good. it's far from perfect, but it's better than going down the path of giving insurance companies ever more profit. Now they must spent 80% of their premiums on actual health care, not CEO bonuses
Eh, okay.
1. Healthcare companies donated more money to Obama in 2008 ($21,000,000) than anyone else (McCain received ~$8,000,000)
2. Financial/Insurance companies donated more money to Obama in 2008 (~$42 Million) than any other candidate.
Obviously, they had a vested interest in Obama winning. They were very much for ObamaCare but very much against the public option, which would most likely put them out of business. Without a public option, they've essentially got the Government subsidizing them and forcing new customers to sign up at gun point.
Well, he has something similar to a public option built in. The Office of Personnel Management is required to "sponsor" two separate plans that will be government supported and exempt from certain restrictions of private companies.
Because we're subsidizing it, private companies won't be able to compete for long, and the State will have a monopoly over health insurance.
That's going to mess a lot of shit up, starting with long wait times/shitty service and eventually ending up at healthcare rationing. The State will decide who gets treatment and when. And knowing what I know about their agenda, I don't think it'll be too long before the entire healthcare industry is nationalized.
In short, shitty, State run healthcare that we're forced to pay for under threat of coercion.
But it's not about healthcare. That's how it's packaged up for public consumption.
What pisses me off is the SCOTUS just gave the Feds the right to force private products on us under the veil of taxation. That opens up possibilities I don't even want to think about, mandatory state run media, government rations, whatever. They now have a license to force us to "buy" anything they want to sell. The SC left that gate wide open.
You know who's going to police the new system? The IRS. $500 Million and ~1k new agents policing your healthcare. If you think the IRS is a pain now just wait, I don't care how solid your books are. This isn't a popular mandate. They're going to relentlessly audit for non-compliance.
This ruling destroyed more rights in one day than even the NDAA or Patriot Act. It shows there's no limit to their power, they're not afraid to use it and the Constitution no longer applies.
Healthcare is 17% of our GDP. They want that money, they want that power over the people. The more private industries they take over, the more they can justify stealing our money.
I could be wrong, who knows, but there's no arguing that forcing this down our throats at gunpoint is a MAJOR violation of our rights. We're being stripped of privacy and the freedom to choose. And I'd bet everything I own that the State will make healthcare more costly and much less effective.
This is about expanding power and control, period. The State doesn't serve you, they exploit you. They don't protect you, they control you.
It's the same reason they're s
pending millions to get more people signed up on food stamps, they want you completely dependent on them and under their control.
Governments are evil. Name one thing good they've done for you and I'll tell you the ulterior motive behind it. They want you complacent, nothing more.
GOD FUCKING BLESS OBAMA AND THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT!
You're entitled to your opinion.
You know in this country that you have a 30% chance of ending up in prison as a black male?
I was doing some research today and saw the DOJ admits that 12% of inmates are actually or factually INNOCENT. That's over 200k innocent men in our prisons, more than the guilty population of Europe, Italy and France combined.
And minorities are targeted. Mainly through the B.S. war on drugs that's really just a State front to incarcerate as many people as possible (big money) and eliminate competition. There's a lot of money in running guns and importing drugs.
Obama is a glorified gangster. His entire job is figuring out how to steal, extort, lie and murder people. He has a kill list. He's involved in perpetual war. He oversees the largest prison population in the world and systematically destroys the rights of his own citizens to exert greater control over them.
If that's a guy you want to look up to that's your call. I personally reject everything Obama and the State stand for - and I'll write long ass posts telling the world how evil and corrupt the system is every chance I get. :stonedsmilie: