Mac1958
Diamond Member
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The moment an issue becomes political, it becomes a bad joke.
The lefties are ideologically obligated to defend and spin for Obamacare because it essentially has a (D) after it, even though it's a massive handout to Those Evil Insurance Companies. One can only imagine how much that galls them, but they have to be good soldiers. They have also convinced themselves that, since our existing system has problems, ANY new system will be better. Breathtakingly simplistic.
On the other end, we have the righties, who are ideologically obligated to just say "no" to anything the Democrats suggest, for fear of being primaried, even if there are good parts to the idea (or even more amusing, ideas that they used to support, holy shit). Some of them claim they have offered alternatives, even though you NEVER see them offering a specific plan in the zillions of teevee interviews they do; the rest of them have somehow convinced themselves that offering NO alternative is the better approach. So how's that working out for you? For sick people? For the country?
Here's one issue I absolutely NEVER see addressed: In the "plans" (cough) from EITHER screwed up party, NO ONE is pointing out the fact that we have six, count 'em, SIX different elements in play when delivering health care to different Americans:
1. Group health insurance
2. Individual health insurance
3. Medicare
4. Medicaid
5. VA
6. Indigent care
This is fucking STUPID. Obamacare does nothing to address this absurdity; the GOP, uh, "plans" do nothing to address this absurdity. The Democrats are too busy worrying about income redistribution and buying votes, the Republicans are too worried about appearing to be reasonable and dealing with the subsequent and inevitable primary attack from their right.
Defend your "side" all you want - both parties are causing great damage to our health care system by putting politics on top of the priority list, as usual.
A pox on both houses.
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The moment an issue becomes political, it becomes a bad joke.
The lefties are ideologically obligated to defend and spin for Obamacare because it essentially has a (D) after it, even though it's a massive handout to Those Evil Insurance Companies. One can only imagine how much that galls them, but they have to be good soldiers. They have also convinced themselves that, since our existing system has problems, ANY new system will be better. Breathtakingly simplistic.
On the other end, we have the righties, who are ideologically obligated to just say "no" to anything the Democrats suggest, for fear of being primaried, even if there are good parts to the idea (or even more amusing, ideas that they used to support, holy shit). Some of them claim they have offered alternatives, even though you NEVER see them offering a specific plan in the zillions of teevee interviews they do; the rest of them have somehow convinced themselves that offering NO alternative is the better approach. So how's that working out for you? For sick people? For the country?
Here's one issue I absolutely NEVER see addressed: In the "plans" (cough) from EITHER screwed up party, NO ONE is pointing out the fact that we have six, count 'em, SIX different elements in play when delivering health care to different Americans:
1. Group health insurance
2. Individual health insurance
3. Medicare
4. Medicaid
5. VA
6. Indigent care
This is fucking STUPID. Obamacare does nothing to address this absurdity; the GOP, uh, "plans" do nothing to address this absurdity. The Democrats are too busy worrying about income redistribution and buying votes, the Republicans are too worried about appearing to be reasonable and dealing with the subsequent and inevitable primary attack from their right.
Defend your "side" all you want - both parties are causing great damage to our health care system by putting politics on top of the priority list, as usual.
A pox on both houses.
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