Osama Bin laden allegedly killed 2,977 Americans on 9/11 and we've spent trillions of dollars, passed the patriot act, fought 2 wars and still today spend blood and treasure to try and defeat these terrorists. No imagine an organization killing that many Americans every month for the last 14 years and ask yourself how much blood and treasure we would spend to defeat them. If a groups actions had killed over 500,000 Americans since 9/11 would you do what you could to stop them, wouldn't the media cover this story 24/7 and would we pass legislation to try and stop these "terrorists". Of course but instead we are rewarding them with subsidies, less regulation and fighting to allow them to kill even more Americans.
Of course the group I'm talking about are the for profit insurance companies whose decisions aid in the death of over 40,000 Americans each year but it's not terrorism it's capitalism. Capitalism at it's purest form where the strong survive and the less fortunate are left to wither and die but if it was a Muslim group we would be bombing them by now. Because the media is owned by corporations and the insurance companies lobby and own politicians they have been allowed to get away with murder for years with no accountability.
This is my main problem with "Obamacare", instead of letting for profit companies on the vine to die like we would terrorists we are rewarding them and putting more Americans lives in their hands. Like all companies their number one goal is making money and sadly it's at the expense of your and my lives.
Many of the arguments you hear from republicans about Obamacare would be more believable if we didn't already have the same issues.
"Death Panels"
Sarah Palin made these famous and while it's been proven over and over again that Obamacare doesn't include death panels that doesn't mean they don't exist. On more than one occasion insurance company employees have admitted to congress they knowing let people die because it was good for the bottom line and that it was their job and they even got rewarded if they found ways to deny life saving treatments. If you got really ill they would just cut you loose, if you forgot to dot 1 I or cross 1 T on your application that was good enough, they accepted you money and your mistake while you were healthy but when you became ill it wasn't acceptable anymore.
"Government between you and your doctor"
Obamacare forces people to buy for profit insurance so it's not a government takeover no matter how delusional or misinformed you are. Government DID get between you and your doctor but it was republicans who banned procedures like abortion or birth control even if your doctor prescribed it. If you've ever been to the hospital or god forbid had anyone seriously ill you would know that with for profit insurance treatment is out of the doctors hands all together. The insurance company decides which treatments you will and will not have and when you will be thrown out of the hospital.
"government healthcare will explode medical costs"
If you put the bias aside and look at the facts all other countries with universal healthcare bay at least 50% less than we do for health care and they cover all citizens. It lowers the cost in many ways including cost controls, it allows for caps on medicine costs and rewards doctors for healthy patients. The biggest one is that it allows people to see the doctor when they feel ill and not worry about losing everything.
In 2012 my mother went into hospital and was diagnosed with colon cancer, the surgery left her disabled, unable to work and the cancer returned. She recently told us she had a feeling a few months in advance that there was something wrong but she couldn't go to hospital because Robert (my father) was on her insurance plan and god forbid something happened he wouldn't be covered anymore and we would be left in financial trouble. Sure enough that happened anyway but I hear that story often of people choosing to ignore their symptoms because they can't afford insurance or fear they will go bankrupt if something is seriously wrong.
In America today people are choosing to let themselves die so their family doesn't go into debt or hungry not that is a "death panel". So what do you call a organization that has a hand in thousands of American deaths each year? If the're Muslim you call them terrorists, if they're making a profit out of it you call them capitalists.
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