Obama Prepares the Healthcare Sell-Out

Many people had high hopes for the presidency of Barak Obama. He was voted into office on a wave of popular support calling for “Change”. “Yes We Can”, was his battle cry and the people answered his call. But less than a year after taking office, these illusions are beginning to fade. Obama’s administration has, for the most part, been business as usual. He has continued the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The US is sliding deeper and deeper into a recession and dragging millions of people into poverty with it. Now it is becoming clear that he will break one of his key election promises – to provide healthcare coverage to nearly 50 million people who have no insurance.

The hysterical mobs whipped up by the right wing at the healthcare town hall meetings have clearly rattled the white house. They are already preparing the ground to back down on any meaningful change to the healthcare system in the United States. Key people in Obama’s administration are now coming out saying that the “public option” is not essential to their plan and covering all uninsured Americans has never been the top priority. Any idiot can read between the lines and see where this is going.

The President is backing down. Millions of Americans can kiss goodbye the hopes of seeing affordable healthcare coverage out of this administration. This will not be a surprise to many on the left. After all, the Democratic Party is a party of big business. Until working people in the United States organize their own party to represent them, the big corporations will continue to get their way and the working class will continue to get shafted.