Republicans and their supporters, both the intelligence, logic challenged and the bamboozled, want to maintain the shame and disaster, anti-common good, enormous profits for the health industry that is health care coverage in the US in order to retain the Bushite policy of government of, by, and for the wealthy few and corporations.

There are voices rebutting and fighting this tyranny of the minority, but they must be joined by an active majority, not the current passive majority that seems content to allow the half-truths and lies of an addled minority to defeat the demands of the 63% plus for universal, government administered, affordable health care.

Some of those voices were heard at the AFL-CIO convention in Pittsburgh:  "In a historic vote that adds the nation’s leading voice of American workers to a broad national campaign, the AFL-CIO voted unanimously at its national convention here today to endorse the enactment of single-payer, universal healthcare for all Americans.

"The resolution was sponsored by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, and the Alameda County (California) Central Labor Council.  

"In urging its support, CNA/NNOC Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro, an AFL-CIO National Vice-President, noted the recent death of Crystal Lee Sutton, the real-life union organizer from the film Norma Rae who died last week after a long battle with cancer, exacerbated by her own three-year fight with her insurance company.

“ 'No one should spend the last days of their life fighting with their insurance company,' said DeMoro. 'We should not make choices of who gets healthcare based on their ethnicity, gender, or economic status. But I am addressing the labor movement, not Wall Street. And we all know what is the right thing – the moral thing – single-payer healthcare.'

"The resolution notes that “the experience of Medicare (and of nearly every other industrialized country) shows the most cost-effective and equitable way to provide quality healthcare is through a single-payer system. Our nation should provide a single high standard of comprehensive care for all.” It also sites specific single-payer bills, including HR 676, which has 86 cosponsors in Congress."

And speaking in a video to members of the Alliance for Retired Americans: 

"Harkening back to the administrations of Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and her father, [daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, Linda Johnson] Robb noted that they would want to make the most of the opportunity to add to the historic achievements of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security:

'They would say that ensuring all Americans have guaranteed, affordable health care is the missing piece of the modern American social contract, the unfinished business of their legacies.

'This is also the unfinished business of our generation. I urge America’s seniors, and all Americans, to finish this project by working for affordable health care for all.'

"People across the country, particularly seniors, are being targeted by powerful interests who are using scare tactics and disinformation in an attempt to stop health care reform, Robb said. But just as those interests didn’t prevent President Johnson from signing Medicare and protecting the health of older Americans, they must not be allowed to block health reform that finally provides health care for all, Robb said."