Rob Rogers for May 21, 2013

Destruction is easier than building.

Doing nothing is easier than destruction.

The GOP have presented no ideas on healthcare, other than Obamacare itself. Now that they’ve decided that their idea is an attack on freedom, all they’ve got is “continue to let sick Americans die in poverty.” The American people aren’t with you on this one, guys. They love every element of Obamacare, except that Republican voters can be convinced that they don’t like the “Obama” part. Once it starts working, it will be impossible to repeal without having a plan in place that improves on it.

The previous health system was failing exponentially. When the most needy people are routinely denied coverage, they will either stay home and die, or they will present to the emergency room for “free” care, which is far more costly. How hard is it to understand that meds for diabetes are cheaper than amputations, dialysis, and the other consequences of poor treatment?

Obamacare is a band-aid, which will fail in the future as well. But we cannot go back to the previous system and expect it to work, or for it to save us money. We must replace Obamacare with Single Payer. It is the eventual answer, and the only question is how long it will take for the brain-deads in Congress to understand that.

I don’t have a problem with changing our system. Voting to scuttle it, especially 3 dozen times, is a waste of our tax dollars. It’s time to expect actual work to come out of Congress. We pay them way too much to allow them to continue to cost us more by doing nothing about anything.

‘Obamacare may turn out to be a disaster but that doesn’t make the clusterfracked system we currently have acceptable or superior. Most righties won’t accept that free markets don’t work if the customers can’t say no and other is no alternative. Which mean righties can’t accept that medicare for all is the only real solution.’-One of the big issues that I think is overlooked is that Republicans DO NOT WANT a solution. They do not want ordinary people to get good health care, especially poor people and, you know, those people.-They had every opportunity to participate in health care reform and still do, but they have not advanced any proposals to improve health care.-Remember, when the debate was in progress, Republicans advanced one idea, with seven senate sponsors. When Obama supported the idea, Republicans announced that they would filibuster their own proposal.

Don’t waste your breath. I tried telling it that health insurance premiums were rising faster than inflation and wages for ten straight years as of the article provided.