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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBarack Obama - minutes ago - Health care has always been about something bigger than politics
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Health care has always been about something bigger than politics: it's about the character of our country.
https://www.facebook.com/barackobama/posts/10154996557026749
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Barack Obama - minutes ago - Health care has always been about something bigger than politics (Original Post)
L. Coyote
Jun 2017
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madaboutharry
(40,220 posts)1. We are now a nation of very poor character.
irisblue
(33,023 posts)2. Retweeted. I miss The President, The Real One.
CousinIT
(9,257 posts)3. What "I don't want to pay for someone else's healthcare" really means
. . .Yet, the conservatives who decry paying for others in a public system, have no problem paying for others, thru monthly premiums, in a private system. Which raises the obvious question: WHY?
Well, for some, perhaps it's just stupidity.
For others, perhaps it's the effect of propaganda, which has led them to associate anything "public" with inefficient and bad, and anything private with virtuous. Okay.
But for others, I think it is hard to escape the conclusion that they don't mind subsidizing others via private insurance, because they assume (rightly or wrongly) that those "others" are likely to be like themselves: presumably productive, hard working, contributors to society, who are merely experiencing a tough time, medically, and thus "deserve" care, while they assume that those covered in a public plan would likely be unlike themselves: more likely poor (and therefore, of course, to blame for their own poverty), more likely of color, more likely to be non-English speaking, etc. and thus less deserving of care.
As with any other thing provided "publicly," too often we associate public health care with the racial and class "other." Think, for instance, public housing, public transportation, even public education (increasingly) and what is the image that comes to mind of the folks availing themselves of these things? To ask the question is to answer it.
So when conservatives insist their opposition to public health care is only about a philosophical/ideological debate about self-sufficiency/having to pay for other people, etc., they are, frankly lying. It is about their desire to only subsidize the people they want to subsidize. The people who lives have real value to them. And to hell with the rest.
Well, for some, perhaps it's just stupidity.
For others, perhaps it's the effect of propaganda, which has led them to associate anything "public" with inefficient and bad, and anything private with virtuous. Okay.
But for others, I think it is hard to escape the conclusion that they don't mind subsidizing others via private insurance, because they assume (rightly or wrongly) that those "others" are likely to be like themselves: presumably productive, hard working, contributors to society, who are merely experiencing a tough time, medically, and thus "deserve" care, while they assume that those covered in a public plan would likely be unlike themselves: more likely poor (and therefore, of course, to blame for their own poverty), more likely of color, more likely to be non-English speaking, etc. and thus less deserving of care.
As with any other thing provided "publicly," too often we associate public health care with the racial and class "other." Think, for instance, public housing, public transportation, even public education (increasingly) and what is the image that comes to mind of the folks availing themselves of these things? To ask the question is to answer it.
So when conservatives insist their opposition to public health care is only about a philosophical/ideological debate about self-sufficiency/having to pay for other people, etc., they are, frankly lying. It is about their desire to only subsidize the people they want to subsidize. The people who lives have real value to them. And to hell with the rest.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/7/790759/-
demmiblue
(36,885 posts)4. Thank you for speaking up, President Obama.
State the Obvious
(842 posts)5. So true. My guess is....
....that Trump will attempt to steal that quote and try to take credit for it. After all......plagiarizing is what they do!
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)6. NARAL
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)7. I miss having a real POTUS