Brilliant frightening eye opener Glenn. I disagree STRONGLY Glenn though about
withdrawing progressive's support of the Democrats. Divided we fall caused
Nixon's Vietnam and mass destructions, and a host of other ills.
On Apr 3, 2012, at 3:21 PM, Glenn wrote:
Here is a snapshot of the reality about the medicaid system. The PA medicaid example is
being replicated in most states just like the "John Wayne" gun law that helped
kill Trayvon. The corporations are not attacking the people of a few states only, but
sweep across the state capitols simultaneously.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20120403_Uncovering_kids__89_000_poor_Pa__kids_slashed_from_Medicaid.html?page=2&c=y
Health care reform advocates have long known that medicaid, and the health care safety
net for the poor, was in the midst of the death rattle long before the
"success" of expanding medicaid in the PPACA. That overtaxed broken net is now
going to be totally destroyed, so that nearly a half trillion dollars can be sent to the
health insurance corporations. This was called a victory for health care reform.
Most of the middle class quietly knows that their individual health insurance plans are getting
much worse every year, as is their access to primary care! Yet, they are being manipulated by the
corporate Republicans/Democrats toward the hate and anger of "charity" for the poor,
minorities, and immigrants . They believe this new lie about welfare queens getting access to the
"best health care" while they know they can't see a doctor or get a colon cancer
screening which could save their lives! Why wouldn't the middle class be furious, when they believe
the welfare queen lie? This is exactly how fascism progresses in a society just prior to the
totalitarian shift.
and / or the frightening potential for equally totalitarian and substantively
ineffective jingoist alternatives..
To really understand the 2000+ page corporate written health care act, people need to study other
corporate crimes and see how they control the regulations, the regulators, and quietly deconstruct
any rules and regulations which would protect the people. Before the corporations had their
Democrat and Republican deceivers pass the PPACA, they already had a divide and conquer strategy to
nullify every single "reform" by quietly taking on a few pages at a time! (I reported my
personal example with the new Blue Cross practice of ending "product lines." I think
this will prove to be an example of side stepping rules about pre-existing conditions. Some rules
are rewritten quietly and others are simply circumvented.)
true that, long time happening too
Whether its banking regulations, environmental regulations or health care
protections the eviscerated regulatory agencies are no match for the
corporations! To believe otherwise is magical thinking. The more complexity
simply makes the corporate attacks easier to hide and allows them to spread the
divide and conquer strategies more broadly.
But we still have no way to compare the Democratic solutions at least unless
and until Obama can work with a progressive Congress.
Instead of demanding a medicare for all system, the democrats want their
followers to believe their mantra that the health insurance bailout will get
better.
it has gotten somewhat better already perhaps(?)since the ideas were fostered
to the public I think; but as your article points out not given with assurance
and it could become here Republican Hell (or even Democrat).
But it doesn't matter what is on those pages because all of it will be
nullified within a few years. The corporations are making their politicians
and judges dance around health care theatrics so they can inflame anger and
hatred while the American people are completely distracted and misinformed
about health care policies and systems like medicaid. (I know the democrats
want thinking people like me to shut up because the republicans are so crazy.
But I can't look at the obvious nonsense and lies, and continue buying into the
demand for progressives loyalty to the democrat party.)
They gave us sandwiches for free. Their intentions seem good. You might not
need to 'buy' in... No charge for you...! I kid Glenn but am sympathetic and
agree with what you say... still it is a better plan that the socially minded
people have put forward and if unobstructed by vain and greedy resistance of
the opposition would have been the way you had wanted it. I find the
politicians responding to public demands much more responsively and
representatively and building a better republic by that more generally in the
Democratic areas.
We have actors in a bipartisan ruling system, and not governmental leaders.
Their choreographers do their work on K St., Wall St., and dark rooms at ivy
league universities.
AMEN!
Here is the way a new health care law needs to read. HEALTH CARE IS A HUMAN
RIGHT. MEDICARE WILL BE EXTENDED TO ALL CITIZENS AT BIRTH.
SALUTE...
Glenn
PS Here is some left wing propaganda:
...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that
among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure
these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes
destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish
it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles
and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to
effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
governments long established should not be changed for light and transient
causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more
disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of
abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to
reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to
throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future
security...
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