Underinsured ACA Enrollees Strain Community Health Centers

[woo me with science]

20. Oh, those profit statements!

They managed to MANDATE that *every single American* purchase an outrageously overpriced corporate product for their *entire lives.*

Think about that. What a coup for the one percent. This sort of mandate to buy is unprecedented.

The mandate was the goal all along, and it was planned to profit the insurance companies, period. They knew from the outset that it was nothing that people on either side really wanted, and that is why it was never presented honestly and why we got the Kabuki theater of the negotiations. Not only did our Democratic president make a backroom deal, he lied to the American people and claimed that he had never campaigned on a public option after the deal had been made, just as he had lied to Americans that he would not support a mandate.

It was a brilliant, bipartisan scam.

There is no way in hell that they ever would have been able to sell what was passed to the American people had they gone about it honestly. Not to Democrats, because of opposition to the corporate model, and not to Republicans, because of the government mandate. But fire up one side with the promise of universal coverage, and fire up the other side with the threat of government health care, and you can pass a "COMPROMISE" that nobody wants....except the corporations that will rake in the dough. The mandate on the corporate product was the goal all along.

I remember, just before this passed, watching some pundit on TV discussing polls showing that Democrats hated the plan, and Republicans hated the plan. His conclusion was (I am not making this up), "This must mean they are charting a good middle course."

What a brilliant con. These corporatists, they are very slick at what they do.