Re: Obama Plan for Internet?? - Nooooo!
What do "Americans have against universal healthcare"? Americans in general have a lot of ignorance and propaganda-think on display many areas, health care being one of them. The controllers of the health care debate are of course the upper management of Aetna, Kaiser, Wellpoint, et al. Their corporate profits are maximized when they charge as much as possible in premiums whilst paying as little as possible in health claims. Obviously, the insurers' interests are the opposite of those of patients seeking care. Which is why not-for-profit (read: nationalized) health care works quite well, and private-insurance healthcare doesn't work as well as packing sour baboon droppings in a festering head wound.
BUT, inasmuch as nearly all Republican legislators and many Democrat ones are well and truly owned by corporations, "Obamacare" could only pass the House and Senate if it included fat, sticky wads of cash for the private-insurance corporates. What do "Americans have against universal healthcare"? The overmastering will of the oligarcharchs, of course.
The same dyanmic may well drive the US to the bottom of the Intertubes access statistics -- it's more profitable to shaft consumers with high rates and skimp on capital investment than to build solid internet infrastructure. Someone mentioned the interstate highway system as a parallel -- that system was built in the 1950s. USA don't do that no more. It's SOCIALISM, don't you see. And we can have that here.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
