Politics: Supporting Obamacare

Remember when I said that I might do purely political posts in this blog? Remember when I said that I probably wouldn’t do it this summer? Well, I’m changing my mind and doing at least this one post in support of one of the greatest achievements of this millennia.

Why is there so much of a fight against Obamacare? Well, misinformation about it is rampart throughout the whole discussion about it. There seems to be this idea that millions have lost their health care coverage because of it. But is that true? I have yet to hear the story of one single person who lost their coverage because of Obamacare.

What is true that nobody talks about is that 45,000 people would die a year due to lack of health care coverage before Obamacare became law. If the law is repealed, that number could return with an additional 2,000 deaths a year. I read these numbers in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and could mail a copy to anyone who doubts it.

Millions being uninsured without Obamacare is going to happen if the law passes. If it doesn’t pass, then people will have a guaranteed form of coverage should all other options fail. If people did lose coverage because of Obamacare, than why couldn’t they get it instead? It’s not like one can be denied insurance that way.

One of the things that this new law before the senate would do is give the rich a tax cut. Do the rich really need a tax cut? Some say that the rich pay enough in taxes. This is true. They pay more taxes than the middle class. But it’s not like they pay so much in taxes that they are no longer rich. So why would they need a tax cut if it would just take money from the poor?

Something that opponents of Obamacare don’t seem to realize is that it really sucks to have a pre-existing condition when it comes to health care coverage. If I didn’t have autism, I wouldn’t have to worry about being denied coverage from any other insurance. I am only insured right now because Obamacare exists and can cover me.

What is socialism? You hear about it so often from the Republican’ts. They criticize anything that they label as socialism and they never tell you what socialism is. Let’s be honest: they don’t know. They just like complaining about things. They mention socialism as a problem such as socialized medicine taking over health care. But what is it and is it really bad?

Look at all the countries that have socialized medicine: England, Canada, Cuba, France, etc. Do people complain about health care coverage there? Republican’ts would have you believe that. But they haven’t. I heard that if you are in England, they laugh at the idea of one having to pay for birth control because they find that to be such a ridiculous concept. They seriously wonder why anyone would have to pay for birth control. Also, you can get free money with no strings attached there to pay for any medical bills that you might get but probably won’t. And when it comes to the international ranking of different countries health care systems, it is those with socialized medicine that rank much higher than the US does.

This takes us back to socialism and why people don’t understand it. Without socialism in this country, there wouldn’t be military, public schools, libraries, fire fighters, or post office workers. And if you don’t think that’s what socialism is, then you don’t know what it really is.

So many people talk about the rising premiums that have happened over Obamacare. If you repeal it, the problem of rising premiums would get worse, not better nor nonexistent. Premiums rose plenty long before Obamacare took effect. It seems that people merely used it as an excuse to not like it. It was like how it was over 30 years after the Cubs won the World Series before the curse of Billy Goat happened. They finally had an excuse for their problems until they managed to pull off a win against another cursed team.

The main problem that I hear about Obamacare is the line, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” So many people claim that line was a lie. Was it? With all this talk about how people lost their doctor because of Obamacare, you’d think that we’d see it in ads across TV stations of all the stories of people affected by this. But you don’t ever hear one single story of a person who lost their doctor or their coverage because of Obamacare. If I knew of one, then I’d be more likely to believe it. Otherwise, it is an alternative fact to me. So if you are reading this and knew someone who lost their doctor because of Obamacare, by all means, tell me about this by commenting on this post.

One of the most ironic things about the Republican’t fight to get rid of Obamacare is that John McCain couldn’t vote for it because he was in the hospital getting treatment. I really do wish the best for John McCain as I wouldn’t want anyone to die because of issues relating to their health care. That’s what makes the fight against Obamacare so ridiculous. It has always ever been about those with health care telling those without it that they shouldn’t have to have it. Every elected official who serves in Congress or the Senate has their own version of universal health care coverage. Should they really tell the rest of us that we shouldn’t have it too?

It seems that many people don’t feel that health care coverage is a right. Why? Why would any good natured person feel that way? John McCain thought that it should be a privilege. Well, isn’t he lucky that he’s privileged then? But if the rich don’t want to be hated by the poor, they should be able to help those less fortunate. Why would we want to live in a world where health care coverage isn’t a right? That’s not a world I want to live in. If health care coverage isn’t a right, then are you saying that only the rich can get sick and have problems? Last I checked, the poor were more likely to be sick and they would need coverage by the government if they can’t afford to pay for it with their own money. And try not to think of the poor as welfare scammers. Some people who can’t afford things aren’t even what some would call poor or be on welfare.

This leaves me with my final point of this post: If Obamacare is repealed, will you pay for my health care coverage? I doubt that I could afford all of whatever coverage I would need if I needed it which I would sooner or later (hopefully later). Of course, my death could wind up coming swift and be over so quickly that I wouldn’t know. But if I die because I can’t afford coverage, then you’d have to wonder why they repealed a law that would have given me the coverage and money that I would have needed to use. For all those against Obamacare, just remember that in case it is repealed and I can’t afford coverage. Surely you could help a person out since that’s what the conservatives say they care about is the everyman. You do care about the everyman, right? While I would rather live than die, I don’t think that I want to live in a world where Obamacare is repealed. It makes me hope I could find a great job and life somewhere in Canada.