Been Away from Here. Got Apathetic. Then Got Pissed. Had to come back and vent.

[Armstead]

156. Alowing a few more people to be considered poor enlough for medicaid is not a solution

The problem i had and still have with Health Care "reform" is that it took a rotten, greed-based system of private insurance and the greedier aspects of corporate healthcare and enshrined them. And made them worse by forcing people to buy overpriced crappy coverage from private insurers....It softened a few edges with expanded medicaid for those "fortunate" enough to be considered poor, while leaving mlost of the struggling working and middle class slaves to the private for-profity insurance companies.

That moved it in the wrong direction. It may be slighltly better than it was, but it is still screwing most people -- and many businesses -- while corporate insurers get to continue to rake it in.

Mandates for private insurance was originally a Republican idea, before they became so batshit crazy that they even conmsideed that to be too radical for them. It aint a progressive idea, such as a public option would have been.

And that's the problem these days. People know we need more fundamental reform, but instead we are just getting a few crumbs tossed that perpetuate the worst aspects of the system.

Once again THIS IS NOT JUST ABOUT OBAMA. He is a symptom, and until people stop seeing politics as a form of American Idol, the shit will continue. Obama needs to have his feet held to the fire, as do all Democratic politicians.