No one is more in favor of universal health care than I am but this is not universal and it's not really health care. It is a mandate to buy insurance (which may or may not provide decent coverage) from for-profit corporations.
Here's part of a comment I found on Alternet:
I have a problem with it too.Well, folks, this is it. Forcing every citizen to patronize these corporations is fascism – and it is a pernicious precedent nobody seems to have considered long term – like the ”corporations are people too” precedent. Maybe we should pay a monthly tithe to WalMart next.
To make it clear, National Health, single payer and the public option are all pure socialism; I don’t have the slightest problem with that. This plan is fascist. That, I have a problem with.
Look, if we really had to do this incrementally, what would be wrong with slowly lowering the age of eligibility for Medicare until everybody was covered?
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I think of this as the foot in the door. I believe it will be tweeked over the years until we finally get the single-payer health care we all need.
ReplyDeleteI really do hope you're right, BooCat!
ReplyDeleteI agree that, at least it's a step in the right direction...and a huge step it is!
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I fully agree with your suggestion regarding eligibility for Medicare and I have written to President Obama, my senators and my congresswoman to say that very thing. Perhaps someday...
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