Here's today's podcast with panelists Laurie Buckley, Dave Plunkett, James Tripp and host Bill Bronner:
Panelists discuss the SCOTUS Affordable Care Act ruling, Presidential politics and the weekly Trippitorial.
Trippitorial - Supreme Tax
America’s health care system is ailing and I don’t feel
so good myself. The affordable Care Act is compromised legislation. It’s
compromised because the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyists had to let some
of the politician’s staffs write part of it. Instead of implementing a
streamlined one payer, not for profit model, it preserves a failed model of
limited coverage based on profit, not patient care. It preserves a market not
worth preserving and insures increased future profits for those corporations
with little thought given to cost containment. This happened because the
campaign contributions politicians get from the insurance and pharmaceutical
interests are too big to bail.
The for profit private insurance model of health care is
a failed model whose life should not be prolonged. It’s time to pull the plug.
The constitution does not begin, “We the people of the United States, in order
to form a more perfect market…”
Chief Justice John Roberts said the penalty for not
participating in the private market is a tax. The whole thing is a tax. It’s a
tax we can pay to a private corporation, or for a smaller fee, to the
government. I would prefer to pay it to the government for a single payer
non-profit model like Medicare. The government should not be coercing its
citizens to buy products from corporations, although I did recently
incorporate.
Probably not since Rome hired private companies to
collect taxes from their conquered territories has a citizen been mandated to
pay a tax to a private corporation. And we all know what happened to Rome…What
happened to Rome?
It’s like the government ordering us to send our taxes
directly to Halliburton to pay for the Iraq war with no other bidders. Oh,
wait, that happened. Halliburton was essentially the single payer provider for
the Iraq war and yes, they did have death panels. But the affordable care act
does not have death panels. Private insurers have death panels that deny
coverage or delay it until you are dead. “The doctor will see you now…oh.
Next.”
Forcing everyone into the private market keeps the unfair
market alive. It’s like making us pay for protection: “I’d advise youse to
peruse a primary plan from Blue Cross. And I put the emphasis on ‘blue’ and
‘cross.’”
The insurance companies are the pimps of our whore health
care system. That’s why you see their executives driving around in pink
Cadillac’s.
Corporations want to be people? I say let’s let some of
them die. And hopefully they’ll be uninsured. Let some markets die.
Corporations may be people, but guess what? I don’t like people.
Mitt Romney says the penalty is a tax unless it was
signed into law by Mitt Romney. He’s an idiot. He said he wants to repeal Romneycare,
although he may be confused. Republicans would repeal common sense if they had
any.
Getting money out of politics is the real cure for health
care reform. Any elected politician who is not actively pursuing campaign
finance reform is corrupt and should be voted out of office, although he’s
probably not in his office. He’s probably at a fundraiser somewhere. And I
think that describes most of them.
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