Saving Your Own Skin

[Warpy]

1. Republicanism just plain does not work

The deductibles and copays might work had wages kept pace with the true rate of inflation, but they didn't. Working people saw their purchasing power eroded every year by inflation while wages stayed flat or even decreased as jobs were offshored and only McJobs remained.

Now the deductibles and copays don't insure that patients watch the cost of what they're getting more carefully, it means that most must forgo care completely because they simply can't afford it.

It's just another example of how everything comes down to wages and how they've been systematically depressed since the late 70s, when inflation from oil shocks was blamed on people who earned "too much" money for their labor.

If you haven't gone to the polls yet, please go. Vote them out. It doesn't matter if you live in a red state, be heard. I think some of you might be surprised on the night of Nov. 6.