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WSWS Perspective
Obama’s health care agenda and the case for a socialist alternative
27 February 2010

Thursday’s televised health care summit in Washington ended without any agreement on the part of congressional Republicans to support Obama’s health care proposals. Whatever the wrangling between the two parties, however, all sections of the political establishment are committed to two basic propositions: (1) It is necessary to cut government spending on health care programs that benefit millions of people; and (2) health care services for millions more must be rationed so as to reduce the costs to the corporate-financial elite.

A socialist solution to the crisis—taking the profit out of heath care—is excluded from the official debate, which is based instead on the premise that people’s health should be subordinated to the accumulation of private wealth. This is what makes all of the intricate and mind-numbing schemes being cooked up by White House advisers and corporate lobbyists so irrational and backward. More…

Sheldon H. Laskin, in an article on CounterCurrents.org, questions whether Congress has the constitutional authority to require Americans to purchase a commodity from a private, for-profit corporation.

David Swanson cuts through the fog of Obama’s sellout on health care. As progressive members of Congress prepare to cave in to Black Reagan, Swanson reminds us that the money to provide medicare to every American citizen was looted by Obama earlier this year on behalf of Wall Street bankers and the war industry. Pretending we cannot afford medical care for everyone is as phony as Obama’s highly-touted commitment to education earlier this week.