The debate over the public option in the health care reform campaign dances around the real issue, the reason the vast majority of Americans want it: The nation has become the playground of corporate predators through 30 years of deregulation. We desperately need protection.
It's not just the health care industry. And it won't change until we take back our democracy from elected officials who routinely get more money from private interests to win and keep their jobs than salaries from taxpayers once elected — representatives who spend up to half their working hours hustling de facto bribes instead of governing — in guess whose behalf?
