Nov 08, 2009
Wealthcare Victory in the House!!!
Strike up the band! Release the balloons! Let the photo-ops begin!
In an historic vote, the democrat-controlled House of Representatives managed (barely) to pass sweeping healthcare reform that will in no way affect the god-given profit margins of the insurance and pharmaceutical companies nor the fat dividends of their Wall Street investors.
Phew. America seemed perilously close to enacting policies that evinced compassion, effectiveness, and common sense.
But not to worry.
Thirty percent of every healthcare dollar will continue to be sucked up by the heathcare profiteers.
Even better, LESS healthcare will go women and their reproductive bothers, thanks to the dick-brained efforts of a bunch of democrat representatives.
Importantly, they kept the whole thing employer-based, so as unemployment keeps rising so will the ranks of the uninsured, making the loss of one’s job a veritable death sentence, to be served soon after one’s personal bankruptcy.
All of these glorious changes will take another year or two to take effect, so, as with the foreclosure problem, we’ve made it clear that when the rich are troubled they get instant mega-bucks solutions, but when it’s the rest of us, sorry, but these things take time, and money is tight.
And the best news of all? Now it has to go through the Senate, giving the corporate lobbyists, religious nuts, tea-baggers, and spineless legislators more time to do their tawdry best.
Said it before, I’ll say it again: American, heal thyself.
Michael Sky | CommonHealth
Right on! Only problem is that most people don’t have a clue as to how to go about that, other than by gong to allopathic medicine men who are almost equally clueless and don’t want to worry their client unnecessarily by telling them anything that might work! O well, it’s good that a lot of us survive! Jan
Too many people seem to have no desire to learn about their own bodies. And the medical establishment has convinced them that there’s no point in trying to learn.