RE: The System The Republicunts Think is so Great
June 14, 2014 at 7:34 pm
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2014 at 9:12 pm by Heywood.)
(June 14, 2014 at 4:46 pm)Brakeman Wrote: Obamacare is a compromise and has always been a compromise. It was the best Democrats could do to better health care over the ever present destructive influence of the repugs. Single payer universal health care is the goal of all democrats that I know. It makes no sense to add middle man insurance companies onto the payroll.
The problem with Obamacare and single payer is that they do not address the problem. Here is an analogy. Suppose Gilligan's Island only has enough food to support 5 castaways. Unfortunately there are 7 castaways. It does no good whatsoever for the 7 castaways to simply declare that everyone of them is entitled to food. Eventually 2 of them will starve to death. The solution the castaways should pursue is to make the island provide more food.
If the problem is there is not enough health care for everyone, you do not solve the problem by providing everyone with health insurance. Health insurance is not health care any more than food stamps are food. The solution is providing more health care so that there will be enough for everyone. Obamacare and single payer do not address this problem which is why they fail.
