The entire health care "debate" in 2009 was a diversion to keep the country from discovering the facts on health care which are extremely damning to both (political) parties. This is resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people who are being denied health care to satisfy a global trade agenda. Americans are being sacrificed on the altar of trade policy that they know wont work in the end because jobs are quietly going away due to automation. So privatization and the alleged prosperity that is supposed to emerge from 'progressive liberalisation' by developing countries and the US is shameless cow-pie in the sky.
Instead trade deals, especially GATS and TiSA intentionally and systematically block everything that can save money in order to prevent single payer and virtually everything that would save money- to maximize the value in the supply chains so to speak. It seems they want a crisis that only the bitter medicine of letting them sell us out will be proposed as a cure. A similar attack is being mounted against public education - globally!
This extreme dishonesty raises serious questions for me about all incumbents fitness to lead.
The radical neoliberal agenda is not aimed just at us in the US, no, we are collateral damage in a global campaign to export the 'succeessful' privatized US health care and education models.
On the eve of the massive economic changes caused by automation which will raise the skills requirement to find employment tremendously, they are trying to end affordable public health care and education.
Here are two papers that tell the story, one new one old..
Read this one first: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.405.5725&rep=rep1&type=pdf
The second one is about TPP and Canadian health care but much of it applies to the US as well, and the parts that dont are educational -
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/major-complications
i would also encourage people to check out other writing on trade by Scott Sinclair, its author, he's very good and his writing on trade subjects is among the best out there.
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