Message #9839

[uselesslegs]

Because ultimately, Republicans (at least the libertarian minded Republicans), don't think the Government should be involved in Health care...at all.  I believe even the VA has been given the nod on the wishlist of private enterprise.

The problem is, none of these entities abilities to face rape all those new potential customers, will be addressed by legislation or any actions to curtail poor (or even inhumane) treatment (via policy for profit motives).

We always do this backwards.  We try to push something without instruction manuals or safe guards and then we act all surprised when it blows the fuck up.  The push towards Government getting totally out of the Health Care game, doesn't have anything in place to monitor or even curtail out of control costs as they relate to the economy and a citizens ability to partake.  If you think things are bad now...I can't imagine the literal feeding frenzy that will take place, and for how long, at the expense of the average American if Republicans get their way and push this notion into legislation.

 The *free market*, (as will be argued) DOES NOT weed out the shitty businesses that get their claws into our representatives, it never has.  Shitty businesses last for years and years before they take a nose dive.  That's years and years of mistreatment and misery, with quaint reminders that, "if you don't like it, take your business elsewhere."  This precludes 100's of millions of customers, going through a revolving door of finding out for themselves how horrid Corp A is...before the shitty corp entity exhausts it's sucker pool.  Years of shitty, crappy, horrible business is given a pass under the guise of the "free market" getting rid of shitty, crappy horrible businesses.  That's YEARS of fleecing and misery that are unfucking necessary...all in the name of a slow moving, surprisingly inflexible concept that enjoys survival and protection under an umbrella of ideology that defends it's right to exist, unfettered by ethics or the reality of real world fuckery.

In an Utopian world, the Free Market would have standards that weren't just ethereal or idealistic...they would be solidified practices and mandatory, with heavy HEAVY penalties for PURPOSELY betting against your fellow citizen and fucking them for profit.

There's not a REAL god damn thing in place that would stave off or stop business practices of Health Insurance from raping the average customer on a bonus inspired whim.  Contrary to popular rhetoric...the WORST thing we ever did/allowed was to make Health Insurance for profit.  You put the human condition, one of inevitable frailty and illness, against profit...and the human loses every time.  It's not a matter of if, it's when.