[Peace-discuss] Obamacare Wins, We Lose

[E. Wayne Johnson]

I think Stauber drove in the nail with number 4.

Mitt Zombie jumped on this immediately and asked for donations ($10) to 
his campaign...

    Today, the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare. But regardless of what
    the Court said about the constitutionality of the law, Obamacare is
    bad medicine, it is bad policy, and when I’m President, the bad news
    of Obamacare will be over...

    ...On Day One, I will work to repeal Obamacare to stop the
    government’s takeover of our health care and intrusion in our lives.
    I will push for real reform to our health care system that focuses
    on helping patients and protecting taxpayers.

    We cannot afford Barack Obama’s on-the-job learning, Big Government
    proposals, and irresponsible spending. Our basic liberties are at
    stake — and I will fight to restore our freedoms, renew the respect
    for our Constitution, and halt the government takeover of health care.

    This November it’s all on the line. The stakes couldn’t be higher.

As if Romney wants to change it for the better and as if it is in his 
power to do so.

No one should believe Mittens but he definitely gets a big boost from 
this dreaded scotching of the system.


On 6/29/2012 8:40 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> 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 De//mocracy in 1993, retiring in 2009.  He lives 
> in Madison, Wisconsin./
>
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