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David Plouffe, who writes for barackobama.com, sent this:

Subject: Swiftboating health care

Eric --

We knew healthcare reform would face fierce opposition -- and it's begun. As we speak, the same people behind the notorious "swiftboat" ads of 2004 are already pumping millions of dollars into deceptive television ads. ...

And here I thought the deceptive television ads were by the Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama campaigns during the primary season, and the DNC after one single-payer-never front for for-profit illness squeezed out the other single-payer-never front for for-profit illness, and the transition point from the Bush-Cheney state-secrets / wiretap / torture-is-lawful wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the Obama-Cheney state-secrets / wiretap / torture-is-non-prosecutable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The deception that the right-wing of the Democratic Party would deliver more than a feel-good moment, a "yes we can deliver pigment but not policy" change, and in particular ...

If not the health care that European elites allocate to their populations out of the GDP created by their populations, at least something closer to what the Anglo-Saxon elites in the UK and Canada allocate to their subjects.

Of course, Comrade David Plouffe was looking for a hand-out, because ... without it he'd be unemployed, looking at $319 a week in UI benefits and $267 in COBRA premiums¹, which he would of course forgo, being a twenty-something O-bot.

There's a reason Indian Health Service is so low on the federal totem pole, it just wouldn't do if Indians got single payer while the rest of the "Rainbow Coalition", less the red stripe, is stuck with single sucker.

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¹A report issued on the same day that the government released its latest unemployment data shows why most laid-off people are likely to lose their health coverage: The average national premium costs for family COBRA coverage consume almost 84 percent of average unemployment benefits.

The report, issued by the consumer health organization Families USA, focuses on the unaffordability of COBRA coverage, which allows laid-off workers to retain their employer-based insurance if those laid-off workers pay the full cost of that coverage.