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Barack Obama Could Go After Supreme Court On Health Care, James Clyburn Suggests

Monday, April 2, 2012


There is no "stepping stone" to Medicare for all.  

ACA is not universal, it has no chance of expanding to cover everyone, and it leads to the end of all public healthcare programs (Medicaid, Medicare, SCHIP, CHAMPUS, veterans care, etc.). 

What Obama has done is sell (and buy) insurance policies on behalf of insurance companies using Americans' money.  Over-priced, lousy insurance policies, at that.  That's a pretty neat trick, by the way -- To sell and buy.  It's like playing chess with yourself.

Having insurance doesn't mean getting health care.  BIG DIFFERENCE.
 
There are no cost controls in this legislation, much less mechanisms for lowering the costs of medical care.  No controls over co-pays, no controls on deductibles.

Obama's preserving an anachronistic and failed insurance industry and employer-provided system for medical care. It's government sanctioned racketeering.  Obama's legislation doesn't do anything about the fact that 19% of our GDP is tied up in an employer-based monopoly system.  Ending employment-based insurance was what everybody wanted.
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