to protect its place in
our lives.
So don't count on meaningful health care reform under
her watch. She wants to leave the current employerinsurer
bureaucracy alone, and add subsidies for those
who have no insurance. Of course those subsidies
eventually end up in the insurance industry's pockets
(wink, wink).
This says just about everything you need to know about
our corrupt political system.
But wait! Open it up, conservatives say. Let them give to
their heart's content, but mandate full disclosure!
Ridiculous. I don't want to know who is bribing my
politician, I don't want him or her bribed in the first
place. I don't want to track who received what bribes
from whom, just to determine whether they are
controlled by special interests I agree with. I don't want
them controlled by anybody, other than the public they
work for. I want to vote for or against their ideas, not
their cash flow or by which industry they've been bought
by. I want them managing the people's interests, not
those of the industries that fund their elections.
Is it too much to ask for non-conflicted government
representatives? This isn't Mexico or some third-world
country, though it will soon become such if we don't
stop the costly political corruption.
There are only two types of political money, public and
private.
For politicians to support ideas that are in the
best interest of the public, the public must be the funders
of their campaigns. Not the other guys. And at $5 per
taxpayer per year ($10 at the federal level), that'd be one
terrific bargain.
In Arizona and Maine, where voters passed their
campaign reform laws by the initiative process, roughly
70% of their elected officials ran (and won) under the
Clean Money system. A handful of politicians with
corporate backers still object, but they'll likely be
replaced soon.
It is particularly interesting that Wisconsin Republicans
are clamoring to reduce the very taxes that resulted from
the high-flying days of the Republican/Thompson
regime, when government giveaways to corporations
were commonplace. But the last thing they want to see is
a reduction in the private interest cash that helps them
get elected, so campaign finance reform is nowhere on
their agenda.
Getting re-elected has become more important than
running the state and doing the people's business. It's my
guess that only a major political turnover in our state
will fix our system, so let's get on with it.
All organizations, government and private, need
leadership that is owned by the shareholders, and in the
government's case those are called taxpayers.
With publicly funded elections the budget debate would
be over, spending and taxes would be reduced, and
Healthy Wisconsin would have been modified to satisfy
businesses and the public alike. The insurance industry
would have licked their wounds and moved on to other
profitable ventures.
With publicly funded elections, it really wouldn't matter
which party was in control because the politicians would
always put the public's best interest ahead of all else.
And they'd go home holding their heads high. How
refreshing.
http://www.throwtherascalsout.org/ (political advocacy)
http://www.businesscoalition.net/ Business Coalition for
Single-Payer Healthcare (a founding member)
http://www.moneyedpoliticians.com/ (Book site: "Politicians -
Owned and Operated by Corporate America")
http://www.wicleanelections.org/ (Describes the benefits of
public funding of campaigns)
Blog: http://moneyedpoliticians.net/
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