Neeta, Do you mean that shoveling hundreds of billions of dollars to a few private cartels is not good health care reform? I agree. You know, the private cartels that spent 400 million to write this bill. The guys with all the capital, otherwise known as capitalists.
However, I don’t agree that the 50 million people that can’t afford health care should be left to die or emergency care. Which really cost a hefty sum as well. That is, unless you advocate that these people die in the street to prove to them personal responsibility. No ideology can make me think that, sorry. I chose humanity and humaneness as my primary ideology. Nothing trumps that.
This is where the ruling elite turn a little pragmatic. Because they know if that were allowed to happen then there would be cries for real socialism. Where their money would be in danger.
So they, in a preemptive strike, devised a way they could become even more wealthy and wrap it up in altruism. Clever little buggers our ruling class are, I’ll give them that. Long term viability is low, though.
Of course, like loan mods, people seem to miss who the biggest beneficiary is and only focus on people getting free stuff. This seems to be the cognitive dissonance of the Right. Missing out on who are the biggest beneficiaries are of these “socialist” reforms. Just a hint, it ain’t no cabal of socialist holding meetings in the dark. It goes straight to the top capitalists in the country.
This, like the continuous intravenous tax-payer feed to the banking industry is a desperate attempt to keep things the same and save capitalism.
This is what late stage capitalism looks like as it starts to eat itself and the fully indoctrinated will call it “socialism” the whole way down.
Heck, At this point there aint no taxpayers paying on anything other than some part of some interest on past debt while more debt piles up.
No doubt, some would love to return to Dickens’s England which would be the absolute best letting the “free market” to work could offer. While children would die in the street and sections of the country become “bad lands”
No, I don’t think anybody in halls of congress or K street have too much say in how the future unfolds as capitalism collapses on itself. It is guaranteed to be an interesting time, though. That much, I know.
I suggest people hold humaneness over ideology. Because we are going to need it.
