Obama 2012 Campaign Helped By MoveOn.org, AFL-CIO Super PAC Alliance
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
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 legislation 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.). That's a fact.
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.
"Covering the kids up to age 26" is a cruel farcical joke. To begin with, how many people do you think were bought off with that? To have insurance, to pay for it, you need to have a job. To keep a job in this economy. To get a job in this economy. Not just the 26 year olds who can't find a job in this economy, but their middle-aged (and up) parents who need to keep their jobs, not be outsourced or downsized, in order to keep these 'children' on their insurance policies.
And with Obama's 'Super Congress' planning Medicare and Medicaid cuts, including upping the age for qualifying, as seniors they won't be getting "affordable" insurance.
Then there's the prohibition on the government from being able to negotiate lower drug prices or reimportation.
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