Apparently, the Obama administration and the pseudo Democrats on Capitol Hill continue their absolutely abominable machinations regarding health care "reform" in the hope that regular Americans won't notice or won't care or both.

Their disdain for the American people is blatant.

However, Susie Madrak over at Crooks and Liars weighs in with two pieces that expose the ongoing Washington hypocrisy on this important issue.

The first: "You know, I'm not a Democrat to protect our politicians. As far as I'm concerned, they're little more than tools to execute the policies I support. But I know not everyone else feels that way, and that's why it really makes me furious to see them use people by promising one thing and delivering something completely different - you know, like this expensive mishmosh of a healthcare "reform."

"The Kathleen Sebeliuses of the world, those timid souls who can be found out in the middle of the road hugging the center line with the rest of the road kill, can go take a flying leap if they think we're going to support backward thinking like this:

" 'She added: 'That's not what anyone is talking about — mostly because the president feels strongly, as I do, that dismantling private health coverage for the 180 million Americans that have it, discouraging more employers from coming into the marketplace, is really the bad, you know, is a bad direction to go.'

" 'Asked if the administration's program will be drafted specifically to prevent it from evolving into a single-payer plan, Sebelius says: 'I think that's very much the case, and again, if you want anybody to convince people of that, talk to the single-payer proponents who are furious that the single-payer idea is not part of the discussion.' "

"If Obama does, in fact, include language to prevent the public health plan from becoming a single-payer option, we might as well kiss this Democratic majority goodbye. Because, as history shows, given the choice between a fake Republican and a real one, people will pick the real one every time!"

And the second:

"This is what happens when you don't allow real competition into the picture. It's also what happens when you have a for-profit healthcare system:

" 'Executives of three of the nation's largest health insurers told federal lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday that they would continue canceling medical coverage for some sick policyholders, despite withering criticism from Republican and Democratic members of Congress who decried the practice as unfair and abusive.

'The hearing on the controversial action known as rescission, which has left thousands of Americans burdened with costly medical bills despite paying insurance premiums, began a day after President Obama outlined his proposals for revamping the nation's healthcare system.

'An investigation by the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations showed that health insurers WellPoint Inc., UnitedHealth Group and Assurant Inc. canceled the coverage of more than 20,000 people, allowing the companies to avoid paying more than $300 million in medical claims over a five-year period.

'It also found that policyholders with breast cancer, lymphoma and more than 1,000 other conditions were targeted for rescission and that employees were praised in performance reviews for terminating the policies of customers with expensive illnesses.' "

Madrak also includes the brief but scathing YouTube video on the truth about HMOs from Michael Moore's Sicko documentary.  It features the May, 1996 congressional testimony of Humana's medical director whose job was to save the for profit insurer money by denying those who were insured, life saving operations.  She admits to doing her job, which was use her medical expertise for the financial benefit of the insurer for which she worked very well, receiving advancement and six figure remuneration.

Such is the reality of what Obama, Sibelius etc. plan to countiue: protecting the powerful, gargantuan profit making health care insurance industry by making only cosmetic adjustments rather than protecting and promoting the common good and health care as a human right.

Instead of doing what must be done, they will only do the minimum that can be done.  The Obama administration's so called visionary promises seem to be evolving into repulsive, dangerous mediocrity.