Sensible, affordable health care in America?

It can’t happen here, because in this country we consider greed a virtue above all else.

What the vast majority of Americans want – access to affordable healthcare – simply can’t be realized without ‘the government’ putting rational, perfectly reasonable profit caps on insurance companies, big pharma and mega-health care providers. But the elite will never allow common sense or human decency to get in the way of their outrageously high salaries and executive bonuses, or all those stocks and 401Ks. It’s the reason you never see such a thing discussed by the Democrats, much less the Republicans.

Because, guess what? Insurance companies are greedy. Quelle surprise!

Simply putting the brakes on their unfettered greed isn’t going to solve our problems. The pharmaceutical companies and health care providers will simply pass their greed onto insurance companies through higher premiums. Look at any other “civilized” nation, and you’ll see their public healthcare model is doing considerably better than the US system at far lower costs – and all have reasonable profit caps inherent in them. Not just in the cost of actual coverage, but on what the providers can make on profits.

So Trump hasn’t tackled the deficiencies of the ACA; his plan simply allows insurance companies once again to be as greedy as the rest of the pharmaceutical-industrial-complex. There is something singularly nauseating about listening to the 1% lecture us from their place of extreme privilege about what truly desperate people deserve and need.

Do Americans realize that Congressmen and the Senators have their own FREE government-subsidized healthcare coverage protecting them for the rest of their lives? Apparently not. Oh, and by the way: they can also legally use insider trading to buy and sell stocks on the stock market. Look it up.

The revolution is only going to happen after significant numbers of people watch their loved ones die for lack of treatment that could and should be affordable and readily available to everyone. Americans have been entirely too complacent for too long with the venal policies and corrupt practices of our public servants. If they don’t start serving us – the people – pretty soon, they’re going to be served in kind.

I continue to marvel at the craven stupidity of elected officials who refuse to grasp that their stubborn refusal to make any reasonable concessions – or indeed to behave like decent human beings – is virtually ensuring the coming storm. You’d think at some point Darwinian self-preservation would finally kick in…but their evil is only matched by their ignorance, unfortunately.

So if the innate human survival instinct isn’t activated in these sub-humans, the impulse of ‘survival of the fittest’ certainly will, and those who ignore the well-being of their constituents will be held responsible. Do they really need to have this point conveyed at the end of a pitchfork before it gets through?

Somehow nearly every other country has figured this out, and those that don’t have it can’t afford it because they’re too impoverished. It’s unacceptable that the wealthiest nation on earth continues to play dumb with people’s lives in order to allow a tiny cabal of insurance companies to profit from ordinary citizen’s illnesses and bad fortune.

What this latest insult basically comes down to is that Republicans don’t believe the American people have a right to their own tax dollars. Sure, we can squander billions on a bloated military; we can spend three million dollars for Agent Orange’s weekly breathers at his luxury resort; we can spend millions on eight separate Benghazi investigations. But spend tax dollars to save American taxpayers’ lives??? Ludicrous!

Average Americans aren’t entitled to use our own tax dollars to ensure that every American has access to decent healthcare. That’s only for the wealthy; and those poor souls need yet another huge tax break, you see. They need to push what remains of their miniscule tax burden onto the rest of us.

“This is what conservative healthcare looks like.” Paul Ryan

Shame on our ‘government’ for not doing the only just, fair, reasonable, and cost effective thing by nationalizing the healthcare system. We cannot continue to cobble together half-baked measures. Healthcare is a human right. Period.

The GOP’s Deathcare plan is the inevitable consequence of viewing people as dollar signs: treating sickness as a profit center and promoting the ethical vacuum of modern corporatist Republicanism at its worst. It was a pleasure to watch those morally bankrupt puppets of big business twist in the political winds as their new leader tweeted about how hard it all is. May they now choke on what they have wrought.