Friday, June 29, 2012

The Young Turks - Roberts' Decision

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5 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

What political pressure was he under and from whom? My only guess it was from the Health Care Ins. Ind. that is a huge GOP funder. They wanted those 30 mil. new customers handed to them as promised and must have been telling GOP pols don't screw us or else. Robert's then bent to the plutocrats and stuck a knife in the back of the tea party people. The way he finagled with the mandate and cut the legs out from under Medicaid seems to prove that. The beltway left might not be so happy about this ruling when they start to look closer @ how Narrowly Roberts et al. now view the so called Commerce clause. All in all this was a political Victory for Obama but it was and is a deeply Conservative ruling about a deeply regressive and Corporatist law written by Corp. lobbyists to garnish the bottom lines of that Industry.

5:46 PM
Jim Sande said...

I agree with what you are saying here. Personally I am learning as it unravels and as the articles are written etc.

Fundamentally we all want to be able to see a doctor who can heal whatever problem that might develop. The critical problems which are now so common in society are the real worries, cancer, auto accident, heart problems, stroke. We want to be able to have access to a facility and people that can help us without handing over all our hard earnings and resources. At the center of that is the insurance industry which has broken down medical treatment into a step by step guide with strict rules governing allotment of time and resources used to help heal an individual. If you fall outside of the insurance guidelines, you're out. Insurance companies now make trillions on disease, essentially life itself, because we want to live. So they have financially tapped the main fundamental resource we have, our lives. Would you hand over all your resources, or die. This is the choice. And if we have no resources to begin with - we die.

It is more incumbent on us more than ever to take care of our own health the best we can within the limitations that are imposed. We have to keep up to speed with good self care.

Within this context most Americans are failing to take care of themselves. We are heavier, and sicker, yet medicine can prolong our lives. That's the rub.

The way you make something not relevant, is that you eliminate the need.

What percentage of the health care needs of Americans would dissolve if everyone maintained the best self care possible. !0% - 50% - 80%?

Eventually we all die and we need help at the end. We need some critical care at some point. A few are fortunate and slowly die with ease at home and live productively and well right up to the end. This is probably not the norm, but I don't really know.

Th right wing lacks the ability to carefully parse and delineate policy. What they do delineate is a very careful plan of attack. They know cutting out strategy very well.

Roberts is interesting to me because one might ascertains that he was under significant pressures from many sides, and he does not appear to have cracked. He is basically now at the center of this mess. The buck stopped at Roberts.

Corporations are the preeminent entities in this country. Their power only grows, their wealth grows, the owners become stronger. That's our corporatist country. We know this. If you want to change something there are two choices. There's the right wing approach which is a carefully delineated plan of attack, or there's building a new model which makes the old one not relevant. The right wing regards their method as freedom, the other method is freedom.

9:50 PM
Glynn Kalara said...

I have come to the conclusion the so called Health Ins. business is a scam at its bottom and is deeply immoral and unethical. It should be against the law to trade in human suffering the way they do. Worse are the pols who feed off of them. Obama included.

11:23 PM
Jim Sande said...

One of the major reasons why health care is so unaffordable is because doctors must pay for insurance as well to cover themselves from litigation over malpractice. Those insurance fees are much much higher than people imagine. Plus right now it costs about $250,000 for someone to go through medical school.

A doctor right off the bat has to cover insurance and schooling loan fees which alone are enormous and that is in part why the bill for $250 for 15 minutes etc is there. The insurance fees are broken down too, for example if a doctor wants to prescribe drugs, that insurance malpractice fee is huge. In other words a doctor does not have to prescribe drugs, but if he or she wants to they must expand their malpractice insurance to cover drug prescription as a service and potential area for litigation protection. Doctors pay out a lot of dough simply to get off the ground. A lot of that dough is malpractice insurance costs.


Here's one solution -

12:21 AM
Jim Sande said...

One more point here - notice that in all this time since this bill was originally brought out, the rightwing/tea bags never once, not once, went on a rant about insurance companies - not one itty bitty complaint or finger pointed at big insurance.

9:33 AM

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