{"id":10302,"date":"2009-08-13T05:18:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T10:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10302"},"modified":"2009-08-13T05:18:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T10:18:14","slug":"paul-street-blue-cross-and-blue-dog-democrats-reflections-on-health-reform-under-the-unelected-dictatorship-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10302","title":{"rendered":"Paul Street: Blue Cross and Blue Dog Democrats: Reflections on &#8220;Health Reform&#8221; Under &#8220;The Unelected Dictatorship of Money&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paul Street, ZSpace, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zcommunications.org\/zspace\/commentaries\/3949\">12 August 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United States&#8217; &#8220;representative democracy,&#8221; crippled by &#8220;too much [corporate and military] representation and too little [actual popular] democracy&#8221; (Arundhati Roy) abounds with Kafka-esque, Orwellian, and Vonneguttian absurdity.  Take, for one example among many, the determination of the United States Congress&#8217;s fifty-two &#8220;Blue Dog Democrats&#8221; [1] to de-rail any sort of mildly robust public health insurance plan that might be able to remotely counter the nation&#8217;s for-profit health insurance firms.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zcommunications.org\/zspace\/commentaries\/3949\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Related<\/em>:<br \/>\n<strong>Dave Lindorff: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackagendareport.com\/?q=content\/progressives-should-be-shutting-down-these-so-called-health-care-town-meetings-too\">Progressives Should be Shutting Down These So-Called &#8216;Health Care Town Meetings&#8217; Too<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Street, ZSpace, 12 August 2009 The United States&#8217; &#8220;representative democracy,&#8221; crippled by &#8220;too much [corporate and military] representation and too little [actual popular] democracy&#8221; (Arundhati Roy) abounds with Kafka-esque, Orwellian, and Vonneguttian absurdity. Take, for one example among many, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10302\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2Ga","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10302"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10307,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10302\/revisions\/10307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}