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Not amused
Mar. 22nd, 2010 07:37 pmSo the three ring circus called Congress "passed" a so-called "reform" bill yesterday. I'm not impressed.
Mind, I'm no teabagger. I'm 100% in support of reform to the way health care is financed and managed in this country. The problem is, I just can't see this legislation as a reform of any sort. The controls are not stringent enough, the reforms are not large enough. It leaves health coverage in the hands of profit-making insurance carriers who bear a high degree of responsibility for the very problems this was supposed to address. Mark my words, they'll find a way to keep raking off large profits to the detriment of everyone who needs health care. With no public option to compete on price point, they will continue to set whatever prices they can get away with. After all, why not? Now the government will just have to pay the extra when the rates go up, since an individual's share of cost is fixed. This legislation is a sham, a joke, a crock of bull shit. We are still going to have to do it all over again, and this just puts that off by perhaps a few years, making it even harder and more expensive to fix the real problems.
Meanwhile, the right wingers who've been mouthing off continue to shriek about "death panels" and "socialism." Limbaugh swore he'd leave the country if it passed. Well, Rush, it passed. Now get out and shut up. I for one will NOT miss you. Sarah Palin, who has proven herself worthy of the title "shrill mouthed empty headed bitch" repeatedly since the elections two years ago, is still mouthing off. Believe me folks, there is NO promise in that woman. She stands for a return to the cold war, every woman (except herself of course) in her proper place as a Suzy Homemaker, and all thought sanitized of anything that might shake up her narrow-minded little world.
My own Congress-critter voted against the bill, of course, but for the wrong reasons. He's a Republican, that's the only reason he needed. He has contributed nothing constructive or useful to any discussion in all the years he has held office. All he does is vote the party line and refuse to listen to any constituent who disagrees with him.
I have seen nothing that says Congress will have to participate in this half-baked scheme. Oh no, they will keep their own luxurious health plans. Someone ought to challenge THAT in court, rather than trying to challenge the constitutionality of the reform package. Hint to those state governors: It's constitutional, just like Social Security and Medicare. You won't win.
Why Americans cling so desperately to their "freedom to be idiots" is really, truly hard for me to understand.
Mind, I'm no teabagger. I'm 100% in support of reform to the way health care is financed and managed in this country. The problem is, I just can't see this legislation as a reform of any sort. The controls are not stringent enough, the reforms are not large enough. It leaves health coverage in the hands of profit-making insurance carriers who bear a high degree of responsibility for the very problems this was supposed to address. Mark my words, they'll find a way to keep raking off large profits to the detriment of everyone who needs health care. With no public option to compete on price point, they will continue to set whatever prices they can get away with. After all, why not? Now the government will just have to pay the extra when the rates go up, since an individual's share of cost is fixed. This legislation is a sham, a joke, a crock of bull shit. We are still going to have to do it all over again, and this just puts that off by perhaps a few years, making it even harder and more expensive to fix the real problems.
Meanwhile, the right wingers who've been mouthing off continue to shriek about "death panels" and "socialism." Limbaugh swore he'd leave the country if it passed. Well, Rush, it passed. Now get out and shut up. I for one will NOT miss you. Sarah Palin, who has proven herself worthy of the title "shrill mouthed empty headed bitch" repeatedly since the elections two years ago, is still mouthing off. Believe me folks, there is NO promise in that woman. She stands for a return to the cold war, every woman (except herself of course) in her proper place as a Suzy Homemaker, and all thought sanitized of anything that might shake up her narrow-minded little world.
My own Congress-critter voted against the bill, of course, but for the wrong reasons. He's a Republican, that's the only reason he needed. He has contributed nothing constructive or useful to any discussion in all the years he has held office. All he does is vote the party line and refuse to listen to any constituent who disagrees with him.
I have seen nothing that says Congress will have to participate in this half-baked scheme. Oh no, they will keep their own luxurious health plans. Someone ought to challenge THAT in court, rather than trying to challenge the constitutionality of the reform package. Hint to those state governors: It's constitutional, just like Social Security and Medicare. You won't win.
Why Americans cling so desperately to their "freedom to be idiots" is really, truly hard for me to understand.
