I'm just going to say my 2 Cents and bow out of this thread - I simply find the blindness in the political views to be utterly repugnant. Burn me in effigy if you will, it matters not to me.
The thing is, there is no way around it. We need the AHA so badly that even a flawed version of it will suffice... for the moment, anyhow. That's how bad things have been. Liken it to having your car breakdown on the side of the road. The mechanic that comes along to help doesn't have what you need on hand, but he has something that will at least hold out long enough get you to his shop. That's pretty much where America is at right now. And the Tea Party is not helping by acting like some old grandmother in the back seat screaming about how we did thing back in the old days when all you had to rely on was yourself and God. (And don't try and tell me differently. That's Ted Cruz's platform to a T).
As for the Republicans and the Tea Party... They have gone so far to the Right that the Republicans of Bush-The-First's and even Clinton's era would be aghast. Oh sure, they had Newt. But even then he was considered a charismatic outlier. He didn't last terribly long as the Majority Leader of the House.
But anyhow... as I said, even though it's flawed, the AHA will do for now. We can fix it later. The care providers and pharmaceutical companies will be beaten into submission over costs submitted to the insurers... and then we'll kick the insurers into line where we need to. It will take time, and it will be a painful process... but it will happen, so long as the Republican party quits trying to undermine the AHA outright and focus on the real problems at hand.
That's all for me. Catch you guys later. Not having Internet blows.
PS: Platinum level coverage at about 65USD a month? No deductible? 25USD Co-pays? High-level Dental for another 15USD? I don't care if I don't get any tax credit back for the 2014 tax returns, that's a win for me. Thank you, AHA.
The thing is, there is no way around it. We need the AHA so badly that even a flawed version of it will suffice... for the moment, anyhow. That's how bad things have been. Liken it to having your car breakdown on the side of the road. The mechanic that comes along to help doesn't have what you need on hand, but he has something that will at least hold out long enough get you to his shop. That's pretty much where America is at right now. And the Tea Party is not helping by acting like some old grandmother in the back seat screaming about how we did thing back in the old days when all you had to rely on was yourself and God. (And don't try and tell me differently. That's Ted Cruz's platform to a T).
As for the Republicans and the Tea Party... They have gone so far to the Right that the Republicans of Bush-The-First's and even Clinton's era would be aghast. Oh sure, they had Newt. But even then he was considered a charismatic outlier. He didn't last terribly long as the Majority Leader of the House.
But anyhow... as I said, even though it's flawed, the AHA will do for now. We can fix it later. The care providers and pharmaceutical companies will be beaten into submission over costs submitted to the insurers... and then we'll kick the insurers into line where we need to. It will take time, and it will be a painful process... but it will happen, so long as the Republican party quits trying to undermine the AHA outright and focus on the real problems at hand.
That's all for me. Catch you guys later. Not having Internet blows.
PS: Platinum level coverage at about 65USD a month? No deductible? 25USD Co-pays? High-level Dental for another 15USD? I don't care if I don't get any tax credit back for the 2014 tax returns, that's a win for me. Thank you, AHA.