When Mitch McConnell asserts that the Affordable Health Care Act (Obamacare) is “the single worst piece of legislation” in McConnell’s lifetime, he’s right.
After all, it destroyed Big Business and Big Banking and, worst of all — it decimated the handful of private health-care insurance companies.
Remember how the health insurance industry used to rake in huge profits by denying benefits to sick and dying people rather than coming through for them?
Those once-profitable private heath-insurance companies are now on life support, drowning in red ink. As you can see from this meme below — which I checked out and found to be accurate, by the way (anybody can make up facts and figures and put them in a meme that looks authoritative) — it’s a wonder that the CEO’s of the health industry behemoths can feed their families, assuming that they can!
Then again, my guess is that private enterprise’s insurance industry might just suffer through the “socialist” insurance reform law, despite Sen. McConnell’s best efforts to kill and bury Obamacare rather than work with the President and Democrats to refine the legislation.
After all, the President from the start has said that the legislation — like all major legislation ever passed — has some bad and ugly along with all the good, and there is plenty good about Obamacare that most Americans want.
Meanwhile, people in states where governors have refused to accept federal Medicaid dollars have no coverage for terminal diseases or life-threatening illness and injury.
An untold number of those sick and injured Americans who were left without federally subsidized insurance have died as a direct result of those governors’ political games.
That’s not just a sad political fact.
That’s a sad moral commentary on the state of the American union.
Oh well, those stubborn, Obamacare-hating governors* and lawmakers in D.C. are living large and, God bless em, look to be plenty healthy and are well covered if their good health takes a terribly sick turn.
We can only hope that the struggling insurance companies and their CEO’s survive.
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* Meanwhile, residents of states where Republican governors have refused to expand the Medicaid program are still paying taxes to support it — without getting the extra benefits that potentially save lives.
The extra federal money spent on Medicaid goes directly to local health care providers, such as hospitals or physicians, and helps a state’s economy by creating jobs from the new money flowing in. That’s why states are eager to get federal military contracts.
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