Obamacare has led to a windfall for Big Pharma, Big Insurance and Big. Med. My partner's an oncologist. She says Private-non-profit facilities have lost all their funding to medicaid expansion...good for blue-state citizens, but all the non-profits are being swallowed up by for-profit hospitals. Yep, they blew it.. again...and hears why;

I won’t have time to listen to the podcast ‘till late tonight in the car…but in answer the question posed in Thom’s first hour; “Who's really manipulating the new world order? And why….?” I can only say I know this unequivocally and I cannot say how.

Lee Fong eluded to it recently on Thom’s show when he referred to a story in the NYTimes re. the “U.S.” (it should really be called, the Global Chamber of Commerce) literally threatening Pres. Obama, saying something like “all cards are on the table” if he used his executive authority to force transparency re. campaign spending. Thom’s reply was a stunned (paraphrasing here); “You mean they threatened to blow up the Whitehouse?!” The “U.S.” Global Chamber of Commerce is nothing more than a giant money laundering operation used to control and manipulate U.S. and Global policy. Their goal is no longer just to make money. They aren’t stupid, they know they already have not only more than could be spent in 10 lifetimes, but that they could literally outspend the amount of resources left on the planet. Their goal is to make sure that the global elite are the only ones who have access to what few resources are left on the planet and to build up the global security state sufficiently to protect themselves from the lowly masses at any cost.

Members of Congress who are concerned about this have eluded to it for years. I believe it was Chuck Shumar who said re. the banks; “Frankly, They own the place.” Even Pres. Obama is quoted at the beginning of every episode of Ring of Fire on FSTV saying; “You can’t change Washington from the inside, you can only change Washington from the outside”. Problem is, if you make enough noise to be heard on the outside, they use their tight control of mass media to ignore you and recently federally granted military might to shut you down. Just this a.m. Amy Goodman had on a father of 4 who is going to jail for 2 years for standing on public property outside a drone base to exercise his 1st amendment rights. Trying to change either major party from within would literally be like trying to change the mob from within. Organized crime now controls most, if not all the biggest multinational corporations…especially the security/defense industries and the banking industry. They, through outsourcing have seized control of the CIA and NSA and much of the State department and the Pentigon. And let’s not forget the Mob’s infamous ties to the casino industry (Sheldon Adelson..just try and tell me he isn’t in w/ the Chinese Mob). And of course there are the Kochs, who are so powerful they can fend off the mob, but if you ask me, they figure it’s easier to join ‘em then to beat ‘em.

Well known MI5 Whistle Blower, Annie Machon, has stated on RT’s ‘Breaking the Set’ , that the NSA and British intelligence keep files on elected officials that those officials aren’t permitted to see. Threatening to expose them or their family members, or recreate them digitally into an image that, well, let’s just say it would not be in the “image of God”, is why Democrats will never push back hard enough. This is why Democrats play “dumb”. So why do we waste our time, asking ourselves over and over again, why Democrats aren’t better at messaging? They are not stupid, of course they could message well and campaign on populism, if they knew they could get away with it…but they’d be squashed like bugs if they dared try if getting elected might actually lead to the possibility of getting progressive policy implemented. They are only aloud to speak about populist issues as long as they can’t actually accomplish anything…and the ubiquitous Corp. Media would completely ignore them. To usher in the Financial industry’s Goddess in 2016, the appointer of one Victory Nooland as Assist. Sec. of State (married to notorious Neocon Robert Kagan, co-founder of the Project for a New American Century) you can bet that sHillary Clinton will be campaigning big time on populism against, yep good ‘ol Jeb. Another Bush V Clinton ticket. How Quaint. Don’t fall for it!!!

This is only one reason why Barak Obama will never emulate FDR. That, and the fact that the U.S. no longer has access to or control of enough global resources to address our crumbling infrastructure significantly, and the facts that in the last 100 years, the population has exploded and become one entirely dependent for it’s very survival on industry. Industry, now corrupt beyond recognition, no longer needs us, nor has the desire to take care of us. When we no longer can buy the stuff they have made us dependent on, they will stop providing it and we will be left like helpless infants to fend for ourselves off the raw, unyielding land. Yes, the meek shall indeed inherit the Earth, what’s left of it, that is. Most of us do not have the resources or skills necessary to live off the land in the event the ‘Crash of 2016’ (great Book, Thom) that will lead to the collapse of industry. This collapse could well bring down the grid…which would lead to many melt downs at nuclear power plants, which, idiotically enough, are built to supply all the power they generate to the grid without first taking what they need to function. Why this flaw in design? Good question.

150 years ago, most American’s kept warm with wood. Can you imagine 315,000,000 people chopping down trees to burn wood in America? Let alone the fight for land to grow food when climate change combined with industry is draining the water supply at record speed. In the documentary ‘Call of Life’ (playing on FSTV lately) many scientists lay out precisely why a completely sustainable energy paradigm sufficient to meet global demand will be impossible 20 years from now. They say half of all species on Earth will be gone by then, and we may well be one of them. Sollutions? Check out Carolynbaker.net Zeitgeist.com & thevenusproject.com , start gardens, solar initiatives, wind initiatives in our communities? Yes! Absolutely! Never Give up. But maybe instead of bitching about republicans who are corrupt and deluded into believing they’ll be invited to the party at the end of the world, and instead of scratching our heads re. why the Dems refuse to be truly progressive, we should get our heads out of the sand re. the bigger picture and be talking about what we can actually DO NOW!

It’s no coincidence that “austerity” (ever wondered who coined that one?) is being pushed simultaneously all over the world. The names of the NWO string pullers?.. some are easy to find, many not. The organizations?.. many NGOs, the WTO the IMF the World Bank … not too hard to guess. Greed knows one obstacle; self-preservation. I think they have the technology to do one of, or all 3 things. 1)Leave the planet 2)live in the planet 3) build contained biospheres on the planet . How else can one explain their deliberate actions to deplete and destroy the Earth’s water, air and food supplies as fast as possible, other than mass genocide and population control?

My gosh, the Reagan/Clinton Dems have been working hard against all progressive policy proposals for years. We can't implement single-payer insurance because the nation took a turn in the opposite direction, embracing the "You're On Your Own" agenda. As it is, middle classers are still having conniptions about people living the good life on (sub-poverty level) welfare, some 15 years after the last welfare check was issued. Our problem is with our inability to clarify who is "deserving," who isn't, and why.

Thom, one of your other "home states" is also working on Single Payer...Oregon. And we just might have it shortly after Vermont.

I have been fighting insurance companies now for close to a year! They do everything possible to obstruct, to make getting care as difficult as possible. And, for the life of me, I cannot figure out why they are necessary! They do nothing for health care...they don't set broken bones, they don't prescribe meds, they don't do physicals, they don't even soothe a sore throat. The only thing they do is take our money and, sometimes, pay part of a medical bill. Even after the ACA was enacted insurance companies still deny services. My husband has been attempting to get a problem first diagnosed...nearly impossible because insurance wouldn't allow needed tests...then when we finally got the diagnoses we have to wait until January to have the life-saving procedure! With Single Payer this problem would have been diagnosed and treated last June!!!

Basically I am not all that happy with the ACA because it didn't address the concept of insurance which is totally not needed in the first place! But I am very glad that people who have never before been able to see a doctor can now do that.

Reply to #4: Kend, spare us the whining about your Canadian system. In Canada no one is bankrupted by medical bills and left out in the street, or dead. Compared to that, waiting six months for a knee of hip replacement -- without an ugly-ass bill to look forward to for the grand finale -- would be a piece of cake from our point of view. You're complaining to the wrong people. Don't be expecting any sympathy from us. - AIW

Sandlewould, Your information is very well taken, thank you for taking the time. I was in total agreement with Tom's blog concerning Obama's shortfall on not demanding single payer, it was a sell out to the insurance industry and buying off Joe Lieberman. Lieberman represents Hartford, Conn which has the disinction of having the most insurance company home offices in the world. In looking for FSTV on my DircTV if find it simply does not exist. The channels run 347, 349. RSTV 348 is not listed on menu. Why is this? RT does not exist either. I live in Dallas area in Texas and Hartman is not available either on TV or radio, but Beck, Limbaugh and other right wing and religious nit wit stations are. What gives.

When Mike Baucus was put in charge of the Senate committee to set up the ACA, he never mentioned single payer, he was a paid tool who i wrote 5 years ago and told him he needed to have a T shirt made that said "I am a chicken shit Republican" and wear it. His passing this miserable excuse for a health care bill got him a promotion to the Ambassadorship of China. Go figger, like you say mafia type government.

Alice. Of course they go bankrupt here how do you work with a bad knee, hip, or shoulder. Alice poeple die here all the time because they are waiting for health care that is what happens when it is rationed. We are also taxed to death here. You have no idea how expensive free health care is. Please don't get me wrong I don't want your system but Canada has the only the only true single payer system in the world. Everyone else has some sort of mix. We both need something in between. Here you can buy smokes booze and drugs but you can buy better health care and to me that is just wrong.

SINGLE PAYER: I've been saying this for years, along with all liberals and progressives, that were deeply disappointed when democrats chose to stand behind a healthcare plan that republicans and big business wanted (essentially legislating like republicans, rather than democrats the people voted for). The glaring problem of course is is that obamacare is centered around for-profit insurance companies.. Democratic apologists defending obamacare say they tried and were shot down rings hollow, because filibuster-proof majorities that Democrats had in the House and the Senate during that time..

"""The fact that insurance companies do get rich off allowing or denying health care payments, though, is at the core of what’s wrong with our healthcare system. It’s the reason why we spend so much more on healthcare than any other developed country in the world, and it’s the reason why people continue to get screwed over by their insurance companies despite the new protections in Obamacare."""

As a physician with more than a little slant to liberalism, I have to commend Thom... he nails all of the issues except for two: 1) Medicine often crosses state lines! I work in St. Louis and nearly 40% of our patients are from IL. So whatever system we come up with in MO will not apply to IL patients; and 2) States do not have the resources of the Federal Gov't to run budget deficits. It is quite clear that if we chose to fight illegal wars for more than a decade while decreasing taxes on the wealthy, the Federal Gov't can run as much deficit at is choses. States don't have that luxury. These are the most important reasons why we need a single payer, Federal Gov't sponsored system called Medicare for ALL! All we needed to do back in 2008 was to allow the age for Medicare start at birth and allow richer Americans to buy as much Medicare supplemental insurance as they want. We don't need the exact system of Canada but need to make health care our number one priority. So to say I was a "little disappointed" by the way our Dems sold us out to Big Pharma, Big Insurance would be the understatement of the year. We lost maybe the only opportinuity of my lifetime to provide healthcare for every American, not just the ones who can affort it.