by Rich Dana
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
On June 28, 2012, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more popularly known as “Obamacare”. The bill has been lauded by supporters and pilloried by detractors, but the majority of Americans don’t really understand what the new health care law does. The 974 page monument to government mediocrity is not a clear and decisive overhaul of the wretched and corrupt American “health care system”, but rather it represents what remains when government bureaucrats leave behind any noble ideals and principals in favor of temporary political mojo. We are left to hope that the few crumbs that fall from the master’s table will ease our healthcare burden.
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The bill does not provide for universal healthcare. It does not provide socialized medicine, OR conversely, a true free market system. It combines the worst of both worlds, creating a corporate socialist approach in which the same companies that have been ripping off patients for decades get even more business. It mandates universal participation in a horribly sick system.
Recently, my wife had an insurance claim rejected because her “pain” was found to be a pre-existing condition, according to the code number it was submitted under. Yes, ladies and gents, that is what it has come to. “I’m sorry, but we will not pay to treat your pain, because you have had pain before.” I shit you not. Do I hope that Obamacare will bring relief for those of us with so-called “pre-existing” conditions? Of course. Is it the first step to universal health care? Doubtful. There is just too much elite money at stake. Controlling the health care of workers is too big of a stick to give up.
Society is getting sicker, and It’s projecting its illness on the people. Cancerous unchecked economic growth is not only tolerated, but encouraged. Corporate persons are now societies imaginary friends, like giant, sociopathic talking white rabbits that communicate with the government, but remain invisible to the rest of us.
