Editorial,
The Week in Review – Analysis, Commentary, Opinion
03.25.2017
It was another off week
for the fake president. T-Rump lost a battle for one of his central campaign
promises. This is a good thing for the country, and it is a sobering look at
how T-Rump works.
Let us be clear. The Affordable
Care Act (ACA), popular known as Obamacare, is not a great healthcare system,
it is not even a good system, but it is doing more for more people than the
non-system that it replaced.
As a nation, we must move
the goal toward a “single payer,” centrally funded, universal healthcare
program, it is what the American people need, it is what we deserve, and while
it may change significant economic sectors of our country, by eliminating some
insurance markets etc…, it will be a massive boost to the economy in so many
other ways. When the burden for the cost of healthcare is spread evenly across
every strata of society, the burden of co-pays, and premiums will be removed
from individuals, and their employers, which in turn will free up significant
amount of money that will move to other places in the economy.
The people will benefit,
and the insurance moguls, those multi billionaires, they will figure out what
to do with their wealth, and they will be just fine.
T-Rump promised up and
down the campaign trail to repeal and replace Obamacare on the first day he was
in office, “immediately,” he would say. He made these promises while following
the empty rhetoric of his republican colleagues, who voted to repeal and
replace Obamacare more than fifty time since its passage, which votes they took
knowing that President Obama would never sign it into law. They were safe, ill
intentioned, cowardly votes that they backed away from just as soon as their
might be real consequences for them to face.
T-Rump jumped into the
discussion without any understanding of the ramifications of the various proposals
that were on the table. He did not care what was in the bill. He only wanted to
sign something and claim a win.
T-Rump and the
republicans, especially the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, lied to the
American people everyday in the weeks leading up to their debacle in the house.
They told us everyday
that Obamacare was unstable, imploding, exploding, despite the fact that that
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said that this was not true.
What they meant by this
was: if Obamacare was left unchanged, people would begin to lose their
coverage, premiums would continue to rise to the point that the average American
would not be able to afford their insurance.
When the CBO scored the
T-Rump, and Ryan’s plan what they found was that twenty-four million people
would lose their coverage, and premiums would skyrocket for the poor, the sick,
and the elderly.
T-Rump and Ryan were
planning to take us exactly to the place they were projecting Obamacare would
take us to in their fear-mongering and doom-saying.
The republicans had seven
years to come up with a plan to replace the affordable care act, and they came
up with nothing they could actually agree on.
They have a republican
president, and hold majorities in both houses of congress, and they could not
get their own team to agree.
Typically, T-Rump wants
to blame the democrats, even though he never invited them to the table to
negotiate.
T-Rump fails again.
Paul Ryan looked like he
was about to cry. In his heart of hearts, he wanted to pass a bill that would
deprive millions of people of their health insurance, of the security of
knowing that if they were ill, they would not lose their house, or their
savings, or their lives. He expressed real sorrow about this.
T-Rump brought nothing to
the table, thankfully, his negotiating skills are not at all what he boasted
of. If he had succeeded, the American people would have been screwed.
