Reply To: Donald Trump

[Davis]

What does property law have to do with universal health care? Every western country has had problems with one social programming or another and yet they are still able to implement universal health care. You have an extremely skewed and biased view of it with your constant referl and use of “liberal” as a pejorative. Europe is full of right wing leaders quite conservative and etc they maintain health care systems of high quality and full access. Universal health care is not a liberal or conservative concept…it is an overwealmingly logical and obvious thing to create and implement. The only differences with liberals and conservatives are the question of allowing some private services in parallel with the universal system and whether to cover dental care and non-selective surgeries. Apart from these details…universal health care is virtually an untouchable right

What Obama pulled off was pathetic because both republicans and some democrats fought Obama kicking and screaming from the beginning to the very end and the meager system he did get through was a bastardised and extremely limited program. Obama care is NOT universal health care. It is health insurance subsidies…and this kind of half measure cannot possibly be successful without a continued nationalisation of health services. Yet the American narrative right now is so full of “universal health care will bring us 90% taxes and a communist government and free plastic surgery for teenage unemployed moms and 15 year waiting lists and a thousand other boogeymen. Of course…all you have to do is live in Canada or Denmark or Japan or Spain for a few months and see how much bullshit this right wing narrative is. Universal health care can only be pulled off when people are committed to it…in the mean time Obama tried to create a stepping stone…a crack in this bizarre hysterical fear of proper healthcare. It has insured millions of people which is an unqualified good thing…and it has screwed up some people’s own insurance (which is not a good thing). This sad compromise is the best Obama could do and it’s nothing short of a miracle that Obama even passed that through Congress.