Health Care Injustice and an Implication of it

The obvious lack of justice in the health care system and the fact that that lack of justice is virtually unique among reputable countries strongly suggests and perhaps proves by itself that the actual US justice system is unjust and bogus.

Likely Developments If the Fake Health Reform Passes

I recently spent several hours reading numerous Daily Kos diaries, (which I never did before, by the way). The diaries often attract a lot of comments.

What I discovered is that if the mandate passes but the public option does not pass, there will be widespread and I do mean widespread civil disobedience, and the Democrats will be severely hammered in the next several elections. Furthermore, many believe that the Republicans are intentionally trying to maneuver the gullible Democrats into ending up with the mandate but no or a weak public option, because they know that they will be able to successfully run against the Democrats for many years to come when the public rebels against the ultra regressive taxation that a mandate without an extremely strong public option is.

Whether it is possible for even a strong public to reduce and keep in check health insurance prices is dubious. It's not clear that Americans in their present state could make a "strong public option" work even if they set out to do it.

It is likely that even a "strong public option" would be a complete flop and would eventually result in heavy civil disobedience and heavy political losses for the Democrats. But you know how the Republicans are: they always want and frequently get the whole loaf. In this case, they are holding out for no public option or a fake, weak public option, while allowing the mandate to slink through, probably through the backdoor. This combination will allow the Republicans to optimize their power to clean up against the Democrats in the elections down the road.

Back in the real world of the American peasantry, there were actually a large number of posters at Daily Kos guaranteeing right here and now that unless there was a true and strong public option, they would refuse to buy grossly overpriced private health insurance from corporations with obscene profits.

Rather, they would continue to in effect be self insured. Interestingly and importantly, several pointed out that they have, in recent years and in the real world, financially come out ahead by paying for health care needs out of pocket rather than paying all the premiums, deductibles, co-pays, uncovered invoiced items, disallowed invoiced items, and other fees associated with a private insurance policy.

Although it was nice to see that Daily Kos folks have become aware of how they are being played in the health care debate, I like Common Dreams better because people there are not as liable to being fooled and played in the first place.

Health care for all and with costs under control is the only way life can be completely worth living. Without it, the country is really nothing more than a hell hole where people die early deaths.

A RESPONSE:

SayBlade September 2nd, 2009 5:04 pm
Yes! There's no such thing as the "free market." Just like there's no Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy or Flying Spaghetti Monster.

There is, however, a god. Apparently it is worshiped by profits and shareholders across the financial universe.

I once thought I saw the flying spaghetti monster at an Italian restaurant, but then I realized I had drunk twice as much wine as usual.

[The above is in response to this article.]

Growing Third World Tendencies in and the Ultimate Destiny of the USA

On the one hand the US is indisputably a country with numerous and growing third world tendencies. There are many, many millions (at the bottom of the economic ladder) in the US who for all practical purposes have the same well being and prospects as they would have if they were living in an above average third world country, such as Jamaica or Kazakhstan.

Meanwhile, on the other hand, the US Government continues to, in high and mighty fashion, dictate economic and security doctrine and parameters to the world. While not all of this doctrine is followed in every country, some of the "highest levels" of the doctrine is slavishly followed in almost every relevant country.

To the rest of the World, the US is like a supersized and on steroids version of the 1980's Soviet Union: failing badly but armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons. But unlike the Soviet Union, the US, based on its legacy prosperity and power, is the linchpin of the globalized economic and security system. Like the banks within the US that were bailed out, the US is "too big to fail" within that globalized system.

But “too big to fail” only goes so far. When the US system finally completely collapses sometime within the next 120 years, the relevant question becomes who will bail out the US? Who will come to the rescue when, among other things, the dollar collapses, when the US can't float more debt, when even Chinese and other Asian goods become too expensive for Americans, and when it becomes permanently impossible to add a substantial number of jobs to (an increasingly inadequate number of) jobs?

Well, actually, when that day comes, the US will probably be bailed out by some combination of the IMF, World Bank, and the treasuries of other countries, which will be by then clearly and by a wide margin much wealthier countries. All third world countries are “bailed out” to one extent or another from time to time.

But obviously these kinds of bail outs are merely triage, don’t do much to solve the root problems, and don’t do much to boost the country out of third world status. Basically, the bailouts of third world countries merely keep such countries from going up in flames and keep the population of them from starving en masse.

But what will the terms of the US bailout be? Well, they most definitely will not be easy or favorable terms, because for one thing, there is so much to bail out. I mean, the country is not exactly small in size, geographically or population wise.

Trust me; we don't want to wait until the day the terms of the bailout are announced. It's time to abandon the corpse of a system now and proceed as free men and women who don't need to be bailed out from economic failure and debt slavery. It’s becoming more and more overdue that we move beyond talking about how to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.

That’s all the 2009 “health care debate” in the US is: it’s nothing more and nothing less than a discussion about how to rearrange those Titanic deck chairs. The real health care debate is not being held. The real one is a discussion about how to remove profit, obscene salaries, and other unsustainable and obscene costs from the sinking health care system, which is taking the whole economy down with it.

[The above is in response to this article.]