Today? "You can KEEP your insurance, PERIOD." Tomorrow? "You can KEEP your DOCTOR, PERIOD." [View all]

[cherokeeprogressive]

This whole mess hasn't even begun to play out yet. President Obama made TWO prescient promises... promises he knew he couldn't/wouldn't/didn't plan to keep.

We're debating the first as if it's the end of the fucking world. It ain't. It's a lie which will be a mountain that could have been a molehill had those in charge of the message decided early on to be more transparent. Would that it could. I can only hope that the last living person on Earth chisels that into a rock before she dies...

"Would that it could."

Come January, MILLIONS of people are going to want to go see "THEIR" Doctor, now that their plan has changed... now that their plan entitles them to so much more than they paid for before...

What are they going to say when they find out that DR. SMITH doesn't participate in their plan? The DOCTOR they've seen for DECADES doesn't participate, and might as well now be as far from them as France?

New debacle.

What's the short-term answer for THIS one? January to November is a LONG time... and NOVEMBER is when the MID-TERM Elections happen.

We're spending all our waking hours arguing about insurance WHICH ISN'T HEALTH CARE and in less than 47 DAYS everyone's going to start scheduling appointments...

47 Days.