It is often said that the reason for the high level of health care in America is because we have a free market and competition increases competence.
This may be a pie in the sky approach and I am sure many would characterize it as Pollyannaish, but what about simple compassion. The curing of diseases should not be a casualty of your bank account size or subject to the whim of a neighborhood fund raising bake sale. Obamacare is the first salvo in the war for kindness. In every state, city and town in America, some parent, spouse or friend is shedding a tear today because someone they love is going to die because they can’t afford to live.
We have the power in this country, to not save everyone but to save those within the reach of our compassion. The Republican Party gleefully proclaims, once they are in the White House they will repeal the Affordable Care Act. The people most opposed to the law don’t even understand what it is. Obamacare is not a program you can walk in and buy, it is not a program that allows you to present a government sanctioned card for services. The Affordable Care Act is a law, a simple set of regulations to standardize coverage and make it affordable for the many Americans who use the emergency room as their doctor’s office. The arguments over cost, when we build billion-dollar state funded sports stadiums is obscene.
The real villains are insurance carriers, their focus is profit and profit is the sworn enemy of compassion. The increase of eligible customers for insurance providers has increased by approximately 17 million people, the problem is, some of these people are sick. So predictably some insurance carriers are threatening to withdraw their participation, if too many sick people look for cures. In the states that need help most, we pay state funded college football coaches more than some of their state Governors. Rutgers University in New Jersey recently launched a one-hundred-million-dollar fundraiser to build a new stadium, with the blessing of Governor Chris Christie. Meanwhile, the governor is backing Donald Trump, who wants to remove millions of people from the healthcare roles. Christie has resisted funding for Medicaid expansion in his own state. The most galling aspect of the controversy is that it is mainly political. The bottom line is that Republicans are outraged that a Black Democratic Liberal President has made historic inroads. Let’s face facts, we have made excuses centered around, ideology, conservative values and methods but I submit it comes down to a much simpler equation, racial animosity. When the positives of the Affordable Care Act are polled it has a favorability rating of 40 to 50 percent depending on the region of the country. When it is polled as Obamacare the rating drops almost in half (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/... ). My head is not in the sand, that change has nothing to do with policy it has everything to do with bigotry.
I am not sure why even some Liberals dance around the fact that a large group of Americans practice racism. So the conservative plan is to take us back to tax draining emergency rooms, reduced productivity for workers and mother’s decorating sugary treats and cakes to save their loved ones.
Vote 2016