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In reply to the discussion: I hope the Supreme Court kills the Affordable Health Care Act. ALL of it. [View all]TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)They "expand" coverage and shrink care.
The death will come from self death panels of a person or a family and from pushing already struggling people to the extreme.
You will have set a precedent that the government may dictate our after tax money as they see fit and can even have you buy at the whim and selection of your employer and broadly compel commerce.
You will diminish the quality care of all but the wealthy and most fortunate while us in steerage are stuck paying our tithe to the church of Mammon for some bullshit coverage that we can no way afford to use and worse by the year with the absurd tax on benefits in a vice with the upward pressure of medical inflation. Over time we all get junk and shit care.
You create a too big to fail out of a criminal cartel and set them loose on a treasury with ever shrinking revenue, that will have adverse effects too.
A few pay to play features to be the sugar to make way more than a spoonful of bad law go down that is damn likely to make bad worse overall even accounting for "curbing the worst excesses" of the wicked cartel.
We are about chest deep in the Medicare part D effect here and I totally understand but it does no good to forget the entropy being taken on. People get a feature (one they pay for) and the outcome justifies all the comes with it.
Maybe sometimes it even is worth it at any price but the privileged frame of reference driven sanctimony about saving lives from some pitching fire and brimstone is hollow because folks pretend they don't cause any deaths and/or spread pain if their agenda is fulfilled.