By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 13th, 2011
Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are once again in Washington, DC.
Are they demanding another bailout from their paid errand boys, our Washington politicians? No, they’re not demanding that…at least, not yet.
Representatives from the financial monoliths are in our nation’s capital to discuss how their shareholders can profit from America’s broken health care system.
In other words, Big Finance is seeking a new way to profit from your pain.
But there’s one obvious problem.
“Wall Street has no place in health care,” pointed out Dr. Margaret Flowers, a congressional fellow of Physicians for a National Health Program and organizer of the October2011 movement.
“[Wall Street is] responsible for the deaths and suffering of tens of thousands by turning health care into a profit center, rather than a system that provides for basic human needs,” added Dr. Flowers.
Dr. Flowers got inside the shareholder powwow and effectively tried to shame the investors into getting out of America’s health care system altogether.
Security officers ‘escorted’ Dr. Flowers from the corporate meeting, which was being held yesterday at a Marriott hotel in DC.
“I sat in front of the entrance where I was joined by 2 more protesters,” the doctor lated stated on the October2011 web site.
One of those protesters included “Adara [Scarlet], who shared the story of her father’s suicide which happened because of a health problem and the inability to afford care,” wrote Dr. Flowers.
“Dozens of October2011.org people were outside the hotel protesting,” declared the doctor. “They were chanting ‘Wall Street Greed Kills Those in Need,’ ‘No More Wall Street Health Care’ and ‘We Are the 99%.’ ”
“The protest lasted for several hours blocking the entrance to Marriott,” wrote Dr. Flowers. “Police did not make arrests. In fact, DC police have agreed to a 4 year wage freeze in order to maintain health benefits,” pointed out the doctor.
“That’s why…we are standing together to make the country and the world a better place for all of us,” continued Dr. Flowers.
“The October2011.org continues to occupy Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC seeking to shift power to the people and end corporate rule,” the doctor wrote.
Dr. Flowers is pushing for the bold step of employing logic to solve this problem. The good doctor is demanding nothing less than a publicly-owned health care system. In short, an improved and expanded ‘Medicare for All’.
Some reactionaries naturally will call such a move ‘socialized medicine’. And of course, they’re right–that’s just what it is.
But we at The American Spark really don’t care what supermarket label a system may possess. We only only care that it will further our individual and collective freedoms, that We the People will own and run it–and that it’s a proven system that actually works.
