The
GOP/teavangelists are determined that they will sabotage the implementation of
the Affordable Care Act.
Yes, I said “sabotage.” The unholy alliance of the ultra-wealthy, the
ultra-fundamentalist, and the basically bigoted is doing everything that they
can to prevent the inclusion of poor and working poor Americans in the lists of
those with health insurance. Failing to
block it in the formal voting, they now schedule symbolic votes – costing about
1.5 million dollars per event in an effort to keep the teavangelists voting
with the GOP loyalists instead of taking their particular brand of anti-everything
governmental off into an attempt to form a working third party. Fortunately, it appears as if they lack a
sufficient base of anti-intellectuals, bigots, and anti-immigrants to forge a
viable voting populace.
There may be
some states that should be invited to leave the union until such time as they
realize that education based upon STEM courses instead of rightwing religious
mythology is essential to the future of this nation. These same states should be made to
understand that the social safety nets benefit the populace, which may come to
include those red staters who find that the economic plans they supported being
applied to other citizens are not nearly so viable or accurate when they begin
to feel those effects personally.
Here’s the
major message for today. The time
devoted for physicians and patients to discuss end of life options should be
billable time. Physicians should be able
to initiate the discussion while the patient is lucid and capable of evaluating
all options. Such a discussion is no
more a “death panel” than Sarah Palin is able to speak English without butchering
the language.
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