Consider - the Right-wing's many "scandals" have come to absolutely nothing, Syria was cornered without a war, and Ted Cruz's Tea Party faction was outmaneuvered - but here's the (politically pathetic) conventional wisdom after a mere website screw-up:
Or - just as "surely" - somebody's still seeing what they want to see, imagines they see, or are told to see.
Which is how we got Obama (including the real man) in the first place,...
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People losing insurance is the only problem I see Obama with, right now, and only because lives are at stake.
It's shocking, to me, what lies y'all decide are important. Very selective. "If you like your plan you can keep it" is worthy of outrage, while "water is medicine" is over 200 years old but long received either a shrug of the shoulders, prominent placement at Whole Foods, celebrity endorsements and/or some viciously aggressive evangelizing that "you can believe what you want to believe."
Which is how we got Obama (including the real man) in the first place,...
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People losing insurance is the only problem I see Obama with, right now, and only because lives are at stake.
It's shocking, to me, what lies y'all decide are important. Very selective. "If you like your plan you can keep it" is worthy of outrage, while "water is medicine" is over 200 years old but long received either a shrug of the shoulders, prominent placement at Whole Foods, celebrity endorsements and/or some viciously aggressive evangelizing that "you can believe what you want to believe."
Obama's critics' long-standing hypocrisy, in this regard and others, serves only to highlight their own opportunistic nature and/or slavery to the ambitions of those behind today's almost-substance-free 24 hour news cycle.
They're a sad replacement for actual wisdom - and work,...
My four issues with Obamacare are this:
ReplyDelete1)the problems with losing insurance policies is a problem (this includes cost and availability to health care)
2)uh yeah, I don't think alternative "medicine" should be covered -- if something is found to actually work, ok, but not until then (perhaps some leeway for experimental treatments can be factored in, but this would include actual traditional medicine, and anything found to not work...outta there) -- I do have big issues with this
3)the security of medical files should be tight
4)something needs to be enacted so the system can't be radically changed down the road to suit whoever is in power's whims -- this would safeguard, or better safeguard, people from winding up with a European style, single payer system (Hillarycare) or some freakish laissez faire "free market" free for all -- in short, make future provisions to safeguard access to quality healthcare for the lower income brackets (and wouldn't hurt the middle income brackets either).
And yes, sensible methods of cutting costs would be nice -- but they should not come from locking people out of receiving healthcare (this has always been a problem; it should have been addressed a long time ago; there were things that could have been done and there were compromises that were going to have to happen -- that they weren't is pretty much everybody's fault, including yours truly; very well, let's all just admit it and work on the problems).
If those get fixed, I could live with it -- certainly a lot better than a British style NHS system (which is what will get foisted upon us all if everybody isn't careful).
In short, I think obsessing over Obama is causing people to be very short sighted, and this could be a big detriment.
The irony that I never was an Obama supporter and now find myself kinda, sorta supporting him against his detractors within his own base isn't going unnoticed -- feels kinda weird to be perfectly blunt. Oh well.
PW
I would also like to point out:
ReplyDeleteWe are not in a single payer/European style system...yet.
And the disaster that has been to the poor of Europe is sadly overlooked by many (and whatever one may think of the poor, they do not deserve to be treated like animals, they mouths pried open and their muscles checked to see if it's worth taking care of them, and to the knackers if they aren't deemed valuable; nor do they deserve to self treat themselves with souped up water because real medicine isn't available to them) -- imhao, they have blood on their hands, and I would like to avoid us having the same. (and God or whatever help us if we wind up with something even more draconian than the European system!)
Whether wittingly or unwittingly, this Obamacare has left the door open at least a small crack, whereby we can avoid it -- if we are wise. But we won't avoid it if we don't start pulling our heads out of our collective asses and seize the opportunity to do something effective rather than sitting around bitching!
In the end, we'll have no one but ourselves to blame or congratulate, either way.
PW