Forbes
reviews the Romney-Leno appearance last night.
Romney has no plan to replace the affordable care act beyond ignoring
the poor, beyond ignoring those who put off buying insurance until they became
ill, beyond blaming Obama for the mess the GOP\teavangelists have made of every
attempt to reform health care.
Forbes
acknowledges that the mandate to purchase individual policies is necessary if
the U.S. citizens wish to retain the good policies and practices already in
place thanks to the ACA. For those good
practices to continue, all of us must be in the pool of insured.
Sound like
socialism to you? Too bad. If you want to continue driving on public
highways, eating and drinking safe foods and water, sending your kids to public
schools; then wake up and realize that the way we pay for those things is by
taxing everyone for the privileges that we take for granted. Socialism?
European socialism? Hell
yes!
Romney and
the rest of the candidates are too young to remember what it was like before
Medicare. The great lie they advance is
that doctors provided charitable care and that the community coughed up for
those who were too poor to pay.
This argument
ignores the advances in health care that have taken place since LBJ signed off
on Medicare. Most of the diagnostic
procedures we take for granted today didn’t exist or were simply not available
in doctors’ offices.
Community
charity rarely extended beyond a carried in casserole and a pauper’s
grave. I know this because I was already
working, running the precursors of the high-level diagnostics we take for
granted today. What we consider
necessary diagnostics today was all-too-often still science fiction.
Romney
spilled the beans last night. The
teavangelists have no plan B to wheel in if the SCOTUS overturns the ACA. The health care mantra is going to
change. “We’re the Tea-Party, we want
our Medicare back.” They were warned to
be careful about what they wished for.
Feel free to lay the blame at their feet.
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