Obama vs. Big Healthcare

Barrack Obama tried to pitch his plan for the need for healthcare reform to the American people last night, and may have missed the plate. While he clearly stated his case for the need to reform healthcare costs to ensure the long-term health of our nation's economy, he did little to motivate those who wish to delay or quash any action on the subject, despite a majority of Americans wishing for some substantive healthcare reform to take place.

Over the last few weeks the President has taken flak from every side with a stake in this project and mentioned some of the partisan attacks last night. He could have done better the Center for Responsive Politics has compiled a list of recipients of cash from Big Pharma, HMOs, Doctors and all related industries. Call out Max Baucus and the rest of the obstructionists as to how much money they haved taken from insterests that profit from the system as it is.

This dilemma points to the great battle looming, the decorruption of the political process. We need further campaign finance reform, perhaps moving toward a publically financed campaign system so as to freeze the corproate money and lobbying out of the political process. If we can do that we can