Insofar as the cost of the administration's single payer plan is a major talking point for the Party of No, shouldn't somebody mention that health care costs shot up unmercifully when Medicare became mired in countless private insurance plans. Figures I've seen say the actual administrative cost of Medicare was about three percent; after the insurance industry cut into the pie, administrative costs of your health insurance coverage rose to beyond 20 percent. Anybody care to explain the difference?
But hearing the handsomely insured GOP group defend Americans' right to "freedom of choice" (except for abortion, of course) in selecting a plan free of the government, I am again reminded of the age-old saying that "Republicans are for a lot of things - but not very much."
As I have written time again, the Republicans had their chance with GOP presidents and congressional majorities to take up the challenge of our health care crisis - and did nothing. So why should we believe that they are our saviors now?
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The political and financial power in the South is apolitical; it professes the political creed of whatever party allows them to maintain their power. They supported the Civil War, i.e., the war of Northern Aggression and chanted the lyrics of the Democratic Party for decades. They opposed female suffrage and civil rights for all. So did the Republicans, so the South became Republican. And they will remain Republican because they want their health care to be better than that of the working class. In the South, labels change but not much else.
Some may still have designs on Ft. Sumter.
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