My friend with the bleeding feet needs universal health care; she stands twelve hours a day running a small store, but she can’t get care because she can’t afford insurance, and anyhow, she has a pre-existing condition, so she’s locked out of the marketplace.
She needs universal health care; it’s not a matter of life and death yet; but it’s going to be. And as with her, so with a lot of people I know. A lot of us are “going naked,” and one reason we had some confidence that we could risk that was that this year, the Democrats were going to get in, and would finally pass the kind of universal program that every other industrialized nation on the face of this earth has. That is, we had confidence until Barry dogwhistled he’d Fuck us over, and started demagoging the issue with Harry & Louise ads (which he’s still doing. Talk about shameless!)
Anyhow, the Big Dog sets Barry straight on why Barry’s so-called universal plan won’t work. It doesn’t cover everybody:*
“Hillary’s being subject to a television ad that has been roundly criticized in the form of mass mailings all across this country saying she’s trying to make you buy insurance you can’t afford and you’re gonna be fined and all that. It isn’t true. It is not true,” he said. “Every expert who has looked at this says if you provide the subsidies and you cap somebody’s income, everybody’ll be able to afford it, it’ll be cheaper than anything you’re buying now if you buying it. But I’m just telling you, we won’t get control of cost unless we cover everybody. Doing the morally right thing is the economically essential thing. If you agree with that, if you agree with that, you have only one choice left with the three candidates for president. You got to vote for Hillary for president, she’ll fix this problem.”
Later, in Beaver Falls the former president had one word to describe the arguments being leveled against Sen. Clinton’s healthcare plan –- “bull.”
“And, you know, you may hear some more about it before Tuesday. ’Oh, it’s the end of the world. Oh, you’re gonna be forced to buy health care you can’t afford.’ That’s bull. The only way you can afford it over the long run is that everyone is covered. Every other country knows this,” Clinton told the crowd.
Universal Health Care is important to a lot of people. It’s especially important to the working people Barry dissed with his infamous “cling to” remark. So you’d think Barry might want to throw the people who could lose their jobs and even their homes to a single illness a lifeline, by fixing his broken health care plan.
For a candidate that says he wants change, Obama’s sure hazy on the kind of change he wants, isn’t he? And one kind of change people do want, he’s not offering.
Hey, but he can make like Jay-Z at a rally! That’ll sure help my friend out when she finally blacks out and has to go to the E.R. Go die!
NOTE * Naturally, it wouldn’t cover everybody. Barry’s all about the youthful base, and they don’t think they need it. Remind you of anyone?
NOTE Via TalkLeft.
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I'm gonna say this, and of course I can be called racist...
… but you’d think a candidate depending on the black vote would remember that a buttload of grief is coming down the pike for blacks and hispanics suffering from diabetes, the disease that keeps on giving through kidney failure, heart disease, stroke, amputations and neuropathy. Getting universal healthcare in place is the only way we’ll get those negative outcomes under control, through affordable preventative medicine.
You’d think a man who really wants change for America would put in place a fair program that can work as well as Social Security, to help that change happen….
We need KISS healthcare
If you need healthcare, you go see a doctor.
The doctor gives you the care you need (based upon the doctor’s professional judgment.)
No checking your plan coverage, no getting approval from some non-doctor bureaucrat, and no insurance companies concerned with profits.
You get quality care, and the doctor gets ample compensation and government sponsored malpractice insurance.
Then I woke up
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“Real ponies don’t oink” - Patrick McManus
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You need to move to France for that! ;-)
he's an independence party parasite.
he needs to go. now.
Hey Lambert
I’ve gathered from previous comments that you aren’t part of what you call the “youthful base”. If Universal Health Care is so important, why didn’t you and your generation get around to it before? You’ve (collectively) had a lot more time to address it than the “youthful base”. The sense of entitlement you exhibit is spectacular. Those issues you care about (and your preferred solutions) are transformed into moral imperatives by which everyone else is judged. God help the person who doesn’t share your opinion.
By the way, have you decided whether you lied or were just ignorant when you falsely implied that Obama was going to privatize Social Security? Hack.
Read Paul Krugman, dmd76 -- Obama's approach will
fall right in line with the Beltway Villagers’ long-cherished desire to “put a spear through the soft underbelly of entitlements”. It’s what neophytes who want to be seen as Serious People (tm Atrios) do. Right-wing AEI castigates him for backing off a “sensible” proposal to his new plan — raising the tax cap to include incomes above $97,000.
DMD, There wasn't political will
for UHC. Now there is. And I love the thought that since previous generations of politicians have failed to accomplish something, it shouldn’t be accomplished now. I suppose that answers the question on whether Obama is really a progressive.
“It hasn’t been done before, you have only yourselves to blame, so you won’t get it now.” I mean there had never been a Civil Rights act, so there wasn’t any point in passing one. If the damn blacks wanted had wanted equal rights, why hadn’t they gotten it before. As a matter of fact, let’s apply that standard all the way back to the start of our country. If you all had really wanted Independence, you would have asked for it 1600, or 1700, so now, why ask for it 1776. You big silly.
And, Obama’s advisors want to privatize social security. Deal.
Bill Clinton for First Dude!!!
Exactly so, Dr. Krugman
But Mr. Obama’s Social Security mistake was, in fact, exactly what you’d expect from a candidate who promises to transcend partisanship in an age when that’s neither possible nor desirable.
Yes, this is exactly it.
Those of us who didn’t just fall off the turnip truck understand that what the Republicans want and what liberals of all stripes want are not compatible. And now that the Republicans’ grip on power is slipping, all of a sudden, they want us to lighten up on our demands. No, sorry, “bipartisanship is date rape.”
But the “everyone” who knows that Social Security is doomed doesn’t include anyone who actually understands the numbers.
Remember what happend last time we didn’t listen to Dr. Krugman when he told us a candidate’s economic numbers didn’t add up?
How has conventional wisdom gotten this so wrong? Well, in large part it’s the result of decades of scare-mongering about Social Security’s future from conservative ideologues, whose ultimate goal is to undermine the program.
Shorter, in the immortal words of Ash: “It’s a trick. Get an axe.”
Hillary's Response Ad on Healthcare