I was going to write the other day about how all the cheers about how the health care bill finially passed had less to do with health care itself, but the fact that Obama was the one that did it. As I mentioned in a previous post, polling data was used constantly to make the point that America wanted change via Obama. Most polls today are showing that most Americans either do not like this bill, or just are not liking Obama’s leadership (link 2). But when you listen to folks in either in the media, blogs or even Facebook, those polls (which they quoted on the regular during the Presidential campaign) mean NOTHING to them now.
However, this particular poll I believes gets to the heart of this entire health care debate.
It’s about politics, not policy.
Poll: Most Say Health Care Fight About Politics, Not Policy (CBS)
The cheerleaders of this “victory” could care less that government already does a piss poor job at providing health care for our nation’s poor (link 1, link 2). The could care less that the reported number of “uninsured Americans” continues to change (In 2008, it was 46 million Americans. Today, 32 million). If 14 million Americans have been insured miraculously have been able to get insurance in less than 2 years without Obamacare, surely we have been doing something right. They could care less about the current shortage of doctors that we have in this country (link 1, link 2). They could care less if the bill even addresses this issue. Nope. None of that matters.
Obama is Black and Obama was the one who got it passed when other Presidents couldn’t. Whoomp! There it is.
While Da’ Fan Base is now busy listening and watching anybody who has anything critical to say about Obama and this health care bill, apparently they are okay with this latest revelation.
“The health care reform bill signed into law by President Barack Obama Tuesday requires members of Congress and their office staffs to buy insurance through the state-run exchanges it creates – but it may exempt staffers who work for congressional committees or for party leaders in the House and Senate.
Staffers and members on both sides of the aisle call it an ‘inequity’ and an ‘outrage’ – a loophole that exempts the staffers most involved in writing and passing the bill from one of its key requirements.
The bill requires ‘congressional staff’ to buy insurance from the exchanges – with a stipend from the Office of Personnel Management But page 158 of the bill defines ‘congressional staff’ narrowly, as ‘employees employed by the official office of a member of congress, whether in the district office or in Washington.”
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The whole thing reminds me of yet another jumbo international benefit concert. While we are busy celebrating the moment, little do we realize that we are enabling the beast (government and certain strata of the medical industry) that has put us here in the first place.
But it’s a historic moment. Rock on!
Enjoy Your Historical Moment. We’re Excluding Ourselves
by Duane on March 24th, 2010 at 10:39 amI was going to write the other day about how all the cheers about how the health care bill finially passed had less to do with health care itself, but the fact that Obama was the one that did it. As I mentioned in a previous post, polling data was used constantly to make the point that America wanted change via Obama. Most polls today are showing that most Americans either do not like this bill, or just are not liking Obama’s leadership (link 2). But when you listen to folks in either in the media, blogs or even Facebook, those polls (which they quoted on the regular during the Presidential campaign) mean NOTHING to them now.
However, this particular poll I believes gets to the heart of this entire health care debate.
It’s about politics, not policy.
Poll: Most Say Health Care Fight About Politics, Not Policy (CBS)
The cheerleaders of this “victory” could care less that government already does a piss poor job at providing health care for our nation’s poor (link 1, link 2). The could care less that the reported number of “uninsured Americans” continues to change (In 2008, it was 46 million Americans. Today, 32 million). If 14 million Americans have been insured miraculously have been able to get insurance in less than 2 years without Obamacare, surely we have been doing something right. They could care less about the current shortage of doctors that we have in this country (link 1, link 2). They could care less if the bill even addresses this issue. Nope. None of that matters.
Obama is Black and Obama was the one who got it passed when other Presidents couldn’t. Whoomp! There it is.
While Da’ Fan Base is now busy listening and watching anybody who has anything critical to say about Obama and this health care bill, apparently they are okay with this latest revelation.
(more…)
The whole thing reminds me of yet another jumbo international benefit concert. While we are busy celebrating the moment, little do we realize that we are enabling the beast (government and certain strata of the medical industry) that has put us here in the first place.
But it’s a historic moment. Rock on!