If there's anything being shoved down our throats these days, it's the claim that health care reform is being shoved down our throats. It's all part of the game the minority party is playing by trying to make you think the Democrats won the White House by some sort of fluke and that the desire for health care reform wasn't what Obama's majority of voters were hoping for.
It's been a year now and the screaming hasn't let up for a moment, but a recent poll shows that half the country favors the Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, whether or not you call it ObamaCare and only 43% think it's "too liberal."
It would be amusing of course if the bumper sticker bumpkins did get their "end of an error" by electing Mitt Romney who like the rest of them is giving us that old soft shoe about just how terrible the new law is because as the unimpaired remember, Mitt only a few years ago was hoping his new Massachusetts health care reform would go nationwide. It's easy to call a politician like that a whore, but it's unfair to whores and I don't want to distract from his fellow streetwalker who has been spending a fortune with TV ads warning us of the holocaust, the disaster, the calamity, the apocalypse sure to wipe us from the earth if we have to have health insurance rather than hope the emergency room can cure our cancer or heart disease -- at public expense. I mean never mind the war, conquest, famine and death -- this is health care!
I truly feel that as time goes by and more people reap the benefits of the Affordable Health Care Act there will be more and more believers. In just this past year there have been thousands of folks who have already benefited from certain aspects of it.
ReplyDeleteThat's just what happened with Social Security.
ReplyDeleteWhile there may be parts of this act that will not work as intended, the fact remains that healthcare costs are out of control in this country and we have long needed healthcare reform.
ReplyDeleteThe states that already have systems in place like MA and OR do very well with their systems. Listen to who makes the most noise and you will know who is getting the biggest payoff form health insurnace lobbists.
From TPM: If benefits are rescinded, some patients can't go back. And for some, it could even be a death sentence.
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