Jill August 18th, 2009 1:53 pm
This article is typical of the way health care is covered. It's about the "civil war" within the D party. It's those crazy right wingers. It's about Obama's chances of reelection. You know what, I don't really care very much about any of that. I would like articles to focus on the substance of this issue.
What is Obama's pharma/insurance industry plan? What is the Republican plan? What is the left wing plan? What is the blue dog plan? Why don't we know this information after so much coverage? Let's get real information out there and see what people think once there are actual plans to talk about. The media could even talk about what many people of our country keep indicating they want--universal health care.
The following is a little oversimplified but much less so than you may think.
There are only two US proposed plans really. One plan is that the health insurance executives want you to be legally liable to pay their sky high rates. The executives will agree to discontinue a few but not all of their most outrageous actions in exchange for you being responsible to help pay their hundreds of millions of dollars of pay.
Yes there are various bells and whistles added on in various specific mark-ups, and I grant you that for a given individual a bell or a whistle could be critical.
But looking at the forest instead of the trees, legally and economically, the "mandate," which is another name for new taxation, is the core of the proposed plan.
The other plan is to get control of the situation using the unique powers of government to correct an industry that has spun out of control, is literally crushing the economy as a whole, and that has generally become an abomination.
Even though all reputable countries have permanently chosen the latter, it is not on the table in the US. So really there is only one proposed US plan.
But since the US plan is such a bad plan, there is a whopper of a dog and pony show going on to fool a whole lot of people.
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teddy August 18th, 2009 4:07 pm
correct.
y0u mentioned "new taxation" that is EXACTLY what it is.
Americans to be TAXED on BEHALF of the Corporations.
through high prices, high and ever-rising premiums, etc. etc. etc.
and CAPTIVE forever as "tax payers" TO the corporations.
I've been saying this for so many years:
Americans are misled when they think they are having "tax cuts" - but in reality - it APPEARS somewhere ELSE in far larger amounts:
high prices, high premiums, less take-home pay, "contributions" in the employment based health care, being tied to work slavishly to "keep insurance", having lower disposable income, tightening their belts , lower wages, etc...
these are all "hidden taxes".
except that they are given up TO the corporations.
in effect. by becoming convinced and intimidated into believing that "government tax" is bad - Americans have simply allowed themselves to have even LARGER taxes TRANSFERRED from their pockets to the coffers of corporations.
They've been intimidated AWAY from "the socialist programs that require taxes" by the government - and HERDED into paying TAXES to private entities - corporations in far, far larger ways and more damaging ways.
In short - it is outright theft by corporations through hidden taxation.
Exactly, and very well described. The power of taxation is being shifted from the public to the private sectors! And the stupid right wingers are of course completely oblivious to this, laugh out loud.
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