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“The House of
Representatives will take its 37th
vote to
repeal the Affordable Care Act — or it might be the 38th.
With more than three dozen votes cast, it’s difficult to keep track.
It’s easy to write off these
votes as pure political spectacle with no substantial meeting. Members of
Congress can tell their constituents that they voted to repeal Obamacare and
move on to other issues.
But there’s actually a compelling
case on the other side, that these actions do really matter in a substantive
way. This slew of three dozen repeal votes have changed both how the Affordable
Care Act works and how the public perceives it.
Last month, the Kaiser Family
Foundation polled Americans on whether the Affordable Care Act is still law.
Twelve percent of Americans — that’s about one in eight people
— think that Congress repealed the Affordable Care Act. Another 23 percent
aren’t sure or refused to answer the question…”
Cassi Creek: “trouble, that starts with “T” and that rhymes
with “C”, and that stands for Congress.
There is no
doubt that the repetitive attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act are
political theater. There is no doubt
that sufficient disinformation and agitprop will confuse a sizeable number of
the voting public about the scope and continued existence of “Obama Care.” There is no doubt that this House of
Representatives is demonstrating just how bought and paid for they really
are.
Of sufficient
interest to the entire argument as to make any real attempt to “repeal and
replace” is the unmentioned and carefully concealed just how much the Insurance
companies that will be covering the currently uninsured will add to their bottom
line. Suffice it to say that the health
insurance companies will enjoy windfall profits at least one order of magnitude
greater than their current profits. The
only way to prevent such obscene profiteering is to join the rest of the
industrialized world in implementing a socialized medical system and discarding
for profit health insurance.
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