Real Noid
Real Noid
Jul 23, 2017 · 2 min read

The American dream is NOT dead. But it will take a long time to recover. AND, it will never completely recover.

Universal healthcare is not a right and not a privilege. The two extremes are never the only choices. As the writer indicates, affordable healthcare it is a good, a universal good for everyone. There are many such “universal goods” as the writer also indicates. Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker also tried in 2016 to tell everyone the effects of having an authoritarian “blizzard of lies” candidate like Trump now President as the head of an authoritarian Republican Party now in complete control.

The healthcare system in America has doctors in walk-in clinics incentivized in ordering as many tests as they can get away with whether needed or not. Designed to screw private insurance. Subsidizing private insurance and insurance CEO salaries to make healthcare affordable is itself a joke but it was the only politically viable option left for Obama in 2010. Rep. Giffords had bullseye over her picture and was demonized just for having the nerve to vote yes on ACA in a conservative state like Arizona. I don’t have to mention what happened as a result of what is typical of Zoolander Republican and NRA fanatics who said at the time, “if ya can’t stand the “heat”…”

Hospital administration goes crazy jacking up the price of healthcare and are privileged kingdoms and fiefdoms in themselves.

The arguments for free or affordable healthcare is NEVER simple and there will always be cheating and graft…

….but if you want to sanction thievery just make it possible for giant psychiatric and drug rehab corporations to be able to charge for inflated treatments and give incentives for patients to report how well they’re doing to keep whistleblowers and journalists under control. The other side of pain killer and heroine drug habits being subsidized is not “nice” and simple.

We have a Republican governor in Florida named Rick Scott whose corporation held the record for insurance fraud fines (hey, it wasn’t him “personally” just like Trump’s many bankruptcies weren’t his “personally”). Rick Scott’s state presently leads the nation in every kind of insurance fraud imaginable. The recent NYT coverage of what goes on in fraud based insurance drug treatment was long overdue and is just one reason why that state voted for Trump.

If I lived in some of the cities affected, as bad as it was and still is, I would never under any circumstances have voted for a Russian backed Soprano mafioso like Trump. That said, arguments on either side have to be cognizant of what happens to entire communities when corporate types and the ones on the bottom who enable them are able to profit from scamming everyone while causing chaos in entire communities. When you do that you get an opposite reaction. Like the one we have in control of Casablanca (WH) DC and in control of most states.

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