Tulio writes:
Even Robert Lindsay has admitted that he thinks there are racial factors behind white American’s reluctance to embrace the ACA or single-payer healthcare.
I haven’t given it much thought. But the general idea is that White Americans will be forced to give up their privileged health care (good insurance generally offered via employment which I don’t think is all that great anyway) and be pushed into a “socialist” system of government health care where all care is rationed equally and everyone gets the same mediocre care. In other words, in order to insure all the shiftless niggers and other minorities, Whites have to redistribute their privileged health care downwards to the Blacks who will get improved health care. Basically the Whites fear that their new health care will be inferior.
Whether it will or not is hard to say. If employers start dropping people, you will have to go buy your own care. But the ACA requires most employers to cover their employees.
Really all the fuss about the ACA is simply insane. It is pitched as socialized medicine but it is nothing of the sort. It is simply insurance reform. The entire system will still be mostly private sector and market based, it’s just that the evil insurance corporations will have to cover people better and give people better insurance. There will also be a Medicaid expansion, but I am not sure if they are screaming about that. Many Republican governors are turning down federal Medicaid expansion, but I am not sure why. The federal government has come in and said we are going to insure a lot of the poor people in your state, and the Republicans told them to get lost? How does that make sense in any rational universe?
This is the exact same program that the conservative idiots put forward as the best health care program in 1992. Bob Dole via the Heritage Foundation offered what is simply Obamacare as an alternative to Hillarycare. Now here it is 11 years later and they are going batshit insane about their own old plan.
None of it makes the slightest bit of sense. The only way that the opposition to the ACA makes any sense at all is if you simply conclude that the Republicans are a party of crazed nutcases.
