Let me get this straight. A government mandate that you have to have health insurance or you will be fined something like $1200?
1) We provide 30 million more customers to the rapacious profiteering. Compulsory monthly payments for similar bad coverage (to afford it, you have to have outrageously high deductibles).
2) The Wellpoints and Blue Shield’s get, guaranteed by congressional order, a fixed number of customers. They can carry on business as usual, and only have to allow a few pre-existing conditions and possibly be forced to eliminate the lifetime caps.
3) The pharma deal struck by the White House forced congress to not approve importation cheaper identical drugs from Canada. So, they get to participate in this additional 10% of the US population into the prescription drug market.
4) The older you are, the more you will pay. So, don’t get old. Die early. That way there is no drag on the profit of the drug and insurance companies.
Sounds like a great compromise plan, eh? Supurb for the 17% of Americans that are un or under employed. (Actually, the figure, if you include those that aren’t looking, or are uncounted, maybe close to one in five.)
Try telling the 35 million people that have “food issues” (monthly struggles with their budget over providing food for their family) that they now have to buy health insurance. Hey, while the lined pockets on K Street are at Ruth’s Chris hammering it out, why not mandate everyone have a balanced three meals a day. Heck, let’s mandate every family in America to buy a new car every 5 years! See, that’ll fix it, and everyone will be happy.
This is just fucking stupid. As Matt Taibbi and Robert Kuttner pointed out, this is an albatross that the Democrats will have to live with for a generation. And the Republicans will just snicker when the votes dry up for the party of yes. Yes, we can force people to buy shit they can’t afford. Yes, we can pretend it is reform. Yes, we can tell people it is good for them and they did us a solid.
No. More of the same crap. The rich get richer, and the only thing that is reformed is the balance sheet. Add more pages! Promise of profit long term is a great deal to cut to allow asthmatic Janice or crippled Timmy to pay you for an $180 inhaler (only $150 with insurance!!!), or $210 crutches ($20 at Salvation Army or let the doctor “prescribe” them for you).
God Bless us everyone. Enjoy your change!
This following video has a lot of fucks in it. This guy is angry (He forgot his Paroxetine -um, $169):
OK, well, nevermind. But, do you think this mascot below will get a mandatory policy? -
UPDATE: Someone tell me why the republicans are against this senate bill. It lines pockets on both sides, those that vote for it. It is billions more for big insure and big pharma, so wouldn’t all of the whores want a piece / kickback? How does it hurt the GOP to let this go through?
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