So we sit and watch a breakdown of will, of political suicide, of failure in the face of “health care reform”. Once again the Republicans have thrown themselves on their swords for ideological purity
Really? Really over health care reform?
17% of the American people, who were able to pay attention, supported the Republican repeal and replace plan of Obama Care.
It is the Affordable Care Act by the way.
And it is a hodgepodge of half laws that desperately needs reform and tweaking.
Every other law of this magnitude has been tweaked and adjusted.
And now, we hear, from the President, the irresponsible “we will have to wait until it implodes, and it WILL implode”...
What irresponsibility! What smug irresponsibility.
If the law implodes, or if the hit piece the Republicans attempted to shove down our throats passes, millions will lose and thousands will die. But the bill was pulled and the Republicans now wait for the law to fail....
And most of them will be people who voted for Trump! And many Republicans depend on Obama Care for their health care!
Look, a single payer plan that put pressure on insurance companies to compete is essential AND a mandatory tax or premium is necessary as well…I would prefer a tax just like Medicare.
We need to copy Sweden or Australia or Canada or Germany.
We need to compromise but realize that using private insurance to run health care is unmanageable and impossible.
It just is. And the loser will be the insurance companies. But a hybrid where single payer covers the basics with supplemental insurance if you want more coverage is what
Australia does; as do many other countries.
The answer to this mess is right there in front of us…we have several templates from which to choose.
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel. We don’t need to make health care reform a life or death matter; believe it not Canada even has a socialized system and still has a free political system and a robust capitalist economy.
It is just that health care is NOT compatible with the free market mind set because health care is in the PUBLIC interest.
How so? Well just bring up infectious diseases for a second. Polio eradication was in the public interest. Measles eradication was in the public interest. We all accept cholorinated water that ended death by dysentary with no loss of freedom.
We all allow the government to lace our drinking water with chemicals that we pay for through taxes that is the single most important advancement in public health history, leading to a dramatic increase in lifetime expectancy.
And none of us, save the real wackos say a peep about this…not a peep.
Yet we are losing our freedom to drink non processed water. We have given up our right to basically shit ourselves to death.
Think I am exaggerating. Go ahead. LOOK IT UP.
Immunizations and chlorinated water are the single largest advancement in public health in history resulting in billions of lives being saved, and it was socialized as hell, single payer and government led.
Go ahead, find me a privatized water treatment plant….
Health Care is NOT the hill to die on. But we just saw a political party nail itself because they can’t get off of the losing proposition that public health is in the public interest.
And to finally accept that will NOT turn you into a raging liberal
HOW DO I KNOW THAT? BECAUSE EVERYONE OF YOU WHO TURNS 65 GOES THROUGH THIS METAMORPHOSIS THAT SUDDENLY ACCEPTS A SINGLE PAYER SYSTEM WITH SUPPLEMENT IF YOU WISH AND FINALLY RELAXES YOU ABOUT HEALTH CARE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YOUR LIFE.
HEALTH CARE IS A PUBLIC RIGHT!
