On Oct 6, 2013, at 10:05 PM, mex sara <[email protected]> wrote: > i am still struggling with the "Why " is this affordable health care bill > after being passed into law so unacceptable ? ... not being across the > whole right wing ideology thing ... is it because the money behind the > Plotters own fund management companies that invest in Insurance Companies > ...or something equally banal ? >
The people behind this hate hate HATE HATE The New Deal with the fire of a million suns; and this is one of the final pieces that has eluded us for a very long time; Truman was the first to push hard for this, and he almost got it, and that would have been something like the NHS in Britain. Given that the ACA mandates that every American purchase insurance through private insurance companies, it's not that these people are invested in insurance companies. Insurance companies are one of the bigger forces lobbying for the ACA. It's a guranteed strea of profit for them. It's smaller than what they were getting before, but even they recognized that what we had before was in an unrecoverable death spiral…as insurance costs grew and exclusion rates increased, they would have had to charge more and more, and refused more and more services to be able to sustain their profitability. Now they're restricted by law to a specific maximum profit, but they're also entitled by law to a known and steady income flow from the American public. They're not stupid, any more than the hospitals or doctors who take Medicare patients. Sure the per-patient income is lower due to Medicare's pricing structures, but it's a guaran-damn-teed flow. If it was really such an onerous imposition, you would see doctors and hospitals abandoning Medicare in droves. Not happening. In fact *more* doctors are signing up to be Medicare providers. Rationally they're choosing safe profitability. Second the ACA, and most particularly the individual mandate, came out of the very same think tanks, paid by the very same conservative billionaires, as the key part of the 'conservative' response to Clinton's original health care reform. The ACA was really THEIR IDEA in the first place, and this apparently chaps their asses to no end. It was implemented by the Republican's last presidential candidate when he was Governor, who was prevented, by their own paid-for base, from touting that well-working 'conservative' idea, and who had to run on 'repealing the ACA on day one'. I don't think rationality enters into the equation at all, unless their actual plan is to burn the country down so they can rule over the ashes, in which case they're just exactly the kind of sociopaths their public actions would make them out to be. My guess would be to follow the money. Find out who started shorting Treasuries way back when this nonsense started. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
