Sean Fenley

Sean Fenley
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Sean Fenley is an independent progressive, who would like to see some sanity brought to the creation and implementation of current and future, US military, economic, foreign and domestic policies. He has been published by a number of websites, and publications throughout the alternative media.

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Salon.com
MARCH 29, 2012 10:14PM

Let’s Hope That the Supremes Toss Obamacare

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Tossing Obamacare, in my opinion, would be the best of all worlds. The fervor of hope and changia blinded so many to the onerous piece of legislation that Obama — and other Wall Street Democrats — were crafting for Cigna, Kaiser, Aetna (and the rest of the vainglorious HMOs). With his commanding officer Rahmbo wrastling up all of the votes, hope and changia, achieved its mission of a belated Christmas present for the vampiric, the treacherous, and the blood-sucking HMO dirt and the scum.

No, America could not become a regular country — like all of the others in the industrialized world — it had to be one where thousands die yearly, because of lack of access to adequate health coverage. In the name of “working within the [broken] employer based system”, Obamacare was the “solution” that “had” to be made. And under the alleged solution — because Obamacare is not universal, thousands will continue to die each year.

So now it turns out that a petrified, reactionary, myopic, and neo-fascist legion of “esteemed” and “illustrious” Supreme Court “justices”, might be the best hope for America/Americans. In order to reopen the debate on why America — cannot have socialized medicine like Great Britain — or a single-payer system as Canada has. And join the rest of the industrialized word, in giving this modicum of human dignity, to all of its citizens!

So fascist Scalia, Alito, Roberts and Thomas onward! Onward and upward I say! Thwart our purveyor of the HMOs (Obama), and a backwards “health” care system — and do it with glee! And reopen this debate on why a nation — that spends more on the military than the rest of the world’s nations combined — cannot make it a birthright of every American, to have the proviso of a requisite level of (lifetime) health coverage. From a twinkle in one’s parents’ eyes, until the very last of each of our days!

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I'd agree but for other reasons... single payer means tested expansion of Medicare with appropriate taxation (read revenue increases) makes sense. It's more efficient and less expensive than anything the HMO's or insurance companies can offer... the proviso has to be a cap on benefits that takes into account age and condition... neither Dick Chaney nor I should qualify for a heart transplant, we're both too damn old... unfortunately the child with a chronic genetic condition would also be a likely reject for a heart/lung transplant as well. The decisions would be hard to make but with the Boomers flooding the system, the average $200,000 expenditure for the last six months of life from Medicare and Medicaid cannot be sustained.
yeah, this bad legislation has created quite a dilemma. It seems to me that if the justices are also corporate shills, they won't strike it down. If they strike it down, the small percentage of people it helps will lose out; if they don't, I can't help but feel that all of us lose out.
I'm with you, Sean. In my view, it's totally unconstitutional to require Americans to purchase a product (health insurance) from a corporation. More than 60% of Americans and even more American doctors favor a publicly financed health care system like they have in other industrialized countries. Yet Obama took this off the table from the gitgo - and had doctors who tried to speak about single payer at the hearings arrested.
Beautifully expressed and oh-so-true, Sean. This payoff of 30+ million new policies to the insurance companies, proffered through intimidation, or paid for by others (through subsidies) and yet another layer of bureaucracy, is quite insane.
R
Oh, and then again, there's this alternative hovering on the horizon... (Connect the segments)
digg.com/ newsbar/story/romney_uninsured_
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[r] I think you may be right Sean. If we don't say NO THAT IS NOT GOOD ENUF we are never gonna get better, and the perfect being enemy of the good doesn't work here because so many people are not covered or will be inadequately covered. The good isn't good enuf!

Obama's trust me with the details and the essence and to take care of everyone has never proved reliable, not by a long shot. Promises to vaguely take care of the nation without ever going into any details since he doesn't care about details and part of the details are protecting and honoring the sanctity of human life which has been massively shoved aside, along with any sense of responsibility to take care of ALL of the citizenry as a national family not just the "middle class" he pretends to care about but really the 1% he is enthralled to.

60% of America wanted universal health care and then the Tea Party conveniently exploded against socialism and big government when government had been CAPTURED by the private corporatists and that was the wrecking ball. It wasn't big government that was the problem it was corrupt government. Profoundly corrupt government. And the prob was also fascism NOT socialism.

I feel so disenfranchised watching the MSNBC crowd try to make the kabuki Dem vs. Republican palatable for people who are fighting massive and justifiable cognitive dissonance blaring in their brains. Both legacy parties have betrayed

best, libby.
The true enemy of reasonable healthcare in America is the extreme left...not the right. The extreme left is unwilling to give the seed a chance to set and grow. What they want is a whole plant to appear magically.

Obamacare is a seed...and like many of the seeds FDR planted, could grow into a decent plant with time and culturing.

But I do agree with you that this is probably a win/win situation for a reasonable healthcare plan. We need single payer...although I would prefer socialized medicine alongside a "private enterprise" system.
THANK YOU GOD FOR MAKING ME A CANADIAN
Alas, I can't share your sentiment. Nobody on either side likes this plan, that's usually a sign of the best godawful conpromise available.

It took a hundred years after REPUBLICAN Teddy Roosevelt first proposed a form of nationalized healthcare to get this atrocity, which by the way is largely what the REPUBLICANS proposed in reaction (and everything they do is reactionary save for tax reductions for rich folks) to proposals under HilaryCare.

That REPUBLICANS are rejecting their own damned plan tells me there is NO chance of having real healthcare reform -- a Canadian Plan or Universal Medicare -- for the foreseeable future. God help us, the REPUBLICANS won't.
Tom,
Republicans have always hated Medicare and Social Security, two of the most successful policies in the history of America (I'd have to go back and look at the history I believe that few Republican votes supported either one). Obama truly could have been a historic president, if he made a national single-payer plan the third.

Great op-ed by Kucinich before he was wrangled -- on Air Force one -- into voting for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act:
http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/03/latest_health_care_reform_bill.html