Health and Sanity category archive
The Missing Piece (Updated) 0
The reason Republicans are so determined to repeal the ACA, which they chose to dub “Obamacare,” is quite simple.
They cannot stand that the Black Guy did it.
Via Job’s Anger.
Addendum, Later That Same Day:
Josh Marshall comments on ACA repeal passing the House (emphasis added):
That’s the Iron Law: the ‘GOP moderates’ will always cave.
More at the link.
Afterthought:
In order to have a “crisis of conscience,” you must first have a conscience.
The Art of the Con, Free Market Fantasies Dept. 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Kristin Luker skewers some of the “free market” fantasies with which Republican dress up their attempts to deny health care to the citizenry.
Here’s the list; follow the link for the discussion (emphasis in the original):
- Fantasy No. 1
is the idea that people shop for health insurance just as they shop for peas.
- Fantasy No. 2 is the idea that the patient is the consumer. No. The physician is the consumer . . . .
- Fantasy No. 3 is that health care is an individual matter. This is nonsense — all health is public health.
GOP Health Care: “Don’t Get Sick. If You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly” 0
Dick Polman takes a look at Trump Care v. 2.0. A snippet (italics in the original):
His answer:
“Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I just watched another network than yours, and they were saying ‘Pre-existing is not covered.’ Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it. I said, ‘Has to be.’….They say we don’t cover pre-existing conditions. We cover it beautifully.”
I know this might shock you, but the truth is precisely the opposite of what Trump said.
Still in Search of That Elusive Buck 0
Daniel Ruth considers Donald Trump’s reaction the the failure of Paul Ryan’s “they laughing call it a health care” bill. A snippet:
Despite all the finger-pointing and Trump’s efforts to blame the United Nations, the Brownies, the Peace Corps, Saturday Night Live and Ted Cruz’s father for the failure of the Think of Dead as Just a Chronic Condition Act, the measure was supported by only 17 percent of the public. And that was probably the membership at the Mar-a-Lago Golf Club.
Meanwhile, TPM reports that Republicans are considering trying again, apparently because being against the Affordable Care Act seems to be all they know how to do.
Afterthought:
We have traded the “rule of law” for the “rule of flaw.”
A Diet of Worms 0
Warning: Language.
Projecting the Loss 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Stanton Peel returns with another post about Donald Trump; Peele argues that Trump’s reaction to Republicans’ pulling their “they laughingly call it a health care” bill is a classic illustration of psychological projection.
Here’s a bit:
Um, Mr. President? No votes were taken with Democrats present.
Psychological projection is a syndrome in which humans defend themselves against their own unconscious impulses or qualities by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others.
Donald Trump’s speech on the defeat of the health care bill he supported was a model of projection.
Do please read the rest.
Ryan’s Derp (Updated, Kicked to the Top) 0
It’s not the war.
Afterthought:
Thanks, Obama.
Addendum:
SeattlePI previews the next strategy to make America sick again.
The Art of the Con 0
TPM explores the propaganda Republicans are using to promote their “they laughingly call it health care” bill. Here’s one; follow the link for the rest (emphasis in the original).
However, the CBO last week made clear — backing up what multiple other analyses have said — that Obamacare is not in or heading towards a death spiral.
“In CBO and JCT’s assessment, however, the nongroup market would probably be stable in most areas under either current law or the legislation,” the CBO said.
Ryan’s Derp, Return of Beyond the Palin Dept. 0
David Ruth explains that fantastical things sometimes come to pass.
This is probably the inevitable result when laws are cooked up by a speaker of the House of Representatives who has treated the post as if he is president of the Ayn Rand Society.
More at the link.
