[Peace-discuss] Obamacare Wins, We Lose

[C. G. Estabrook]

Roberts & Dems Deliver a Grand Slam for the Right
Obamacare Wins, We Lose
by JOHN STAUBER
It was a brilliant move by far Right (but oh so likable) Chief Justice  
Roberts to side with the Dem-appointed Justices and uphold ObamaCare.   
After all, this is a massive victory for corporate power, forcing  
citizens to buy an expensive insurance product that won’t serve our  
needs very well but will profit industry, in lieu of receiving real  
health care.

Obamacare and its corporate mandate were born on the Right (as in  
Heritage Foundation) as a way to destroy the political prospects of  
any single payer system that would cover all Americans with a tax- 
funded system of guaranteed medical care.  This is the way all other  
industrial societies protect the right to health care, by taking it  
out of the hands of the giant insurance industry.  The right to health  
care is like the right to not be enslaved – there are  no half  
measures, and the insurance industry is the slave master.

Roberts may have brilliantly scored a “4-fer” victory:

1.) He now has an interesting historic legacy.

2.) He and his Dem-appointed colleagues have given huge new powers to  
corporations, and further reduced the rights of citizens.

3.) Any real reform — call it single payer, or medicare for all — is  
doomed in bipartisan fashion.  The “pragmatists” who are for Obamacare  
are duped if they think it is going to be expanded to single payer.   
 From this point on, it will only be picked over and further  
reinvented to empower the insurance and drug industries.

4.) Roberts siding with Dems has probably bounced Obama right out of  
office.  The public overwhelmingly hates Obamacare, and this pours gas  
on the electoral fire.

No wonder Roberts delivered the goods!  What a great Right Wing  
Justice he is.

John Stauber is an independent author and activist.  He founded the  
Center for Media and Democracy in 1993, retiring in 2009.  He lives in  
Madison, Wisconsin.
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