Jagdish Tytler
First and foremost of all that has been written or said it is essential to draw attention to the fact that the Anti-Sikh Riots of 1984 was a catastrophic aberration, an earthquake that shook, mangled and tortured millions of people, not only in India but nearly the whole world. [...]
By: blucevalo
So there’s also the conservative fear of being locked into a nationalized, anti-competitive system you don’t like or is otherwise inferior to what you had before. What in the world could possibly be inferior to what we have now? And I don’t mean some conservative boogabooga fantasy construct, either.
By: palidor
Actually that last post was a couple weeks ago. But still, mere hours after I watch it, here it is! Maybe that means MeFi is failing me.
By: FireballForever
This is depressing. It has nothing to do with productivity or a healthy populace, or poor people having insurance. This is pure, unbridled captalisim. ‘Health’ is nothing but the product, and the companies that trade in ‘Health’ are fighting tooth and nail to get a favorable bill passed or keep the status quo. I don’t know, I have no proof, but I believe that something is looming regarding health care costs. Something that is making this a very urgent issue for Obama. Possibly that without reform, he believes that a full economic recovery (whatever that may be) won’t be possible, because of the enormous costs. Just like with the banking system taking such a toll on the economy. I believe that if a plan favorable to the insurance companies passes, the best option is probably to buy stock in health care and insurance related companies, and then move to Canada (and I don’t say that flippantly). I’m with the two experts, that basically the system as it is needs to be replaced, but I don’t think that will happen. I only hope the stop-gap measure that might actually get passed now isn’t just round after round of Chemo, when a new wonderdrug (that isn’t FDA approved, mind you) would be a one-pill cure.
By: orthogonality
And if 18 thousand Americans die each year because they can’t go to a doctor, or because they fear going will mean being deined coverage or bankruptcy, that’s entirely acceptable “collateral damage” as far as Bill Kristol and Jim DeMint and Eric Cantor are concerned. Eighteen thousand preventable deaths — six 9/11s — per year is, for the Republican Party, an acceptable cost, just to damage Obama, just to get another chance to plunge this counyry into more debt to pay off the already rich and the well connected. Eventually, we will get single payer in this country, one way or another — just as, eventually we got Social Security. It may not be soon enough for me, or for you, but the day will come, and it’s coming fast. And the Republicans who spent so many years blocking it will be seen just like the racist buffoons who delayed Social Security and the Voting Rights Act. But this time, instead of just blacks and liberals who will remember, every American who had to delay getting care for himself or for her kids will remember. And very time Americans go into a clinic or a hospital after we get single payer, their amazement that it can be so simple and easy and right to get the care they need regardless of their pocketbooks will remind them to damn the Republicans again for all the wasted lost years of fear and suffering. And the Republican Party (and its Blue Dog Democrat enablers too) will be damned and abandoned. It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when, and of how many people will die or be permanently disabled or be bankrupted before we get there. It’s a question of how much the Republican Party wants to make itself irrelevant and despised. We shall overcome. And those who seek to delay that day will be damned.
