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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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.
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.
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.
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