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Obamacare?  Single Payer?  Or Free Health Care!

10/3/2013

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I watched a Jimmy Kimmel segment from last week where he went out on the streets and asked people whether they supported the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare.  Everyone he talked to, regardless of their age, race, gender, etc., said they support the Affordable Care Act, but do not support Obamacare because "I don't want to pay for someone else's healthcare."  Now I would estimate that probably about 60% (and that's being conservative) of the population really don't know that the Affordable Care Act and Obamacare are the exact same thing.  In fact, Obamacare is just the tag that opponents have applied to the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  The truth is the ACA creates a system, through the state exchanges, that gives many more people the right to have healthcare coverage.  The ACA prohibits insurers from declining people for pre-existing health conditions.  It permits children to stay on their parent's plans until they are 26.  It also in some cases reduces deductibles and provides financial assistance for people to get coverage.  Still, this ACA is far from what we want and need.  Actually, the ACA is only a concession or reform to appease the masses of working people so as to evaporate the righteous demand for free quality health care.  We know this because if you study history you will see that the question of free health care isn't a new demand.  It's a demand that goes back at least 100 years (if not longer).  It's a demand that was formalized through the platform of the Communist Party USA in the 1920s and its the concept that Franklin Roosevelt stole and watered down in order to add to his New Deal legislation package in the 1940s.  In other words, things like the Oregon Health Plan, Medicare, and Medicaid, are watered down alternatives to the Communist Party's demand for free health care for all.

So today we are left with the ACA and idiots of all shapes, sizes, and colors, are trying to convince people that Obamacare is some boogie man that will keep people, primarily small business owners, from being able to turn a profit by demanding that they cover their employees if there are 50 or more of them.  First, from a cost analysis standpoint, there is plenty of data available to illustrate clearly that healthy people are much more productive workers.  That's a simple common sense argument.  Obviously, if you don't have any issues with your vehicle, but you take it into the shop for a diagnostic check, just to make sure nothings wrong, and you do this on a regular basis, you are going to spend much less money on repairs than you will if you wait until something's wrong before you get that diagnostic exam.  This principle is also true with health care.  We know...Not we think...We know that preventive care lowers health care costs over the long haul.  So why are these people so opposed to it?  Because they're greedy and they don't even care enough about their employees to pay for the premiums up front.  They're rather just take the risk that you won't get ill or injured to save a few dollars in their pockets.  The fact that this strategy has reaped traumatic consequences for millions of workers and their families when they get sick, these employers couldn't care less about that because the capitalist business model tells them they can just get someone else to replace the sick or dead worker.  

For those selfish employers, even from a weak liberal standpoint, it's obvious that if you can't afford to provide your workers with the basic needs required for them to work for you, and health care falls within this category, then you shouldn't be in business.  This is a requirement for being an employer no different than having a driver's license, etc., are general requirements the employee must have and maintain.  But, I not attempting to defend the ACA.  I suscribe to the statement Malcolm X made 49 years ago when he declared "I'm not a politician...I'm not a student of politics.  I'm neither a democrat, not a republican, nor an amerikkkan, and got sense enough to know it!"  So, I'm not defending the ACA...Just the right of people to be healthy, not to have health insurance.  You see, health insurance is the problem, not the solution.  As long as you have the profit motive in health care, there will forever be a contradiction between quality care and how to run a business profitably.  This is the reason that single payer isn't the solution.  It's also the reason why the stock price for health insurance companies has increased dramatically since the passage of the ACA up to it's implementation this week.  We can't be fooled by this question of insurance because we know that health insurance is about making money so therefore, it's only good to have until you get really sick...I mean expensively sick.  Then, your health insurance company, no matter who they are, is trying to find ways to not treat you because if they don't have a process designed to eliminate you when you are expensive, they won't be profitable.  So, this is just how those companies function and there are plenty of stories out there of people who have been screwed royally by insurers who didn't want to pay expensive claims.  Even Kaiser, the so-called non-profit company, makes billions in profits annually.

Yes, we want to completely eradicate health insurance and the profit margin in health care.  This can only happen through socialist revolution and socialist free universal health care.  This is where providing health care for everyone is identified by the people as a priority for your society/economy.  As a result, production is organized around how much will need to be produced in order to produce enough surplus to provide health care for everyone.  You know, you estimate production, how much your industries produce and how much your society costs e.g. schools, hospitals, road maintenance, etc., and then your production is organized around providing for those societal requirements and commitments.  This is socialism folks.  Plain and simple.  Decisions made by the people.  Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't understand what socialism is and is reacting to capitalist propaganda.  My personal experience with socialism is from visiting Cuba in 1994.  I got a toothache.  Went to the dentist and they sat me down for 45 minutes and explained oral care to me in a way that I hadn't had explained to me before.  I got a root canal that day and 18 years later, that root canal is praised by every dentist I see here in the U.S.  Plus, the advice they gave me has prevented me from having a cavity since 1994.  How much did my root canal cost?  0, zero, nada, zilch, nathan!  FREE!  That's what free universal health care looks like.  It's a part of a society organized around production being a tool to meet the needs of the society, not provide profit for private citizens who are exploiting the pain and suffering of others.  This is what socialism is and that's what we propose you think about instead of reforms like ACA and single payer that only give the people crumbs while the corporations continue to come out on top at the end of the day.  Think about it.  Thinking ain't illegal yet?  Is it?
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    I don't see disagreement as a negative because I understand that Frederick Douglass was correct when he said "there is no progress without struggle."  Our brains are muscles.  Just like any other muscle in our body if we don't stress it and push it, the brain will not improve.  Or, as a bumper sticker I saw once put it, "If you can't change your mind, how do you know it's there?"

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