More Words on Health

Now that the health care package has been upheld by the Supreme Court, the reactionaries got another reason to cuss out Obama. How dare he extend health care to 30+ millions of Americans who don't have it. LOL! 


-Savant


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I know it's nto a free lunch. Most of us progressives do not think the Affordable Care Act is anywhere near adequate. We need universal single payer health care. And America is BEHIND other industrial democracies. But the Affordable Care act is more than the USA had before. Yet the shrieking Furies of the Right are already crying about the onset of socialism. 


-Savant

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CarolinaSistah 14 hours ago in reply to Jamal Jenkums

If the law accomplishes the provision of healthcare coverage for all Americans, it's a good law.  It can't be a mistake for children and adults with terminal illnesses to receive coverage instead of being denied.  It can't be bad for those who have employment to be able to count on their employer to make healthcare coverage available to them at rates they can afford. More and more children are returning home to their parents as jobs become scarcer to find; therefore, it can't be bad for parent(s) to keep their young adult children on their insurance plans until they are age 29.  It has to be more cost effective for people to be able to afford primary healthcare instead of visiting emergency rooms where costs are expensive. 

I am pleased the ACA was passed by the Supreme Court.  Now let the U.S. get on with assuring its citizens are able to fiscally and responsibly take control of their own health by utilizing available healthcare coverage.

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Robert Gubbi

Just some questions and observations from an avid reader of this newsletter who happens to live in a country (The Netherlands) with mandatory and affordable health insurance for at least the last 100 years:

Who ends up paying for the health care for people who can't afford health insurance or are refused by insurance companies? Isn't that the taxpayer in the end anyhow?

Why do so many Americans think that health care as a private enterprise with more concern for the shareholders than for the sick and the elderly is to be preferred over a non-profit system that covers everybody for an affordable monthly premium?

Why does someone who worked and saved all his life have to go broke and lose his or het house just because they get sick when they get older? And why would someone in his right mind want to live in a country where that is common practise and can happen anytime to his fellow countrymen or, if he's one of the many millions of uninsured, to himself?

Why do Americans still fall for that 'we're protecting your individual freedom' song and dance coming from Washington every time Congress wants to stick it to them? Politicians are not protecting your freedom. They're protecting the insurance business just like they're protecting the pharmaceutical industry. The care for your health should not be in the hands of people looking out for number 1. Because number 1 ain't you. You ain't even number 2...

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I've READ Obama, and therefore know where he agreed and disagreed with rev. Wright. Futhremore, your implied analogy between Rev. Wright and Nazis like "pos", racists like Ohreally, is a patent absurdity. Rev. Wright was certainly guilty of INTEMPERANT LANGUABE, but nothing comparable to Nazism and racism. In fact, most of his accusations against the government in his notorious "God damn America" speech were/are ACTUALLY true. I think I can make a betteer case for most of what he said there than you or Sone can make a case for the racist clap trap spewed forth by pos. Go back and READ what she says in the King thread. Or notice her implied support for racists in numerous threads over time. She does not overtly express racist ideas. But she comes to the DEFENSE of racists. I've not seen her come to the defense of anti-racists-- a point which I once called her on. But she's not shy about opposing ideas that really offend her. At some point, silence does imply consent.

-Savant