Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Obamacare Turned Democrats into Insurance Industry Lapdogs

Just now the lament is regarding whatever Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, and any of the other misanthropes of the modern age will do with the Affordable Care Act.  The wailing and gnashing of teeth is likely to raise to even more of an ineffectual fever pitch as that regarding Betty DeVos who was quite possibly the worst and least-qualified candidate Trump could have selected for Education Secretary.

Cosell:  because she only knows about political patronage?

That's all any of the rich know of politics, Howie.  Trump couldn't have found a crew of such rich bitch losers any faster unless he simply pulled them straight off a golf course.


The Rockhouse contention is chucking the ACA won't do that much since it didn't do that much and it never even approached the ideal of health care for all.  Obama abandoned that before the project even got out of the gate.  Whoops, no public health option after all.

Ed:  easy for you to say when you have VA insurance!

VA isn't even close to insurance and it's where you go when you're already fucked.  For example, I told the Greek police I had VA and that passed as my insurance which is required for anyone in another country.  There was no real insurance since the nearest doctor who would see VA patients was in Athens, five hours away.  The lack of medical cover is the specific reason I ultimately left.

For some considerable time there was guilt about going to VA, taking something for nothing, etc, etc but that's not the situation.  The Army time did huge and permanent damage to my life.  Since no-one could see what it did, that made it less credible but ... after some time it became clear it really doesn't matter if it's credible to you since you probably don't have the same experience and therefore couldn't relate to it anyway.


Everything in the Affordable Care Act has gone toward cementing the Big Med / Big Pharma industries as the most easily-estimable health providers in the world; if you want to find excellence, you will need to go elsewhere.  The American system costs the most but yields only moderate success so, of course, institutionalize that for the good of us all.

Ed:  does this really go back to Bernie Sanders and a 'one-payer system?'

Of course it does but there's no need to reiterate it since you already know it and repeating things to neoliberals has no effect anyway.  They won't remember in any case.

Ed:  due to the Groundhog Day effect of social networks?

Most likely.


Sorry, mates.  I don't have any particular controversy to offer regarding Trump and Obamacare.  You have known all along it was impossible to destroy the ACA so they went back to their standard GOP practice of chiseling at it as if that means something.

Ed:  it makes them feel like they have jobs!

All in all, the people prefer it more when the politicians make us feel like they have jobs and few of us believe that now.

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