Well…one of the things that has struck me lately is how stark the differences are between the right and the left and how the right has basically abandoned any idea of governing that is not related to scoring political points or pushing their crazy, regressive agenda on the US when the polls show that more than 60% of the people here don’t want to hear it anymore. How legislation used to work before the ideologues took control of the repubs was that you would look at the needs of the country, you would look at the problems of the times whether it was economic growth, unemployment, hunger or any other goal that would make the country better and then try to do something about it….and, normally when legislation was passed and after time, it was found that there needed to be changes to make it work better, both the right and left would get together to make it better…something that needs to be done for lower income middle class people in the ACA…but, with the right’s rabid fervor to kill government in any form other than the parts that would advance their social agenda, they have decided to not do their jobs so they can continue to try to score political points….with no thought to what the citizens of this country need to make their lives better. That sums up the difference…that repubs only thought is to score cheap political points and drive their ideology while the dems really do want to solve the problems of the country….geez…
Tag Archives: ACA
Another ass of a CEO blames the ACA…
Well…I am starting to get pissed with all of the incompetent CEO’s slashing benefits and then blaming it on the ACA…even though the entire act has not even taken effect…just like John Schnatter of Papa John’s who went on a bitch screed last year saying he would make sure no one in his company would work more than 30 hours so he wouldn’t have to make health insurance part of the benefit package offered…and this, even though giving all of his employees full boat health insurance would only cost the company 4 cents extra per pizza and no one would even notice…just another asshole on the right trying to make a political point by screwing his workers. Today, we have another one of these assholes that makes over 10 million dollars a year, Tim Armstrong of AOL, saying that he HAS to cut the companies 401K match since two women there had babies that needed “a million dollars in care” and claims that Obamacare has cost the company 7.1 million dollars. One thing this prick doesn’t mention is that his bad decisions in acquisitions has cost the company over 200 million dollars in the past year…so, what he is really saying is that I’m so damn dumb that I can’t even do my job, so all of you employees have to pay for it while I take my 10 million dollars and laugh all the way to the bank. This one has the analysts laughing out loud…all of them have said that there is no possible way that Obamacare has cost AOL 7.1 million dollars…this prick is just lying like every one of these CEO’s whose pay is based on screwing workers…I, for one, am really, really tired of these assholes using their employees as scapegoats for their incompetence…when do they have to take some personal responsibility? Geez….
More republican lies about the ACA…
Well…I am laughing about the typical repub spin on the new CBO report that came out in the past couple of days that says, as a result of the law, there will eventually be 2 million less full time workers…and of course the repubs say it is the result of the law, that employers will be eliminating jobs because the ACA forces them to provide healthcare to their employees…but, of course, the repubs take the headline and try to turn it to political advantage when it says no such thing…what the report really says is that with independent health insurance available that is not tied to any employer, more people will say “go to hell” to bad employers that they have been tolerating just to get health insurance…and many of those people will be able to finally retire with insurance they can afford before Medicare. So, what to do the repubs have against freedom? Oh, they are okay with freedom if is the freedom of employers to screw with their employees who couldn’t get health insurance before the ACA, but they just hate the fact that the ACA has taken away some leverage from employers to do whatever they want…to keep wages low since they had their employees over the healthcare barrel…and now, that the needle has swung just a little back to normal, ordinary people, the repubs are going crazy…under the orders of their corporate masters, of course….geez…
Obamacare polls…
Well…after the bottom was reached in the polling on Obamacare a few weeks back, and after the website was fixed to where most users are now able to use it, the numbers have come back to where it has an almost even favorable/unfavorable rating…but that doesn’t stop the right from continuing to lie about the program and say that a great majority of the people in the US don’t like the law…one thing that I have to keep stressing to people is to go deeper into the numbers…while it is true that the numbers are even right now, there has always been 15-20 points of those in the disapproval column that disapprove because the law is not single payer and does not cut the insurance companies out completely. So, if you add even the low side of 15% back to the approval side of 46%, you get a good majority of people who approve of the law, although some of them hold their noses while doing it since it is better than the previous system. It is clear that the majority of people in the US, other than the tea party idiots, want the system changed and want it to be given a chance while improving the law as flaws surface…as things have been done since this country started…at least until the right wing infection of the repub party…geez…
Delusions and lies…
Well…just read an interesting article about the post mortem of the Virgina races that was done by one of the higher ups in the RNC and all I can say is that these folks really have gone over the line into delusions…what this idiot comes out and says is that the conventional wisdom that they lost the election because they were too far to the right is just wrong…if they had only talked more about taking way womens rights, about hating gays, and the ACA, they would have won in a landslide…no matter what the polls said…they were just not mean and assholish enough. The only thing I have to say to that is “please proceed” keep reminding people that you don’t care about anyone unless they are rich and white…people will just flock to that kind of message and vote you in for life. They just don’t get that the country is getting away from them…and with these changes, they can’t even beat a weak dem candidate for governor.
Oh, the lies part…just one more reason to understand what the repub party has become…they have set up a fake website in California and sent out official fliers on official stationary sending people to the fake website that is full of lies about the ACA that have all been debunked…and the taxpayers of Cali are footing the bill for this crap…I hope the repubs feel good when they convince people to not sign up for insurance and they either go bankrupt when a medical emergency happens or they die since they don’t get the care they need….what a bunch of absolute assholes….geez…
Another reason for single payer…
Well…looking outside and seeing it snowing has made me depressed so I thought I might just as well get into something else that depresses me….the shenanigans that the insurance companies are starting in response to the ACA….while before they could use pre-existing conditions to screw over people…now they have to get more creative to screw people over…just like when it was exposed that every major insurer had whole departments whose sole purpose was to deny claims. Now, they are trying some new stuff…like sending letters to people whose policies are granfathered under the law saying they have to cancel and choose a new policy…and then only offering them plans that are many times more than what they were paying while making sure they never mention the exchanges where they have to compete on price….or the short sighted ploy of leaving a state completely so they don’t have to compete on price and the collusion that comes with it…where more than one company leaves a market to ensure there is only one or two companies left to compete so they can raise the prices and feed at the government trough with the subsidies that are available to the individual purchaser. I do feel good that the conversation has started to come back to single payer, Medicare for all to cut these damn crooks out of the gravy train…maybe we should root for the law to fail so we can take the house back and then get single payer…geez…
Suzanne Summers is a “medical expert”?
Well…got another nice laugh on how far the Wall Street Journal has fallen since ole Rupert Murdoch took control of it a few years back by the events this week where they named the “Threes Company” star a medical expert for its editorial page. Yep, a hack actor who has spent the last twenty years hawking informercial crap to the American people is now qualified to critique Obamacare…what’s next? A puppy to critique the state of veterinary care in the US? This idiot goes on in her screed that healthcare in Canada is better for pets than it is for people…using fake “facts” about how long you have to wait and that doctors are becoming vets since they can make more money and that Obamacare is bad for the elderly here in the US even though they are covered under Medicare and have nothing to do with the ACA. Then she goes on to misquote both Lenin and Churchill (reading off one of the many right wing websites that have the quotes wrong) trying to make the point that healthcare is the path to controlling everyone. What a piece of crap the entire article is…who wants to listen to an idiot who thinks that when a woman goes through menopause, it is a signal for the body to create cancers and kill itself unless you buy the hormone supplements she is shilling….geez…
Not sure what to write about…
Well…as you can see…I started one wrong yesterday with an okay instead of well…and I still can’t think of anything to write about but that really should happen sometimes since I have done 2,600 of these…I did have an okay morning with getting a lot of things done including waxing the car…but now, I think I will just take it easy for an hour or so and just chill….it looks like the repubs are still searching for ways to end the ACA but all the dems have to do is say no and pin the government shutdown on them….since there is still a majority of the country that likes the law…and as more and more info gets out, they like it more…and the polls are saying that more than 80% of the country don’t want a shut down…so, I say let them own it…and bring on 2014…the repubs will be gone…geez…
ACA pricing doesn’t look good for the repubs…
Well…just a shorty on the data that is coming out of the developing pricing for the insurance exchanges…one estimate for a family of four making around 40K in Texas is that, after subsidies, they will pay around 50 bucks a month for a silver plan that covers more than any personal insurance that is even available in Texas right now. So, to the repubs I say “you guys are in deep, deep trouble” if you continue to try to make sure that no one can afford insurance…your time is just about up when people get the pleasant surprise of the rates under the ACA and it spreads like wildfire across this country…and, you are a bunch of immoral pricks…geez…
Trying to stay ahead…
Well…it has been a long day with trying to go across town and having it take an hour and a half and a quarter of a tank of gas…but, that’s not what this is about…it is just a short one about a really neat thing that is happening at repub town hall meetings…the idiot repubs are trying to run on and are proud of repealing the ACA….the problem is that the people they represent are having none of it…asking one rep in Florida to stop lying about the ACA and then putting him on the spot with what he would replace it with…nothing but fricking silence from the idiot….so, I think as people get to understand more and more of the benefits of the ACA…the repubs are going to be in trouble…can’t happen to a crappier bunch of folks…geez…