[quote=ocrenter]
That gets a little too tin foil hat for me. Don’t get me wrong, I think corporations have way too much access to the politicians and the lobbying is way over the top. But you are basically implying Rupert Murdoch is in bed with Big Pharma and the insurance industry. He first use FOX to brainwash all of the red states, then the health care lobbyists sneak in and prevent the implementation of the single payer plan…[/quote]

Just to keep all the competing interests straight in this mess, it’s not the “health care lobbyists” that are opposed to single payer. Unless you include insurance companies as part of the health care industry. I don’t think they should be. Their interests are not consistently aligned. Those (companies and individuals) who actually provide health care, hospitals, doctors, pharma, should see single payer as guaranteed cash flow. Medical insurance companies, on the other hand, would see their industry close to destroyed by single payer.

As to the premise of your comment, I think it’s more a matter of aligned ideologies rather than conspiracy. Private industry wants to keep the government out of the business of controlling their particular piece of industry. Big Pharma’s interest isn’t necessarily the same as the insurance industry. Conservatives want to keep government out of all private industry. So Murdoch doesn’t have to be in bed with any of them. Their ideologies and/or financial interests are aligned.