a.k.a., "single payer"

"Obama's Marxist Allies Move on Healthcare, Socialist Agenda"
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Democratic Socialists of America, is despite its deceptive name is the U.S.'s
largest and probably most influential Marxist based organization.

Many of its several thousand members operate through the Democratic Party,
New York's influential Working
Families Party and the organization also counts thousands of of
labor unionists, religious activists, journalists and college professors
in its ranks.

D.S.A. helped establish and continues to support the more than 80 strong Congressional
Progressive Caucus and is particularly close to "single payer"
healthcare champions Rep. John Conyers of
Michigan and Caucus founder Senator Bernie Sanders of
Vermont.


Dr. Quentin Young of Chicago is the father of the "single payer" healthcare lobby in the U.S. he is also a former Young Communist League member, a long time
D.S.A. activist and a one time personal physician and long time friend
and mentor to Barack
Obama.

President Obama, himself has a more than 25 year history of involvement with D.S.A. members.

D.S.A. means to use its considerable power and influence to push for completely
socialized health care in the U.S. in the next few years.

Writing in the latest
issue of Democratic Left, D.S.A. National Director Frank Llewellyn
outlines some of the tactics the organization will employ to bring all
U.S. healthcare under direct and complete state control.

The first step is to move public opinion in the "correct" direction.

In DSA we never expected more than the passage of an imperfect bill that we could work in coalitions to improve... DSA has been fighting
for a singlepayer, Medicare-for-all approach to national health care for
more than two decades. We expect to continue to fight for that
approach in a number of states, especially in California, as the state
legislature has passed single payer legislation in the past, only to
have it overturned by a gubernatorial veto.

DSAers in every state and city should be prepared to rebut distortions with
letters to the editor and op-eds that talk about what socialism really
is – and what true social democratic public provision would look like,
particularly when health care is the paradigmatic public good that
markets, let alone for profit oligopolies, simply cannot justly and
affordably supply.

Next step is to punish or remove those remaining Democratic legislators still opposed to
socialized healthcare.

Progressives must now work to ensure that some conservative Democrats who did not support the final bill will be punished with primaries or even third party
challenges. In New York State, for example, the Working Families Party
(WFP) threatened to withhold support from, or actively oppose,
representatives for whom the WFP provided winning margins in the past,
but who voted “no” on the health reform bill. And the labor
movement also vowed to remember how people voted on this issue in this
year’s election cycle. Those of us committed to true public provision of
health care can reunite by participating in such efforts.

Llewellyn cynically acknowledges that Obamacare will create its own constituency.

Politically, passage of the bill is a positive step. First, because it keeps open the possibility of passage of other reforms in this Congress, and
second, because it should create millions of new stakeholders in
a health care system governed by democratically established rules
rather than by the fiats of private insurers.

Lewellyn is clear that the private insurance industry is marked for destruction.

The Right will attempt to use the bill’s shortcomings to generate public sentiment for repeal; progressives have to use those same shortcomings
to generate public support for more short-term improvements, and
in the long term to build support for the elimination of private
insurers.

He also explicitly links healthcare to the other items on the Marxist agenda, financial regulation,
immigration "reform" (amnesty), bailouts for distressed home -owners,
massive Federal aid to city and state governments and the scaling back
of U.S. military commitments.

But passage of the bill does keep the door open for popular movements to demand strict financial regulatory reform, immigration reform, massive
aid to states and localities, and a much-needed public jobs program. DSA
and the larger progressive movement must create street heat in favor of
these anti-corporate measures, as well as for a just resolution to the
foreclosure crisis, and an end to United States involvement in
Iraq and Afghanistan.

D.S.A. , together with its Communist Party, labor and Democrat allies will not stop until the
entire U.S. economy is under state control and/or direction.

In an article in Democratic
Left, Spring 2007 D.S.A National Political Committee member David Green of
Detroit wrote;

What distinguishes socialists from other progressives is the theory of surplus value. According to Marx, the secret of surplus value is that workers are a source
of more value than they receive in wages. The capitalist is able to
capture surplus value through his ownership of the means of production,
his right to purchase labor as a commodity, his control over the
production process, and his ownership of the final product. Surplus
value is the measure of capital’s exploitation of labor

Our goal as socialists is to abolish private ownership of the means of
production. Our immediate task is to limit the capitalist
class’s prerogatives in the workplace...

Obamacare will not achieve that noble goal, but it is certainly a fine start.