tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post7798284054215497554..comments2024-03-22T02:15:56.280-07:00Comments on Jersey Jazzman: Teaching In the Age of TrumpDukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535645107179796099noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-88939610644333498482017-01-09T07:44:57.063-08:002017-01-09T07:44:57.063-08:00Great comments by Jersey Jazzman with which I can ...Great comments by Jersey Jazzman with which I can relate. Every other wealthy industrialized democracy has some form or version of universal health care, EXCEPT THE USA. In those other democracies, everyone is covered, no on goes bankrupt from medical costs and the drugs are as much as 50% cheaper than in the US. It's 2017 and we still do not have true universal healthcare in the richest economy on earth. Truman tried to enact a national healthcare system in the late 1940s but was defeated by the GOP and the AMA. It took a bully and monster like LBJ to get Medicare and Medicaid passed over the objections of the GOP, the AMA and guys like Ronald Reagan. Reagan falsely claimed that Medicare would lead to socialism and a loss of freedom. He LIED for his paymasters. The ACA was the best we could come up with given the powerful insurance companies' lobbying and the GOP; it's far from perfect but it did cover 20 million more people and is especially beneficial to the poorer Americans. Obama is no LBJ and did not have the guts to go with single payer or at least the public option. Now with Trump, we will go full throttle in the reverse direction. It will be worse, much worse.Giuseppehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03418801372998968620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-23778728480240284462017-01-09T05:31:28.959-08:002017-01-09T05:31:28.959-08:00Obamacare is NOT "universal healthcare,"...Obamacare is NOT "universal healthcare," not by a longshot. It's not even a step in that direction. It still divides people into those worthy and those unworthy of affordable health insurance (not healthcare). No system that requires any "qualification" beyond being an alive person is universal. There are a ZILLION qualfications for Obamacare. That young man was LYING LIKE HELL to that woman and she knew it. Trump is not the answer, but neither was Hillary. But seriously, it's out-and-out lies like this that did the Democrats in. Obamacare is not worth defending. It took my affordable insurance AWAY. I'm in a group that got completely screwed by it--older self-employed people in the expensive states who make just over the subsidy limit. I used to have a plan that cost $300/month, now I'm supposed to pay $1,200/month, which of course I can't, so for the first time in my life, in my mid-50s, I'm uninsured, and it's all because of Obamacare. Democrats gotta stop defending this program because it's deeply immoral to create healthcare winners and losers. Stop telling us we've got universal affordable health care now when we know darn well we don't. <br /><br />http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/301988-affordable-care-act-imploding-and-beyond-repair<br />Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03892997111551835451noreply@blogger.com