The latest example of the right's tendency to eat its own is the furor one is seeing in some quarters of the blogosphere over Florida attorney general Pam Bondi's interview with Greta Van Susteren. I think that if one watches the video and really parses it, one will se that she is not saying "Yay rah Romenycare in all its facets, that's what we want for the whole country," which, as we know, is tantamount to saying, "Keep FHer-care in place."
Yes, she is working for the Romney campaign. But I get the clear indication that she sees Romney as having seen what didn't work and what he regrets about the way his health care program in Massachussetts played out. What she is putting forth - let's remember, she is a leader in the fight of the states to overturn FHer-care - is the very conservative notion that states ought to be laboratories for public policy so that we can see what works and what doesn't.
I don't ever recall reading "and replace" from you when you spout repeal. What it should be is a mandator universal plan but what we have instead is a train that you naysayers largely wrecked. The damnable private carrriers are still in the crapshoot and livin the universal mandate which of course it has to be to be true insurance. Social insurance, not socialism. We have been over & over it. There is no changing your TP mind nor mine. What was perceived as broken by the vast majority of the populace in 2007 and long before is still broken.
ReplyDeleteRomney scares me more than Newt both are phonies willing to spout whatever to win. So, obviously is Obama. But Romney is clearly the phoniest to ever tread the party plank. Oh well, I have been going within for over 3 decades. The only place I can make a change. Make a difference. And good riddence to the Prophet Perry and his so certain ilk I say.
ReplyDeleteI get the states rights thing. But look how the Feds are fucking with the med mar states. Hey, I work with this guy who has a Peruvian honey he met on latincupid.com and has been dating for 3 yrs, each successful in their fields and prosperous. But he has a home in AZ and will not have her come there. Wonder why? How does thiat fit into states rights. You know they profile there and mazke life miserable for all latins, illegal hor not. That was his point.
ReplyDeleteHe's justifiably skittish about being given more of a once-over in any encounter with haw-enforcement personnel than people from most other demographic groups would be. that has nothing - nothiong - to do with Arizona under Jan Brewer's leadership enforcing federal immigration law.
ReplyDeleteRe: "damnable private carriers:" No, let's go the opposite way. Let's narrow the focus of government back down to protecting our actual rights. There is no right to health care.
ReplyDeleteIf government were only big enough to tend to its Constitutionally specified functions, we could easily afford it.
Re: AZ's harsh and possibly unconstitutional immigration law: the point is that a citizen of AZ with a Brazilian girlfriend fears for her safety and freedom in his home state. Anecdotal, but just sayin' You know the police profile and harrass. By the way, there is a lot not working in the similarly structured Alabama law.
ReplyDeleteAfter Immigration Crackdown, Alabama And Georgia Farmers Fear They Won’t Have Enough Labor To Harvest | As a new planting season begins, farmers across Alabama and Georgia are unsure if they will have enough labor this year when it comes time to harvest. Farmers have been struggling with a dearth of skilled farm workers ever since officials in both states passed harmful anti-immigrant laws that prompted many migrant workers and their families to flee. Some farmers are considering planting less or moving to less labor-intensive crops, and others are anticipating higher labor costs to attract workers. “Before this law [HB 56], migrant workers would just show up. They knew when they were needed,” said Brett Hall, Alabama’s deputy agriculture commissioner. “That’s not happening anymore.”
Read more at: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01/20/408145/after-immigration-crackdown-alabama-and-georgia-farmers-fear-they-wont-have-enough-labor-to-harvest/?mobile=nc
Damnable private carriers, as we have been over and over before, cull the best risks, shun the questionable and spend premium dollars on, among many other non-loss related functions such as marketing, commissions, bonuses for management, that have nothing whatsoever to do with insuring and indemnifying for losses of its insureds. And if and when they go belly up (after being raked by, not the insureds, perhaps the providers and definitely the agents and financial management, they always get "bailed out" so to speak by the Insurance Guaranty Associations in their jurisdictions. Bail out $$$ comes from all the policyholders in the state. A bankrupt ins co can be essentially bought out for nothing by a solvent one which assumes all their policies (assets) without their liabilities. There is currently a right to health care until you repeal the laws in all the states. Emergency rooms and hospitals cannot refuse treatment. So, yes, currently health care is a right, if you want to put it that way. I know of many instances of uninsured, nay uninsurable people accumulating hundreds of thousands of bills for treatment, without which they would die, and guess who still pays, before, after and despite the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act enacted into law 3/23/10?
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