("24 Million Fewer Could Receive Health Coverage")
The unaffordable care act.
It is larceny in broad daylight, stealing from the poor to satiate the rich, stripping Medicaid, making coverage unattainable for those most in danger, treating misery as a pre-existing condition, holding the only self evident truth, the only mandate, is insuring that insurance is once more a privilege and not a right.
The unaffordable care act.
It is larceny in broad daylight, stealing from the poor to satiate the rich, stripping Medicaid, making coverage unattainable for those most in danger, treating misery as a pre-existing condition, holding the only self evident truth, the only mandate, is insuring that insurance is once more a privilege and not a right.
For the vast
portion of the population who stand to lose the most, many of whom
sought comfort in the arms of the Republican party, it is far past time
to end the delusion that this President and those in control in this
Congress are in your corner.
The President will rely
on his standard bag of tricks, crying foul that the figures from the CBO
are without basis, that this agency, like his intelligence agencies,
are filled with incompetents, that numbers lie (except when they support
him), that everyone in the fictional land of Trump will live happily
ever after.
Except we know better (or worse). We know
that millions will suffer unnecessarily if this plan become reality,
that we will have taken yet another giant step backward in our journey
to reach the moral high ground, that we will be complicit in a crime of
staggering magnitude.
There would be some who might
think, for selfish political purposes, that the Democrats should put up a
fight but then step aside to allow the Republicans to orchestrate their
own political demise. But that cannot be adequate response. The only
acceptable reply is to stand resolute and unbending, to push as hard and
as long as possible, to give those who require our aid the most,
assurance if not insurance they will not be abandoned in their hour of
desperate need.
3 comments:
Maybe we call too much about these sad, sad white people from the Brexit states of WI, MI, OH, IA, PA and WV. They have no jobs, no healthcare and half of them are addicted to opiates. Their answer is to build a wall between Mexico and the US. So should we go out of our way for them ?
Absolutely yes. They're Americans whose overall welfare has gone unaddressed by past administrations. Out of desperation, they saw hope in the blatant promises of our current leader. Now they face the hard truths. Not their fault, they were driven to anything that looked like an answer to their prayers. Do we fault them for that and expand the division between us or understand what they're dealing with and start the healing. We have to survive this tragedy that's befallen us and get this country, all of this country, back on track.
Right on the mark. This is a great piece. So well written, as always.
H
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