Why the GOP Can't Win on Health Care

[ElNono]

Why the GOP Can't Win on Health Care

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/gop-cant-win-health-care-king-burwell-obamacare-119290.html

Interesting read, IMO. ACA is a shitty law and an easy target, but it's been years, and we've yet know what the "plan" to replace it looks like.

[boutons_deux]

Why the GOP Can't Win on Health Care

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/gop-cant-win-health-care-king-burwell-obamacare-119290.html

Interesting read, IMO. ACA is a shitty law and an easy target, but it's been years, and we've yet know what the "plan" to replace it looks like.

it's shitty law because compromised Max Baucus had a health insurance corporate exec/lobbyist write it.

The control the health insurance industry has over govt (legislators and regulators) protected it from govt insurance/public option, and from ACA reducing for-profit insurance revenues.

BigCorp owns and run America, not the govt. Human-Americans, electing but not influencing their Congresscritters, are powerful to unscrew themselves.

So we got a unavoidably shitty law (although it has many strong points) for an unfixably shitty health care industry, just as shitty for-profit health insurers wanted.

And the compromised, VRWC SCOTUS5 allowed "states rights" to opt out of Medicaid expansion, allowing red-state states to continue to function as murderous, racist, xenophobic Death Panels that deny care to poor.