National health care for Americans narrowly passed the House. One Republican voted for the bill. The Republicans do not want Americans to have national health care and they do not want health care reform. They had nothing to offer and now they have made their bet. They hope and pray that all Americans do not have health care and they hope and pray that there are problems so they can get elected in 2010 and turn back the clock to their old ways to doing things.
The Democrats have been trying to get national health care since Harry S Truman was President of the United States. Republicans have been fighting to keep the United States from having health care for all. The Republicans have been trying to do away with Social Security since the Democrats passed it under FDR.
If the health care for all passes in the Senate then the Republicans will do all they can to make sure it does not work.
When it is a success, the way Social Security is, the Republicans will refuse to accept it and fight it and lie about it and try and get rid of it. When that does not work they will say of course we support national health care but they will want to make it private … They will want to turn it over to the insurance companies to run. They will want to turn it over to banks, Wall Street corporations to manage for you.
“…The Affordable Health Care for America Act, or H.R. 3962, restricts insurance companies from denying coverage to anyone with a pre-existing condition or charging higher premiums based on gender or medical history. It also provides federal subsidies to those who cannot afford it and guarantees coverage for 96 percent of Americans, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office…” CNN
The Senate has to pass this bill now and the President has to sign it. The GOP is going to pull out everything they got to fight this…Every lie they can come up with… It is going to be a battle between good (Democrats) and evil (Republicans). The Democrats fighting to give all Americans health care and the Republicans fighting to keep Americans from having health care.
Who will win? Will big insurance corporations win or will the American people win?
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I hope Jim is around and blogging 15 years from now when the Repulicans will belatedly be wanting to “save” the national health care program . Same program they voted almost unanimously to never start. This is a good thing for the US – it’s overdue – it wont’ be easy – it is expensive but in the end we’ll be a better country for providing some degree of equality for all with respect to health care.
Right now it’s a crap shoot – if you happen to have a job that provides it or happen to be married to the right person or have that benefit in retirement or can afford it on your own you have good health care – state of the. Lose your job, have the wrong job – have a spouse find a younger man/woman, have a chronic disqualifying condition, etc, etc and any health issue is the central focus of your survial and your financial life. For some reason – a generally generous nation and people can show its raw and selfish side when whipped into a frenzy by those who mostly have health care and turn a blind eye to their brother-in-law, neighbor or a faceless stranger not lucky enough to have covereage.
But give it 15 or 20 years, maybe less, and history will be rewritten and the Republicans will want belatedly on the bandwagon. Jim can put it in more colorful language but they will tell this story of late 2009 completely differently – just as with Medicare, civil rights, voting rights, every other sea-change social issue that they’ve initially oopposed then found a way to embrace as if they were in favor all along.
Jim – say it your way. More to the point.