Politicians have always been known as a culture that does incredibly dishonest and deceitful things in the name of acquiring power and most of us have always, pretty much, understood that. We don’t approve of it but we do understand that an individual who craves power and money above all else will not be put off by anything as abstract as moral principals.
That’s why, I have, from the beginning, been surprised by the Right’s all out attack on Obamacare. It can’t be that they don’t approve of people getting healthcare. I mean, what kind of degenerate doesn’t want sick people to get help? It can’t be financial because that early excuse of the cost being too high for the economy to sustain, has long ago been proved false. Even the most fanatic opponents can no longer counter the facts which indicate that the implementation of the ACA will, in he long run, save billions while providing better care for all citizens.
Many have been willing to accept the excuse that the Republican’s were just mad about losing the fight over it to the President and were being sore losers, but how long can a group of, supposed, grown-ups sulk?
If the opposition had come from a group with a better plan, that would be understandable, but this plan is based on one instituted by former, unsuccessful, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and none of his party mates have come up with anything batter or even remotely as good. Sure it’s too long and sure it doesn’t cover all the bases and yes there should be some changes but if the Right stopped trying to dump it and started trying to improve it, we would all be a whole hell of a lot better off.
Not content with being minor pains in the butt, and just causing trouble for the plan, House Republicans are actively interfering with its implementation. They have in the past, held up funding for the local exchanges that were responsible for registering the potential insured. This causes a disruption in the early part of the process and gives the Right a chance to complain that the plan is unworkable. Sure it is, when the Right has choked off the money needed to make it work.
Now they are flooding those local exchanges in states where there are the most uninsured people with phony paper work, thereby delaying the process of getting these people, many of whom are in desperate need of healthcare, into the system. To what end? 40 attempts to legislate the plan out of existence have failed. Any reasonable man knows that the definition of insanity is someone doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result. Does that mean that the conservative Right are all insane, or are they just mean spirited and devoid of human kindness?
It would seem that the latte is the case when one looks at what is going on in states, primarily in the deep south and the Rockies, where governors have blocked the transition to Medicare of the poorest in their states, thereby depriving those on the lowest rungs of the social ladder of an opportunity to partake in the social largess that could come wholly from the taxation of those who already have more than they need.
Are the bigots of the right so infused by hatred over having a black man in the White House that they are willing to force sick kids to go without healthcare, or is it that they see some means to gain wealth and power that is tied in to the failure of the ACA.
That is, of course true of the insurance companies, who stand to lose the most when finally, a single payer system is implemented, a result that is inevitable. Right now those morally bankrupt organizations are pouring millions into the hands of lobbyists, attempting to buy off any and all votes that might jeopardize their death grip on medical insurance.
Anyone who is at all involved with the ACA knows that once the system has a chance to get a foothold and develop itself, the next step will be to turn it into a single payer system and the insurance companies will be out in the cold. These same people realize that the step after single-payer will be serious tort reform, thereby leaving those ambulance chasing scum, who now cost the system, billions, out in the cold. Lawyers and insurance companies the traditional bottom feeders of the American social system but powerful enemies in any fight. It will be tough enough to defeat them under normal circumstances but the addition of the crazed Tea Party faction of the GOP makes it a serious battle.
This used to be a country where people cared about helping one another. Now I look around and all I see are greedy pigs; animals, that care nothing for the needs of others, but see only the fulfillment of their own avaricious desires.
It’s no wonder we can’t sustain a foreign policy that doesn’t put us at odds with the rest of the world when we can’t put together a domestic policy that doesn’t keep us from trying to screw both each other and those less fortunate than ourselves.